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Part-Time Jobs: What Women Want?
Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10008529127
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Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle
Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2007
Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005587674
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Gender wage differentials in a competitive labor market : the household interaction effect
Francois, Patrick; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000
We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap which turns on the interaction between men and women in … industry of workers and does so in a competitive labor market where there exist no inherent gender differences. We test our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339096
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Part-time jobs : what women want?
Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2010
; satisfaction ; working hours ; gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933940
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Early cannabis use and school to work transition of young men
Williams, Jenny; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017
We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110588
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Early cannabis use and school to work transition of young men
Williams, Jenny; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017
We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607269
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Early cannabis use and school to work transition of young men
Williams, Jenny; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017
We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583527
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Why is there a Spike in the Job Finding Rate at Benefit Exhaustion?
Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C. van - CESifo - 2009
Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a “spike” in the job finding rate shortly … jobs are permanent. We use a dataset on Slovenian unemployment spells to test this prediction and find supporting evidence …. We conclude that the spike in the job finding rate suggests that workers exploit unemployment insurance benefits for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572564
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Why Is There a Spike in the Job Finding Rate at Benefit Exhaustion?
Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a "spike" in the job finding rate shortly … jobs are permanent. We use a dataset on Slovenian unemployment spells to test this prediction and find supporting evidence …. We conclude that the spike in the job finding rate suggests that workers exploit unemployment insurance benefits for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527302
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Gender Wage Differentials in a Competitive Labor Market: The Household Interaction Effect
Francois, Patrick; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap which turns on the interaction between men and women in … industry of workers and does so in a competitive labor market where there exist no inherent gender differences. We test our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566838