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Van Ours, J.C. (2023) Retirement and health. In:  The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing. London: Routledge 

Chen S. and J.C. van Ours (2021) Happiness and Partnerships. In: Zimmermann K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. 

Boeri, T. and J.C. van Ours (2021) The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets, third ediction, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 

McVicar, D., J. Moschion and J.C. van Ours (2019) Does drug use lead to homelessness for young, disadvantaged people? Significance, 2019, 16 (3), 10-11.

Van Ours, J.C. (2019) Health Economics of the Workplace: Workplace Accidents and Effects of Job Loss and Retirement. In the Oxford Encyclopedia of Health Economics. Oxford University Press.

Van Ours, J.C. (2018) The Minimum Wage in the Netherlands, ifo DICE Report 16 (4), 31-36.

Van Ours, J.C. (2018) Stephen J. Nickell (1944-), in: Robert A. Cord (ed.), The Palgrave Companion to LSE Economics, Chapter 34, Springer Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 831-856.

Effectiveness of in-season coach dismissal, in: Albert, J., M.E. Glickman, T.B. Swartz and R.H. Koning (eds.) Handbook of Statistical Methods and Analyses in Sports. CRCPress, 2017, 385-400 (with Lucas Besters and Martin van Tuijl).

Long-term unemployment in the Netherlands: An age-related phenomenon, in: Samuel Bentolila, Marcel Jansen (eds.) Long-Term Unemployment After the Great Recession: Causes and remedies, eBook, Vox, September 2016.

Review of Greek Labor Market Institutions, September 2016 (with many others).

Health effects of illegal drug use, in: Culyer, A.J. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Health Economics, Vol. 2, San Diego: Elsevier, 2014, 1-9 (with Jenny Williams). 

Immigration: what about the children and grandchildren? in: Chiswick, B.R. and P.W. Miller (Eds.), Handbook of the Economics of International Migration, Vol. 1B, Chapter 21, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2014, 1141-1193 (with Arthur Sweetman)

The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets; second edition, Princeton University Press, 2013 (with Tito Boeri)

The Dutch Labour Market: Great Recession - Small Impact, CESifo DICE Report 10 (2), 2012, 20-26.

Reemployment Incentives under the Chilean Hybrid Unemployment Benefit Program, In: Holzmann, R. and M. Vodopivec (eds.), Reforming Severance Pay:An International Perspective, 2011, The World Bank, Washington D.C., 285-294 (with Gonzalo Reyes and Milan Vodopivec).  

Ageing, Health and Productivity; the Economics of Increased Life Expectancy, 2010, Oxford University Press (edited withPietro Garibaldi and  Joaquim Oliveira Martins)

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The economics of books, in: Victor A. Ginsburgh and David Throsby (eds.) Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, volume 1, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2006, Chapter 21, 721-761 (with Marcel Canoy and Frederick van der Ploeg). 

Has the Dutch miracle come to an end? in: Werding, Martin (ed.), Structural Unemployment in Western Europe: Reasons and Remedies, Cambridge MA, London UK: MIT Press, 2006, 133-158. 

Changes in benefit entitlement and job finding: the Slovenian experiment, in: Carone, Giuseppe and A. Salomaki (ed.), Indicators and policies to make work pay, European Economy Special Report, no 2, 2005, 120-130. 

Discussion on "Hiring incentives and labour force participation in Italy", in: R. Gomez-Salvador et al. (2005) Labour Supply and Incentives to Work in Europe, Northhampton, Edward Elgar, 268-269.

The Netherlands; old emigrants - young immigrant country, in: K. Zimmermann (ed.), European Migration: What do We Know?, Oxford University Press, 2005, 173-196 (with Justus Veenman)

Youth at risk on the transitional labor market. Job chances fo second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands; in: N van den Heuvel et al.Diversity in life courses; consequences for the labor market, Institute for Labor Studies, 2005, 83-98 (with Justus Veenman).

Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment DICE Report - Journal for Institutional Comparisons, 1, 2003, 2, 3-6 (with Michele Belot).

Opium and narcotics, in: Joel Mokyr, Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2003.

Comment on 'Unions and labour market institutions in Europe, in: Economic Policy,35, 2002, 403-404.

Comment on 'Can training and employment subsidies combat European unemployment?, in: Economic Policy, 35, 2002, 443-445.

Comment on 'Venture capital in Europe and the financing of innovative companies, in: Economic Policy, 34, 2000, 263-266.

Worker Displacement in the US and the Netherlands, in: Peter F. Kuhn (ed.), Losing work, moving on: international perspectives on worker displacement,, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2002, 105-194; ISBN 0-88099-233-6-90000 (with Jaap Abbring, Gerard van den Berg, Pieter A. Gautier, A. Gijsbert C. van Lomwel, and Chris Ruhm) 

Do active labor market policies help unemployed workers to find and keep regular jobs?, in: Michael Lechner and Friedhelm Pfeiffer (Eds.), Econometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies, Physica-Verlag, 125-152, 2001.

Comment on 'Labour market implications in EU product market integration, in: Economic Policy, 30, 2000, 128-129.

Separations at the firm level, in: J.C. Haltiwanger et al., The creation and analysis of employer-employee matched data, Amsterdam, North- Holland, Contributions to Economic Analysis, 313-327, 1999 (with P. Gautier, G van den Berg and G. Ridder).

An Empirical Analysis of the Effectiveness of Search Channels for Employed and Unemployed Workers, in: P. Gregg (ed.), Jobs, Wages and Poverty, Centre for Economic Performance, 1997 (with M. Lindeboom).

The flow approach in the Netherlands; an empirical analysis using regional information, Schettkat, R. (ed.), The flow analysis of labour markets, London/New York, Routledge, 1996 (with C. Gorter).

Temporal Aggregation Bias in Stock-Flow Models, CEPR Discussion paper no. 967, 1994 (with K. Burdett and M. Coles).

How to Reduce Vacancy Durations, in: J. Muysken (ed.), Measurement and Analysis of Vacancies; an International Comparison, Avebury publishers, London, 1994 (with J.H. Abbring).

Macro Matching and Micro Search Durations; Looking Inside the Black Box of Job Formation, in: H. Bunzel, P. Jensen and N. Westergaard- Nielsen (eds.), Paneldata and Labour Market Dynamics, Amsterdam, North-Holland, Contributions to Economic Analysis, 1-20, 1993 (with M. Lindeboom).

Matching Job Seekers and Vacancies; in: J.C. van Ours, G. Pfann, G. Ridder (eds.), Labour Demand and Equilibrium Wage Formation, Amsterdam, North-Holland, Contributions to Economic Analysis, 279-296, 1993 (with M. Lindeboom and G. Renes).

Labour Demand and Equilibrium Wage Formation, Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1993 (with G. Pfann and G. Ridder).

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