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Unhappiness and job finding
Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2012
unhappy and the need for activation policies. -- happiness ; unemployment duration …
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Unhappiness and job finding
Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2012
unhappy and the need for activation policies. -- Happiness ; unemployment duration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009541833
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Unhappiness and Job Finding
Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at thesame time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work morequickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there isindeed such a puzzle. First, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486963
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The joy of lottery play : evidence from a field experiment
Burger, Martijn J.; Hendriks, Martijn; Pleeging, Emma; … - 2018
We conducted a field experiment to increase our understanding of lottery participation. Using representative data for the Netherlands, we find that lottery participation increased the happiness of participants before the draw. Winning a small prize had no effect on happiness. Our results...
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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 working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933940
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Hours of work and gender identity : does part-time work make the family happier?
Booth, Alison L. (contributor); Ours, Jan C. van (contributor) - 2005
Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey. Our analysis indicates that part-time women are more satisfied with working hours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003222511
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Unhappiness and Job Finding
Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there is indeed such a puzzle. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646313
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Unhappiness and Job Finding
Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there is indeed such a puzzle. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541302
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Cyclical fluctuations in workplace accidents
Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C. van - 2002
fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing unemployment rate has a low (reported) workplace accident rate. The … inversely related to both the level of unemployment and the change in unemployment. Furthermore, fatal accident rated do not …
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Revisiting Okun's relationship
Dixon, Robert J.; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2016
Our paper revisits Okun's relationship between observed unemployment rates and output gaps. We include in the … unemployment rate) over time. The Okun coefficient is not only different for young, prime-age and older workers, it decreases with … reducing the overall unemployment rate, it will also have the distributional effect of lowering youth unemployment. …
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