Jan C. van Ours

Research Fellow

Erasmus School of Economics

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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 Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4509
How Effective Are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions? Looking Beyond Unemployment Exit
Patrick Arni, Rafael Lalive, Jan C. van Ours
revised version (including technical online appendix) published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (7), 1153–1178
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4264
Will You Still Need Me – When I'm 64?
Jan C. van Ours
published in: De Economist, 2009, 157(4), 441-460
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4079
How a Mandatory Activation Program Reduces Unemployment Durations: The Effects of Distance
Brian Krogh Graversen, Jan C. van Ours
published as 'An Activation Program as a Stick to Job Finding' in: Labour, 2011, 25 (2), 167 - 181
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3723
How Working Time Reduction Affects Employment and Earnings
Pedro Raposo, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (1), 61-63
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3308
How Interethnic Marriages Affect the Educational Attainment of Children: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Jan C. van Ours, Justus Veenman
published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 111-117
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3020
Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle
Alison L. Booth, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (526) , F77–F99
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2504
How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly: Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program
Brian Krogh Graversen, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (10-11), 2020-2035
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2211
Performance Related Pay and Labor Productivity
Anne C. Gielen, Marcel Kerkhofs, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 291-301
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2171
Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits Does Not Affect the Quality of Post-Unemployment Jobs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Jan C. van Ours, Milan Vodopivec
revised version published as 'Does reducing unemployment insurance generosity reduce job match quality?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (3-4), 684-695
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2165
Why Do Worker-Firm Matches Dissolve?
Anne C. Gielen, Jan C. van Ours
published as 'Layoffs, quits and wage negotiations' in: Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (2), 108-111
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