Jan C Van Ours
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1089693 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jan C Van Ours |
| PRENOMES | Jan C |
| SOBRENOME | Van Ours |
| ASSINATURA | VAN OURS J C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tilburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0144-9956 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 333 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
High temperatures and workplace injuries
Non-transitive patterns in sports match outcomes
Sports betting markets share similarities with traditional financial markets. However, they are more accessible for empirical research thanks to availability of high-quality data. As a result, they often serve as a field laboratory for studying financial markets. This study examines 25 seasons of English Premier League matches, revealing consistent nontransitive patterns in match outcomes among various triads (groups of three clubs). These empiri…
Lifting up the lives of extremely disadvantaged youth
Outcome bias in managerial decisions
Consumer Perceptions Matter
In 1983 England’s fifth-tier football competition introduced a two-points-for-a-home-win and three-points-for-an-away-win reward system. This system was abolished after three seasons. The anomalous point system may have been introduced to reduce home advantage but the reasons are not fully clear and neither are the reasons for abolishing the system shortly after its introduction. We find that the new point system did not affect match outcomes but…
Delinquency, Arrest and Early School Leaving
Boys typically initiate delinquent behaviour during their teenage years, and many go on to be arrested. We show that engaging in delinquency and being arrested in youth are each associated with early school leaving. The effect of delinquency on school leaving is largely driven by crimes that produce a monetary return, and the increase in school leaving is greater when onset of these types of crime, and arrest, occur at younger ages. The sizeable …
Do transitions in and out of homelessness relate to mental health episodes? A longitudinal analysis in an extremely disadvantaged population
How outcome uncertainty, loss aversion and team quality affect stadium attendance in Dutch professional football
Subjective Well-being and Partnership Dynamics
We analyze Dutch panel data to investigate whether partnership has a causal effect on subjective well-being. As in previous studies, we find that, on average, being in a partnership improves well-being. Well-being gains of marriage are larger than those of cohabitation. The well-being effects of partnership formation and disruption are symmetric. We also find that marriage improves well-being for both younger and older cohorts, whereas cohabitati…
Labour Supply Effects of Winning a Lottery
Our article investigates how winning a substantial lottery prize affects labour supply. Analysing data from Dutch State Lottery winners, we find that winning a lottery prize reduces labour earnings in the year of the winning, as well as in the years after the winning. This suggests that winning a lottery prize makes one work fewer hours. The effects are small but statistically significant. We do not find a significant effect of lottery prizes on …
Cannabis decriminalization and the age of onset of cannabis use
How to stimulate single mothers on welfare to find a job
We present the results from a policy experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to enter the labor market and increase their work experience. The aim of the policy was not per se for single mothers to leave welfare completely but to encourage them to find a job if only a part-time job. Two policy instruments were introduced: an earnings disregard and job creation. The experiment was performed at the municipality level in the Ne…
The Engine Immobiliser
We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a policy targeted at strengthening victim precaution. Regulation made application of the electronic engine immobiliser mandatory for all new cars sold within the European Union. We exploit the regulation as source of exogenous variation in use of the anti-theft device. The device reduced car theft by an estimated 40%, accounting for both the protective effect on cars with the device and the d…
From substance use to homelessness or vice versa
Unhappiness and Job Finding
It is puzzling that people feel unhappy when they become unemployed, while simultaneously active labour market policies are needed to bring them back to work. We investigate this using GSOEP data. We find that nearly half of the unemployed do not experience a drop in happiness, which might explain why activation is sometimes needed. Furthermore, even though unhappy unemployed search more actively for a job, it does not speed up their job finding.…
How Immigrant Children Affect the Academic Achievement of Native Dutch Children
In this article, we analyse how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterise educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills and science skills. Our results suggest that Dutch students face a worse learning environment when they are studying with more immigrant students in the classr…
Part-time jobs
Part-time jobs are common among partnered women in many countries. There are two opposing views on the efficiency implications of so many women working part-time. The negative view is that part-time jobs imply wastage of resources and underutilization of investments in human capital since many part-time working women are highly educated. The positive view is that, without the existence of part-time jobs, female labor force participation would be …
Does Regulation of Built‐in Security Reduce Crime? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We provide evidence that large‐scale government intervention in the use of self‐protective measures lowers crime. Since 1999, all new‐built homes in the Netherlands have to have burglary‐proof windows and doors. We find the regulatory change to have reduced burglary in new‐built homes from 1.1 to 0.8% annually, a reduction of 26%. Even though the regulation of built‐in security does not target preventative measures at homes that are most at risk,…
Equilibrium unemployment and the duration of unemployment benefits
How performance related pay affects productivity and employment
This paper uses information from a panel of Dutch firms to investigate the labor productivity effects of performance related pay (PRP). We find that PRP increases productivity at the firm level with 9% and employment growth with 5
