21 Result(s)

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How Retirement Affects Mental Health, Cognitive Skills and Mortality; An Overview of Recent Empirical Evidence

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 effec...

Jan C. van Ours in De Economist (2022)

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Editorial Introduction—How Sports Can Help Economics

Ruud H. Koning, Jan C. van Ours in De Economist (2021)

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Seasonal Home Advantage in English Professional Football; 1974–2018

We study seasonal home advantage in English professional football over the period 1974 to 2018. We distinguish between absolute home advantage, enjoyed equally by all teams in a division, and relative home adv...

Thomas Peeters, Jan C. van Ours in De Economist (2021)

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The joy of lottery play: evidence from a field experiment

Buying lottery tickets is not a rational investment from a financial point of view. Yet, the majority of people participate at least once a year in a lottery. We conducted a field experiment to increase unders...

Martijn J. Burger, Martijn Hendriks, Emma Pleeging… in Experimental Economics (2020)

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A Note on Artificial Pitches and Home Advantage in Dutch Professional Football

In professional football there is an advantage of playing at home. In the Netherlands, in the Eredivisie, the top tier of professional football the majority of teams play their home matches on natural grass but t...

Jan C. van Ours in De Economist (2019)

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U.S. Immigration Reform and the Migration Dynamics of Mexican Males

The 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was directed at tackling the problem of growing unauthorized migration through legalization of unauthorized immigrants, increasing border security and sanc...

Khulan Altangerel, Jan C. van Ours in De Economist (2017)

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Effectiveness of In-Season Manager Changes in English Premier League Football

We analyze the performance effects of in-season manager changes in English Premier League football during the seasons 2000/2001–2014/2015. We find that some managerial changes are successful, while others are ...

Lucas M. Besters, Jan C. van Ours, Martin A. van Tuijl in De Economist (2016)

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Why is There a Spike in the Job Finding Rate at Benefit Exhaustion?

Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a “spike” in the job finding rate shortly before benefits are exhausted. Current theories explain this spike from workers’ behavior. ...

Jan Boone, Jan C. van Ours in De Economist (2012)

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Age, Wage and Productivity in Dutch Manufacturing

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e...

Jan C. van Ours, Lenny Stoeldraijer in De Economist (2011)

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How a Reduction of Standard Working Hours Affects Employment Dynamics

December 1, 1996 a new law was implemented in Portugal to gradually reduce the standard workweek from 44 to 40 h. We study how this mandatory reduction affected employment through job creation and job destruct...

Pedro S. Raposo, Jan C. Van Ours in De Economist (2010)

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Will You Still Need Me: When I’m 64?

For various reasons the relationship between age and productivity is a matter of policy concern. I present new empirical research showing how productivity is affected by age. I study age effects at the individ...

Jan C. Van Ours in De Economist (2009)

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Bringing Unemployed Back to Work: Effective Active Labor Market Policies

We present a theoretical analysis of different types of active labor market policies in the context of a search-matching model. We find that labor market training is effective in bringing down unemployment whi...

Jan Boone, Jan C. van Ours in De Economist (2009)

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Ranking Dutch Economists

Jan C. van Ours, Frederic Vermeulen in De Economist (2007)