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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; 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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How working time reduction affects employment and earnings

Raposo, Pedro S. (contributor); Ours, Jan C. van (contributor) - 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 - 2009

Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a spikeʺ 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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Why is there a spike in the job finding rate at benefit exhaustion?

Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C. van - 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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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...

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Labor supply effects of winning a lottery

Picchio, Matteo; Suetens, Sigrid; Ours, Jan C. van - 2015

This paper investigates how winning a substantial lottery prize affects labor supply. Analyzing data from Dutch State Lottery winners, we find that earnings are affected but not employment. Lottery prize winners reduce their hours of work but they are not very likely to withdraw from the labor...

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