Jan C. van Ours

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Erasmus University Rotterdam

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Jan van Ours (1954) is professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also professorial fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, CentER Fellow and CEPR Fellow. Jan van Ours studied mining engineering at the Technical University in Delft and economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he also got his Ph.D. He has published in journals like American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Labor Economics, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Health Economics, and Health Economics. Currently he is managing editor of De Economist.

In 1996 he was awarded with the Hicks-Tinbergen medal of the European Economic Association (joint with Geert Ridder).

In 2009 he was President of the European Society of Population Economics. From 2011-2014 he was President of the European Association of Labour Economists.

Jan van Ours joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 1999.

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 1363
How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment
Rafael Lalive, Jan C. van Ours, Josef Zweimüller
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2006, 73 (4), 1009-1038
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1335
Effective Active Labor Market Policies
Jan Boone, Jan C. van Ours
published as 'Bringing Unemployed Back to Work: Effective Active Labor Market Policies' in: De Economist, 2007, 157 (3), 293-313
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1181
How Changes in Benefits Entitlement Affect Job-Finding: Lessons from the Slovenian "Experiment"
Jan C. van Ours, Milan Vodopivec
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24 (2), 351-378
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1000
Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behavior
Jan Boone, Abdolkarim Sadrieh, Jan C. van Ours
published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (8), 937-951
IZA Discussion Paper No. 898
Nonparametric Estimation of a Dependent Competing Risks Model for Unemployment Durations
Gerard J. van den Berg, Gijsbert van Lomwel, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Empirical Economics, 2008, 34 (3), 477-491
IZA Discussion Paper No. 649
From Parent to Child: Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands
Jan C. van Ours, Justus Veenman
published in: De Economist, 2004, 152 (4), 473-490
IZA Discussion Paper No. 627
Cyclical Fluctuations in Workplace Accidents
Jan Boone, Jan C. van Ours
revised version published as 'Are recessions good for workplace safety? ' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2006, 25 (6), 1069-1093
IZA Discussion Paper No. 527
The Locking-in Effect of Subsidized Jobs
Jan C. van Ours
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2004, 32 (1), 37-55
IZA Discussion Paper No. 473
A pint a day raises a man's pay; but smoking blows that gain away
Jan C. van Ours
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23 (5), 863-886
IZA Discussion Paper No. 469
The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment
Rafael Lalive, Jan C. van Ours, Josef Zweimüller
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (6), 1386-1417
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