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Jan C. van Ours

SHORT CV

Date - place of birth 1954 - Stellendam (The Netherlands)

Citizenship Dutch

Current position: Professor of Labor Economics, Tilburg University (from 1998), Professorial fellow, University of Melbourne (from 2007)

Office address Department of Economics, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands

Phone +31-13-4662880

Fax +31-13-4663066

e-mail: vanours @ uvt.nl

e-mail: jvanours @ unimelb.edu.au

Education: M.A.: Technical University Delft, Mining Engineering (1971-77), M.A.: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Economics (1977-82), PhD: Family consumption in the Netherlands; 1951-1980 (1986; in Dutch).

Previous positions: Scientific Director CentER (Jan 1 - July 4, 2001), Head Department of Economics Tilburg University (1999-2000), Director Tinbergen Institute (1994-1997), Professor of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam (1994-1997) Associate Professor of Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1988-1994) Staff member Organisation for Labour Market Research (OSA; 1983-88) Staff member Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR; 1978-83).

Award: Hicks-Tinbergen medal - European Economic Association (1996; joint with Geert Ridder).
 
Fellow: CentER (Tilburg), CEPR (London), IZA (Bonn)

Editorial work:
Managing editor Economic Policy (from 2007)
Managing Editor De Economist (from 2010); editor from 2003.
Associate editor Labour Economics (from 2006)

Previous editorial work: Associate editor Journal of the European Economic Association (2003-2008), Co-editor Labour Economics (1999-2004), Associate editor European Economic Review (2001-2004), Editorial board CPB Report (1998-2003).

Academic duties: President Society for Population Economics 2009 (Presidential address: Will you still need me - when I'm 64?), President-elect Society for Population Economics 2008, Council European Society for Population Economics (from 2006); Board European Association of Labour Economists (1998-2004); Member Economic Policy Forum (2001-2003); Member Jury Hennipman prize (1997-2001); Research Director Institute for Labour Studies (OSA; 1998-2005); Member Strategic Advisory Research Board Danish National Institute of Social Research (Copenhagen; from 2003).

Other: Board of scientific advisors Nyfer - Breukelen (from 2002), board of supervisory directors Kliqmatch Maarssen (2002-2004)

Referee scientific journals: Addiction, Addictive Behaviors, American Economic Review, Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, Applied Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Economica, Economic Journal, Economisch en Sociaal Tijdschrift, Empirical Economics, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, German Economic Review, Health Economics, International Regional Science Review, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Economic Studies, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Labour Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Oxford Economic Papers, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics.

Current research: Unemployment dynamics, effects of policy interventions in the labor market, labor market and the firm, matching job seekers and vacancies, immigration and the labor market, dynamics in drug use.

Current Teaching: Seminar Labor Economics, Labor Economics.





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