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Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019

We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heterogeneous by gender and marital status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects...

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The Mental Health Effects of Retirement

Picchio, Matteo - 2019

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The mental health effects of retirement

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019

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The mental health effects of retirement

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019

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The mental health effects of retirement

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019

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How retirement affects mental health, cognitive skills and mortality; an overview of recent empirical evidence

Ours, Jan C. van - 2022

Retiring is an individual labor market transition that affects the personal life of the workers involved and sometimes the life of their partners. This paper presents an overview of recent studies on the effects of retirement on mental health, cognitive ability and mortality. The results are all...

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Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness:The Part-time Work Puzzle

Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-timework and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account forinterdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the BritishHousehold Panel Survey...

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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...

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How Working Time Reduction Affects Employment and Earnings

Raposo, Pedro; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

December 1, 1996 Portugal introduced a new law on working hours which gradually reduced the standard workweek from 44 hours to 40 hours. We study how this mandatory working hours reduction affected employment and earnings of workers involved. We find for workers who were affected by the new law...

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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 …

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