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Cannabis use and its effects on health, education and labor market success
Ours, Jan C. van; Williams, Jenny - In: Journal of economic surveys 29 (2015) 5, pp. 993-1010
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Cannabis use and its effects on health, education and labor market success
Ours, Jan C. van; Williams, Jenny - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010395531
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Do stepping stone jobs exist? : early career paths in the medical profession
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301153
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Fast track or failure : a study of the completion rates of graduate students in economics
Ours, Jan C. van; Ridder, Geert - 2000
This paper presents an analysis of the failure and completion rates of graduate students in economics at three universities in The Netherlands. We find that an indicator of the research productivity of the supervisor is an important determinant of the completion and dropout rates. However, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318598
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How retirement affects mental health, cognitive skills and mortality; an overview of recent empirical evidence
Ours, Jan C. van - 2022
health, cognitive ability and mortality. The results are all over the place but on average it seems like at retirement mental … health improves, cognitive skills deteriorate and mortality is not affected. However, there is substantial effect … see the forest for the trees and advocate evidence-based retirement policies that take health effects into account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332696
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The locking-in effect of subsidized jobs
Ours, Jan C. van - 2002
. The focus of the analysis is temporary subsidized jobs. By exploiting the variation in the duration of these jobs it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412050
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Early cannabis use and school to work transition of young men
Williams, Jenny; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017
We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110588
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Early cannabis use and school to work transition of young men
Williams, Jenny; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017
We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607269
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Early cannabis use and school to work transition of young men
Williams, Jenny; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017
We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583527
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The impact of active labor market programs and benefit entitlement rules on the duration of unemployment
Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van; Zweimüller, Josef - 2000
making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we … participation. Taken together, this leads to the conclusion that programs prolong unemployment duration for men, but tend to shorten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333287