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Jan C. van Ours
Jan C. van Ours
Research Fellow
Erasmus School of Economics
vanours@ese.eur.nl External Homepage CV

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.

IZA Publications

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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 401
Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions
Jan Boone, Peter Fredriksson, Bertil Holmlund, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (518), 399-421
IZA Discussion Paper No. 399
Using Employer Hiring Behavior to Test the Educational Signaling Hypothesis
James Albrecht, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2006, 108 (3), 361-372
IZA Discussion Paper No. 297
The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in The Netherlands
Jan C. van Ours, Justus Veenman
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (4), 739-753
IZA Discussion Paper No. 202
Gender Wage Differentials in a Competitive Labor Market: The Household Interaction Effect
Patrick Francois, Jan C. van Ours
IZA Discussion Paper No. 149
The Impact of Active Labor Market Programs and Benefit Entitlement Rules on the Duration of Unemployment
Rafael Lalive, Jan C. van Ours, Josef Zweimüller
published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (525), 235–257
IZA Discussion Paper No. 147
Does the Recent Success of Some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates Lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reform?
Michèle Belot, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (4), 621-642
IZA Discussion Paper No. 121
Do Active Labor Market Policies Help Unemployed Workers to Find and Keep Regular Jobs?
Jan C. van Ours
published in: Michael Lechner and Friedhelm Pfeiffer (eds.), Econometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies, Physica-Verlag (2001), 125-152
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