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Yao, Yuxin; Ours, Jan C. van - 2016

Our paper studies the effects of dialect-speaking on job characteristics of Dutch workers, in particular on their hourly wages. The unconditional difference in median hourly wages between standard Dutch speakers and dialect speakers is about 10.6% for males and 6.7% for females. If we take into...

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Country-specific goal-scoring in the "dying seconds" of international football matches

Ours, Jan C. van; Tuijl, Martin A. van - 2010

national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … Cup. We find that the national teams of Germany, England and the Netherlands are more likely than the three other national … teams to score in the last minute – including stoppage time. However, for Germans this comes at a cost. Germany is more …

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The effect of benefit sanctions on the duration of unemployment

Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002

This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a warning that a person is not complying with eligibility requirements and the effect of the actual enforcement of a...

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How interethnic marriages affect the educational attainment of children : evidence from a natural experiment

Ours, Jan C. van (contributor); Veenman, Justus (contributor) - 2008

The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent …

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Why do worker-firm matches dissolve?

Gielen, Anne C. (contributor); Ours, Jan C. van (contributor) - 2006

In a dynamic labor market worker-firm matches dissolve frequently causing workers to separate and firms to look for replacements. A separation may be initiated by the worker (a quit) or the firm (a layoff), or may result from a joint decision. A dissolution of a worker-firm match may be...

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Gielen, Anne C. (contributor); Kerkhofs, Marcel (contributor) - 2006

This paper uses information from a panel of Dutch firms to investigate the labor productivity effects of performance related pay (PRP). We find that PRP increases labor productivity at the firm level with about 9% and employment with about 5%. -- performance related pay ; labor productivity

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Part-time jobs : what women want?

Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2010

Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered … abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a transitional phase that will culminate in many women working full …

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How changes in unemployment benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment

Ours, Jan C. van; Tuit, Sander - 2010

We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until …

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Age, wage and productivity

Ours, Jan C. van; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...

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Market imperfections and firm-sponsored training

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2010

Recent human capital theories predict that labor market frictions and product market competition influence firm-sponsored training. Using matched worker-firm data from Dutch manufacturing, our paper empirically assesses the validity of these predictions. We find that a decrease in labor market...

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