Hours of Work and Gender Identity
Taking into account interdependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part‐time work and family wellbeing. We use panel data from the Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. We find that part‐time women are more satisfied with working hours than full‐time women, and that women's life satisfaction is increased if their partners work full‐time. Male partners' life satisfaction is unaffected by thei…
Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness
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 Survey. Men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how many hours they wo…
The Impact of Active Labour Market Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Switzerland
This article evaluates the effects of Swiss active labour market programmes on the job chances of unemployed workers. The main innovation is a comparison of two important dynamic evaluation estimators: the 'matching' estimator and the 'timing-of-events' estimator. We find that both estimators generate different treatment effects. According to the matching estimator temporary subsidised jobs shorten unemployment duration whereas training programme…
Welfare‐Improving Employment Protection
This paper derives new results on the welfare effects of employment protection. Using data from 17 OECD countries, we show that there exists an inverse U‐shape relationship between employment protection and economic growth. Using a simple theoretical model with non‐contractible specific investments, we show that over some range increasing employment protection does indeed raise welfare. We also show that the optimal level of employment protection…
Modeling Financial Incentives to Get the Unemployed Back to Work
We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job search guidelines - affect unemployment. We find that benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across-the-board reduction in the replacement rate, for a given loss in welfare for the unemployed. We decompose the effects of a sanction system into micro, crowding-out, spillover, and tax effects.
Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness
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 Survey. Men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how many hours they wo…
The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Sanctions on the Transition Rate from Unemployment to Employment
Sanctions or punitive benefits reductions are increasingly used as a tool to enforce compliance of unemployment insurance claimants with search requirements. This article analyses sanctions using a unique administrative data set of individuals who started collecting unemployment insurance in the Netherlands in 1992. After correction for selectivity in the imposition of sanctions, we find that sanctions substantially raise individual re-employment…
The educational attainment of second-generation immigrants in The Netherland
How Immigrant Children Affect the Academic Achievement of Native Dutch Children
In this article, we analyse how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterise educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills and science skills. Our results suggest that Dutch students face a worse learning environment when they are studying with more immigrant students in the classr…
Hours of Work and Gender Identity
Taking into account interdependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part‐time work and family wellbeing. We use panel data from the Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. We find that part‐time women are more satisfied with working hours than full‐time women, and that women's life satisfaction is increased if their partners work full‐time. Male partners' life satisfaction is unaffected by thei…
Part-time jobs
Part-time jobs are common among partnered women in many countries. There are two opposing views on the efficiency implications of so many women working part-time. The negative view is that part-time jobs imply wastage of resources and underutilization of investments in human capital since many part-time working women are highly educated. The positive view is that, without the existence of part-time jobs, female labor force participation would be …
Does Regulation of Built‐in Security Reduce Crime? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We provide evidence that large‐scale government intervention in the use of self‐protective measures lowers crime. Since 1999, all new‐built homes in the Netherlands have to have burglary‐proof windows and doors. We find the regulatory change to have reduced burglary in new‐built homes from 1.1 to 0.8% annually, a reduction of 26%. Even though the regulation of built‐in security does not target preventative measures at homes that are most at risk,…
From substance use to homelessness or vice versa
Welfare‐Improving Employment Protection
This paper derives new results on the welfare effects of employment protection. Using data from 17 OECD countries, we show that there exists an inverse U‐shape relationship between employment protection and economic growth. Using a simple theoretical model with non‐contractible specific investments, we show that over some range increasing employment protection does indeed raise welfare. We also show that the optimal level of employment protection…
The Price Elasticity of Hard Drugs
At the beginning of this century, the Dutch government controlled the opium market in the Dutch East Indies--nowadays Indonesia--for several decades. This state monopoly was called the opiumregie. Using information gathered during the opiumregie, this paper estimates price elasticities of opium consumption. It appears that short-term price elasticities of opium use are about -0.7. Long-term price elasticities are about -1.0. Copyright 1995 by Uni…
Unemployment Dynamics and Duration Dependence in France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
This paper analyses unemployment dynamics in the French, Dutch and UK labour market. It presents a method to distinguish between the effects of duration dependence and unobserved heterogeneity on the exit rate out of unemployment. It turns out that for British male unemployed there is strong genuine negative duration dependence. For French unemployed there is no strong duration dependence during the first year of unemployment, while for Dutch une…
