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PROF JAN VAN OURS



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Organization: Economics
Position: PROFESSORIAL FELLOW
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Homepage: http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/who/profile.cfm?sid=514
Work: 8344 9733
Fax: 8344 6899
Room: 638
Level: 06
Building: Economics And Commerce
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Mining Engineering Delft University of Technology 31-Dec-1977
Masters of Economics Erasmus University Rotterdam 31-Dec-1982

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Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Why parents worry: Initiation into cannabis use by youth and their educational attainment


    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Health Economics
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 132-142
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  • Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-time work make the family happier?
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Economica
    Volume: 76
    Issue: 301
    Page numbers: 176-196
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Publications in 2008

Books

  • The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Princeton University Press(Princeton)
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Journal Articles

  • Nonparametric estimation of a dependent competing risks mode for unemployment durations

     


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Empirical Economics
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 477-491
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  • When do children read books?


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Education Economics
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 313-328
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  • Activating unemployed workers works; experimental evidence from Denmark
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Economics Letters
    Volume: 100
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 308-310
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  • Does Reducing Unemployment Insurance Generosity Reduce Job Match Quality?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Public Economics
    Volume: 92
    Page numbers: 684-695
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  • How to help unemployed find jobs quickly; experimental evidence from a mandatory activation program
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Public Economics
    Volume: 92
    Page numbers: 2020-2035
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  • Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle
    Year: 2008
    Journal: The Economic Journal
    Volume: 118
    Page numbers: F77-F99
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  • The impact of active labor market programs on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland
    Year: 2008
    Journal: The Economic Journal
    Volume: 118
    Page numbers: 235-257
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Optimal unemployment insurance with monitoring and sanctions


    Year: 2007
    Journal: The Economic Journal
    Volume: 117
    Page numbers: 399-421
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  • The effect of cannabis use on wages of prime age males


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
    Volume: 69
    Page numbers: 619-634
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  • Cannabis prices and dynamics of cannabis use
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Health Economics
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 578-596
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  • Cannabis use when it's legal
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Addictive Behaviors
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 1441-1450
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  • Compulsion in active labour market programmes
    Year: 2007
    Journal: National Institute Economic Review
    Volume: 202
    Page numbers: 67-78
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  • How to organize a sequential auction; results of a natural experiment by Christie's
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Oxford Economic Papers
    Volume: 59
    Page numbers: 1-15
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  • Ranking Dutch economists
    Year: 2007
    Journal: De Economist
    Volume: 155
    Page numbers: 469-487
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  • Welfare Improving Employment Protection
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Economica
    Volume: 74
    Page numbers: 381-396
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Why Parents Worry: Cannabis Use by Youth and Their Educational Attainment
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 36th Australian Conference of Economists
    Conference Publication: Australian Conference of Economists Proceedings
    Page numbers: 1-48
    Publisher: Economic Society of Australia
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Reports

  • Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 1000
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Why Parents Worry: Initiation into Cannabis Use by Youth and Their Educational Attainment
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 1013
    Publisher: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Has the Dutch miracle come to an end?
    Year: 2006
    Book: Structural Unemployment in Western Europe: Reasons and Remedies
    Publisher: MIT Press(Cambridge)
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  • The Economics of Books
    Year: 2006
    Book: Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture
    Publisher: Elsevier(Amsterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • On the economics of illicit drugs


