This paper studies the causes and consequences of in-season changes of the headcoach of association football teams. We exploit data from the highest level of<br/>Dutch professional football during 14 successive seasons. An in-season change of<br/>the head-coach depends on recent match results and the...

This paper examines the effect of a change in drugs policy on the age of onset of<br/>cannabis use. We use 2012 survey data from the Czech Republic where in 2010 a<br/>law was introduced decriminalizing personal possession of small quantities of several illicit drugs, including cannabis. We estimate the...

Slovakia is one of the Central European countries in transformation from a centralised command system to a decentralised market economy. Along with the transition of the economy came unemployment. Other than before workers who lost their job did not find a new job immediately. This paper studies...

This paper uses a dataset collected among inhabitants of Amsterdam, to study whether wages of prime age male workers are affected by the use of cannabis and cocaine.The analysis shows that cocaine use and infrequent cannabis use do not affect wages.Frequent cannabis use has a negative wage...

Abstract Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively search for a job when they reached the age of 57.5. We study how this exemption affected the job finding rates of the recipients involved. We find evidence that the job...

This paper investigates how a mandatory activation program in Denmark affects the job finding rate of unemployed workers.The activation program was introduced in an experimental setting where about half of the workers who became unemployed in the period from November 2005 to March 2006 were...