The Impact of Active Labour Market Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Switzerland
This article evaluates the effects of Swiss active labour market programmes on the job chances of unemployed workers. The main innovation is a comparison of two important dynamic evaluation estimators: the 'matching' estimator and the 'timing-of-events' estimator. We find that both estimators generate different treatment effects. According to the matching estimator temporary subsidised jobs shorten unemployment duration whereas training programme…
Subjective Well-being and Partnership Dynamics
We analyze Dutch panel data to investigate whether partnership has a causal effect on subjective well-being. As in previous studies, we find that, on average, being in a partnership improves well-being. Well-being gains of marriage are larger than those of cohabitation. The well-being effects of partnership formation and disruption are symmetric. We also find that marriage improves well-being for both younger and older cohorts, whereas cohabitati…
Labour Supply Effects of Winning a Lottery
Our article investigates how winning a substantial lottery prize affects labour supply. Analysing data from Dutch State Lottery winners, we find that winning a lottery prize reduces labour earnings in the year of the winning, as well as in the years after the winning. This suggests that winning a lottery prize makes one work fewer hours. The effects are small but statistically significant. We do not find a significant effect of lottery prizes on …
How performance related pay affects productivity and employment
This paper uses information from a panel of Dutch firms to investigate the labor productivity effects of performance related pay (PRP). We find that PRP increases productivity at the firm level with 9% and employment growth with 5
The Engine Immobiliser
We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a policy targeted at strengthening victim precaution. Regulation made application of the electronic engine immobiliser mandatory for all new cars sold within the European Union. We exploit the regulation as source of exogenous variation in use of the anti-theft device. The device reduced car theft by an estimated 40%, accounting for both the protective effect on cars with the device and the d…
Do transitions in and out of homelessness relate to mental health episodes? A longitudinal analysis in an extremely disadvantaged population
The Effects of Government Policy on Drug Use
We study a period of Javanese history when the consumption of opium was legal, but the supply of it was undergoing substantial institutional transformation. Through most of the nineteenth century the opium trade was organized into a system of “revenue farms,” which were privately owned local monopolies that bought raw opium from the government, refined it, and sold it to consumers. After 1893 this system was replaced by a government monopoly, the…
Unhappiness and Job Finding
It is puzzling that people feel unhappy when they become unemployed, while simultaneously active labour market policies are needed to bring them back to work. We investigate this using GSOEP data. We find that nearly half of the unemployed do not experience a drop in happiness, which might explain why activation is sometimes needed. Furthermore, even though unhappy unemployed search more actively for a job, it does not speed up their job finding.…
Do stepping-stone jobs exist? Early career paths in the medical profession
Matching Unemployment and Vacancies in Regional Labor Markets
How outcome uncertainty, loss aversion and team quality affect stadium attendance in Dutch professional football
How to stimulate single mothers on welfare to find a job
We present the results from a policy experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to enter the labor market and increase their work experience. The aim of the policy was not per se for single mothers to leave welfare completely but to encourage them to find a job if only a part-time job. Two policy instruments were introduced: an earnings disregard and job creation. The experiment was performed at the municipality level in the Ne…
Equilibrium unemployment and the duration of unemployment benefits
Duration dependence and heterogeneity in French youth unemployment durations
Matching Unemployment and Vacancies in Regional Labor Markets
Unemployment Dynamics and Duration Dependence in France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
This paper analyses unemployment dynamics in the French, Dutch and UK labour market. It presents a method to distinguish between the effects of duration dependence and unobserved heterogeneity on the exit rate out of unemployment. It turns out that for British male unemployed there is strong genuine negative duration dependence. For French unemployed there is no strong duration dependence during the first year of unemployment, while for Dutch une…
The Price Elasticity of Hard Drugs
At the beginning of this century, the Dutch government controlled the opium market in the Dutch East Indies--nowadays Indonesia--for several decades. This state monopoly was called the opiumregie. Using information gathered during the opiumregie, this paper estimates price elasticities of opium consumption. It appears that short-term price elasticities of opium use are about -0.7. Long-term price elasticities are about -1.0. Copyright 1995 by Uni…
On the Detection of State Dependence Using Aggregate Outflow Data
Journal Article On the Detection of State Dependence Using Aggregate Outflow Data: Comments on Previous Studies Get access Gerard van den Berg, Gerard van den Berg Free University Amsterdam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jan van Ours Jan van Ours Tilburg University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 108, Issue 450, 1 September 1998, Pages …
Duration dependence and heterogeneity in French youth unemployment durations
Why Has Unemployment in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom Fallen So Much
Steve Nickell, Jan van Ours, Why Has Unemployment in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom Fallen So Much?, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 26, Supplement: Structural Aspects of Unemployment in Canada (Jul., 2000), pp. S201-S220
Business Cycles and Compositional Variation in U.S. Unemployment
