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PUBLISHED PAPERS
Joint with Michèle Belot and Philipp Kircher
Accepted at Economic Journal
We insert occupational suggestions into an online job search platform, that is provided to long-term unemployed by a private job search assistance provider. Evaluation through an RCT shows positive impacts on job finding and occupational mobility.
Joint with with Roger Prudon and Pierre Koning
Labour Economics, Volume 96, October 2025
Temporary workers have higher disability risks than permanent workers. We show that in the Netherlands this is not explained by selection or higher risk of illness in temporary jobs. Instead, the difference arises during sickness, as a result of lower employer commitment and lack of labour market opportunities.
ESB (in Dutch)
ESB (in Dutch)
Joint with Michèle Belot and Philipp Kircher
Chapter in Handbook on Labour Markets in Transition. Edited by Stéphane Carcillo and Stefano Scarpetta. Joint with Michèle Belot and Philipp Kircher
We review empirical evidence on behavioral biases in job search and discuss research on online interventions to overcome such biases.
Joint with Lisa Timm and Massimo Giuliodori)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 17 (3): 42–79, July 2025
Migrants moving to the Netherlands for employment enjoy a substantial tax exemption. We show (by considering a reform of the tax rule in 2012) that the exemption strongly increased arriving migrants over the past decade.
ESB (in Dutch) Discussion in TV-show EenVandaag (2023) and (2025)
ESB (in Dutch) Discussion in TV-show EenVandaag (2023) and (2025)
Joint with Michèle Belot and Philipp Kircher (suppl. material part 1 (theory) & part 2 (experiments)
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 17(1), February 2025
We propose a novel method to elicitit time preferences that is robust to cases where background consumption and income vary. We validate the method in a field experiment, and show an application using job seekers (for whom income is likely to vary substantially).
Joint with Michèle Belot and Philipp Kircher
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 14(4), 2022
By assigning random wages to pairs of otherwise similar job ads, we show that job seekers respond to perceived competition: higher wages attract more interest, but some job seekers prefer the lower wage job.
VoxEU column
VoxEU column
Joint with Roger Prudon and Pierre Koning
Journal of Health Economics, Volume 82, March 2022
We consider the outflow rates from disability insurance: by estimating the response to health recovery we show that awarded DI applicants return to work substantially less than rejected DI applicants.
Joint with Wolfgang Habla
Experimental Economics, 24, 2021
Using a randomized field experiment, we show that email reminders positively affect members' gym visits. Using detailed booking / canceling data for gym classes, we explore how planning for future gym visits is affected.
Joint with Bas van der Klaauw and Arjan Heyma
Journal of Applied Econometrics, Volume 35, Issue 5, August 2020
We compare three distinct econometric techniques for estimating the impact of privately provided job search assistance in the Netherlands. We find that exploiting non-experimental variation in program participation leads to results that are (qualitatively) similar to those from evaluating a natural experiment.
Joint with Michèle Belot and Philipp Kircher.
The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 86, Issue 4, July 2019
We develop and evaluate experimentally an online tool that provides occupational advice (based on labor market data) to job seekers. We find that the advice affects participants' job search strategies and improves prospects of job interviews for a subset.
VoxEU column, Microeconomic Insights
VoxEU column, Microeconomic Insights
Joint with Pieter Gautier, Bas van der Klaauw, Michael Rosholm, and Michael Svarer
Journal of Labor Economics, vol 36, No. 4, October 2018
Using data from a Danish field experiment, we show that job search assistance programs may have unintended consequences, by reducing job prospects for job seekers that do not participate.
VoxEU column
VoxEU column
Evaluating a large reform in the Netherlands (2005), we show that higher childcare subsidies can increase labor supply of mothers with young children, although the effect is modest relative to the subsidy expenditures.
ESB (in Dutch), CPB Notitie (in Dutch), Volkskrant, AD,
ESB (in Dutch), CPB Notitie (in Dutch), Volkskrant, AD,
WORK IN PROGRESS
WORK IN PROGRESS
Advising Job Seekers in Occupations with Poor Prospects: A Field Experiment (with Michèle Belot, Didier Fouarge, Bart de Koning, Philipp Kircher and Sandra Phlippen). Discussion paper. Policy summary (in Dutch) available in a UWV Kennisverslag.
Supporting occupational transitions through buddy-support (with Michèle Belot, Yvonne Engels, Didier Fouarge, Bart de Koning, Mario Keer, Philipp Kircher and Sandra Phlippen)
Gender gaps in wage bargaining (with Mark van der Meijden, Lisa Timm and Massimo Giuliodori)
Reference-dependence in job search (with Marco Fongoni and Bart de Koning)
The Scarring Effect of Short-Lived Sickness Spells for Temporary Workers (with Jonathan Rossi, Pierre Koning and Carlos Riumallo Herl)
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