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Country-specific goal-scoring in the "dying seconds" of international football matches

van Ours, Jan C.; van Tuijl, Martin A. - 2010

national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … Cup. We find that the national teams of Germany, England and the Netherlands are more likely than the three other national … teams to score in the last minute - including stoppage time. However, for Germans this comes at a cost. Germany is more …

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Effective Active Labor Market Policies

Boone, Jan; van Ours, Jan C. - 2004

are not effective at all. Our theory considers ALMP in the context of a search-matching model. …

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Experiments on unemployment benefit sanctions and job search behavior

Boone, Jan; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; van Ours, Jan C. - 2004

This paper presents the results of an experimental study on unemployment benefit sanctions. The experimental set-up allows us to distinguish between the effect of benefit sanctions once they are imposed (the ex post effect) and the effect that unemployed want to avoid getting a benefit sanction...

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From Parent to Child: Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands

van Ours, Jan C.; Veenman, Justus - 2002

This paper is on the early labor market experiences of second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands. We find that …

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The Netherlands: Old Emigrants - Young Immigrant Country

van Ours, Jan C.; Veenman, Justus - 1999

Since the mid 1960s the Netherlands has an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and …

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Fast Track or Failure: A Study of the Completion Rates of Graduate Students in Economics

van Ours, Jan C.; Ridder, Geert - 2000

universities in The Netherlands. We find that an indicator of the research productivity of the supervisor is an important …

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The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in The Netherlands

van Ours, Jan C.; Veenman, Justus - 2001

Since the mid-1960?s the Netherlands has had an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey …

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

van Ours, Jan C. - 2002

Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a negative wage effect of about 10% while the use of alcohol has a …

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Using Employer Hiring Behavior to Test the Educational Signaling Hypothesis

Albrecht, James; van Ours, Jan C. - 2001

This paper presents a test of the educational signaling hypothesis. If employers use education as a signal in the hiring process, they will rely more on education when less is otherwise known about applicants. We find that employers are more likely to lower educational standards when an...

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Age-specific cyclical effects in job reallocation and labor mobility

Gielen, Anne C.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2005

Netherlands to investigate how firms adjust their workforce over the cycle. Our data cover the period 1993-2002. We find that …

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