    Year: 2006
    Journal: De Economist
    Volume: 154
    Page numbers: 483-490
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  • Age of immigration and educational attainment of immigrants
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Economics Letters
    Volume: 90
    Page numbers: 310-316
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  • Age-specific cyclical effects in job reallocation and labor mobility
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Labour Economics
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 493-504
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  • Are recessions good for workplace safety?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Health Economics
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1069-1093
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  • Cannabis, cocaine and jobs
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Applied Econometrics
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 897-917
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  • Dynamics in the use of drugs
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Health Economics
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 1283-1294
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  • How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The Review of Economic Studies
    Volume: 73
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1009-1038
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  • How shortening the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the duration of unemployment
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Labor Economics
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 351-378
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  • Leaving "Hotel California": How incentives affect flows of benefits in the Netherlands
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung
    Volume: 75
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 186-207
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  • Modeling financial incentives to get unemployed back to work
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
    Volume: 162
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 227-252
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  • Using employer hiring behavior to test the educational signaling hypothesis
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Scandinavian Journal of Economics
    Volume: 108
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 361-372
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Cannabis prices and dynamics of cannabis use
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 35th Australian Conference of Economists 2006: Economic Society of Australia
    Conference Publication: 35th Australian Conference of Economists 2006: Economic Society of Australia
    Page numbers: 1-42
    Publisher: Economic Society of Australia
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • The Netherlands; old immigrants - young immigrant country


    Year: 2005
    Book: European Migration: What do we know?
    Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Journal Articles

  • Ecstasy and cocaine; patterns use among prime age individuals in Amsterdam
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Addictive Behaviors
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1468-1473
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  • On the employment effects of part-time labor
    Year: 2005
    Journal: De Economist
    Volume: 153
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 451-460
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  • The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Sanctions on the Transition rate from Unemployment to Employment
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The Economic Journal
    Volume: 115
    Page numbers: 602-630
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  • The effect of benefit sanctions on the duration of unemployment
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of the European Economic Association
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: 1386-1417
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • A pint a day raises a man's pay; but smoking blows that gain away


    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Health Economics
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 863-886
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  • Punitive sanctions and the transition rate from welfare to work


    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Labor Economics
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 211-241
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  • Does the recent success of some OECD countries in lowering their unemployment rates lie in the clever design of their labor market reforms?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Oxford Economic Papers
    Volume: 56
    Page numbers: 621-642
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  • From parent to child; early labor market experiences of second-generation immigrants in The Netherlands
    Year: 2004
    Journal: De Economist
    Volume: 152
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 473-490
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  • The locking-in effect of subsidized jobs
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Comparative Economics
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 37-52
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • The educational attainment of second-generation immigrants in The Netherlands


    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Population Economics
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 739-754
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  • Expert opinion and compensation: evidence from a musical competition
    Year: 2003
    Journal: American Economic Review
    Volume: 93
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 289-296
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  • Fast track or failure: a study of the graduation and dropout rates of Ph.D. students in economics
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Economics of Education Review
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 157-166
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  • From welfare to work: does the neighbourhood matter?
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Public Economics
    Volume: 87
    Page numbers: 957-985
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  • Is cannabis a stepping-stone for cocaine
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Health Economics
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 539-554
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  • Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment DICE Report
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal for Institutional Comparisons
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 3-6
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  • Unemployment dynamics and age
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique
    Volume: 70
    Page numbers: 1-30
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Do stepping stone jobs exist? Early career paths in the medical profession


    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Population Economics
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 647-665
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  • Drug use and drug policy
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
    Volume: 158
    Page numbers: 576-593
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  • The anatomy of unemployment dynamics
    Year: 2002
    Journal: European Economic Review
    Volume: 46
    Page numbers: 1785-1824
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  • The effects of government policy on drug use reconsidered
    Year: 2002
    Journal: The Journal of Economic History
    Volume: 62
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1122-1125
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  • Worker turnover at the firm level and crowding out of lower educated workers
    Year: 2002
    Journal: European Economic Review
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 523-538
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • The declining price anomaly in Dutch Dutch rose auctions


    Year: 2001
    Journal: American Economic Review
    Issue: 1055-1062
    Page numbers: 91
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  • Business cycles and compositional variation in U.S. unemployment
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 436-448
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  • The effect of government policy on drug use; Java, 1875-1904
    Year: 2001
    Journal: The Journal of Economic History
    Volume: 61
    Page numbers: 1-18
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  • Unemployment and labor market institutions: an empirical analysis
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 403-418
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