In this article, we study U.S. unemployment dynamics using grouped unemployment data from the Current Population Survey over the period 1968–1992. We estimate a model that traces variation in these unemployment data, both over time and between demographic groups, back to the underlying variation in the inflow and the outflow. In turn, we model the outflow as a transition process in which we allow the exit probabilities to depend on calendar time,…
The Effects of Government Policy on Drug Use
We study a period of Javanese history when the consumption of opium was legal, but the supply of it was undergoing substantial institutional transformation. Through most of the nineteenth century the opium trade was organized into a system of “revenue farms,” which were privately owned local monopolies that bought raw opium from the government, refined it, and sold it to consumers. After 1893 this system was replaced by a government monopoly, the…
Drug Use and Drug Policy
Early in the twentieth century the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) had a government monopoly on the import, refining, and retailing of opium. There were regional differences in opium policy ranging from areas with prohibition to areas where opium use was hardly restricted. We analyze 1930 data from administrative files and find that a strict opium policy was implemented in areas in which opium use among indigenous users was low anyway. …
Do stepping-stone jobs exist? Early career paths in the medical profession
The Effects of Government Policy on Drug Use Reconsidered
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The educational attainment of second-generation immigrants in The Netherland
The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Sanctions on the Transition Rate from Unemployment to Employment
Sanctions or punitive benefits reductions are increasingly used as a tool to enforce compliance of unemployment insurance claimants with search requirements. This article analyses sanctions using a unique administrative data set of individuals who started collecting unemployment insurance in the Netherlands in 1992. After correction for selectivity in the imposition of sanctions, we find that sanctions substantially raise individual re-employment…
Modeling Financial Incentives to Get the Unemployed Back to Work
We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job search guidelines - affect unemployment. We find that benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across-the-board reduction in the replacement rate, for a given loss in welfare for the unemployed. We decompose the effects of a sanction system into micro, crowding-out, spillover, and tax effects.
Welfare‐Improving Employment Protection
This paper derives new results on the welfare effects of employment protection. Using data from 17 OECD countries, we show that there exists an inverse U‐shape relationship between employment protection and economic growth. Using a simple theoretical model with non‐contractible specific investments, we show that over some range increasing employment protection does indeed raise welfare. We also show that the optimal level of employment protection…
Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness
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 Survey. Men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how many hours they wo…
The Impact of Active Labour Market Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Switzerland
This article evaluates the effects of Swiss active labour market programmes on the job chances of unemployed workers. The main innovation is a comparison of two important dynamic evaluation estimators: the 'matching' estimator and the 'timing-of-events' estimator. We find that both estimators generate different treatment effects. According to the matching estimator temporary subsidised jobs shorten unemployment duration whereas training programme…
How performance related pay affects productivity and employment
This paper uses information from a panel of Dutch firms to investigate the labor productivity effects of performance related pay (PRP). We find that PRP increases productivity at the firm level with 9% and employment growth with 5
Hours of Work and Gender Identity
Taking into account interdependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part‐time work and family wellbeing. We use panel data from the Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. We find that part‐time women are more satisfied with working hours than full‐time women, and that women's life satisfaction is increased if their partners work full‐time. Male partners' life satisfaction is unaffected by thei…
Equilibrium unemployment and the duration of unemployment benefits
Does Regulation of Built‐in Security Reduce Crime? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We provide evidence that large‐scale government intervention in the use of self‐protective measures lowers crime. Since 1999, all new‐built homes in the Netherlands have to have burglary‐proof windows and doors. We find the regulatory change to have reduced burglary in new‐built homes from 1.1 to 0.8% annually, a reduction of 26%. Even though the regulation of built‐in security does not target preventative measures at homes that are most at risk,…
Part-time jobs
Part-time jobs are common among partnered women in many countries. There are two opposing views on the efficiency implications of so many women working part-time. The negative view is that part-time jobs imply wastage of resources and underutilization of investments in human capital since many part-time working women are highly educated. The positive view is that, without the existence of part-time jobs, female labor force participation would be …
How Immigrant Children Affect the Academic Achievement of Native Dutch Children
In this article, we analyse how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us to characterise educational attainment in terms of reading literacy, mathematical skills and science skills. Our results suggest that Dutch students face a worse learning environment when they are studying with more immigrant students in the classr…
Unhappiness and Job Finding
It is puzzling that people feel unhappy when they become unemployed, while simultaneously active labour market policies are needed to bring them back to work. We investigate this using GSOEP data. We find that nearly half of the unemployed do not experience a drop in happiness, which might explain why activation is sometimes needed. Furthermore, even though unhappy unemployed search more actively for a job, it does not speed up their job finding.…
From substance use to homelessness or vice versa
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