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Hours of Work and Gender Identity : Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?

van Ours, Jan C. - 2006

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...

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Part-time jobs: what women want?

Booth, Alison L.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2010

Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered … abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a transitional phase that will culminate in many women working full …

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Punitive Sanctions and the Transition Rate from Welfare to Work

van den Berg, Gerard J.; van der Klaauw, Bas; van Ours, … - 2010

In The Netherlands, the average exit rate out of welfare is dramatically low. Most welfare recipients have to comply … from welfare to work using a unique set of rich administrative data on welfare recipients in The Netherlands. We find that …

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The Engine Immobilizer : A Non-Starter for Car Thieves

van Ours, Jan C. - 2013

application of the security device reduced the probability of car theft by an estimated 50 percent on average in the Netherlands …

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The Engine Immobilizer : A Non-Starter for Car Thieves

van Ours, Jan C. - 2013

application of the security device reduced the probability of car theft by an estimated 50 percent on average in the Netherlands …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088454

Job Searchers, Job Matches and the Elasticity of Matching

Broersma, L.; van Ours, Jan C. - 1999

This paper stresses the importance of a specification of the matching function in which the measure of job matches corresponds to the measure of job searchers. In many empirical studies on the matching function this requirement has not been fulfilled because it is difficult to find information...

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On the Employment Effects of Part-Time Labor

van Lomwel, A. Gijsbert C.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2004

The Netherlands experienced a major increase in the number of jobs over the past decade.We show that the spectacular …

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New Facts About Factor-Demand Dynamics : Employment, Jobs, and Workers

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1994

We provide a unified discussion of the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the number of jobs at the level of the firm. Using the only available set of data (a nationally representative sample of Dutch firms in 1988 and 1990) we discover that: 1) Nearly half of...

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Leaving 'Hotel California' : How Incentives Affect Flows of Benefit Recipients in the Netherlands

van Ours, Jan C. - 2006

This paper discusses developments in the Netherlands concerning unemployment insurance, unemployment assistance and …

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A Pint a Day Raises a Man's Pay; But Smoking Blows that Gain Away

van Ours, Jan C. - 2021

Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a negative wage effect of about 10% while the use of alcohol has a …

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