Jules Theeuwes
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Email: j.theeuwes@seo.nl
Telephone: 020-5251634
He studied commercial and consular sciences at the University of Antwerpen (1966) and economic sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven (1980). He got his Ph.D. in Economics in 1975 from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, writing a dissertation on Family Labour Force Participation- and Supply Decisions. He was a member of the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) from 2002 till 2006. He was previously Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Law at the University of Leiden (1986–1998). He was research associate at the Centre for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) at the Catholic University of Leuven, assistant professor at the Economics Faculty of the Erasmus University Rotterdam (1976-1985), associate professor at the Economics Faculty of the Free University Amsterdam (1985-1986) and Scientific Director at SEO Economic Research (1998-2002). He held visiting professorship positions at the University of British Columbia, Canada (1978-1979), the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA (1988) and Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA (1996). He was elected Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, NIAS, Wassenaar (1990-1991). He is chairman of the Advisory Committee on Social Statistics at Statistics Netherlands (CBS), member of the Advisory Committee on Labour Conditions for the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), member of the editorial board for social and cultural publications of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) and the Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken. He is founding editor of Labour Economics: An International Journal published by Elsevier - North Holland. He co-wrote an intermediate textbook on Law and Economics with Professor Jeffrey Harrison (Law School, University of Florida), that was published by W.W. Norton & Company, New York in 2008. Jules' scientific publications are in the area of labour economics, economics of ageing, the economic analysis of law and economic aspects of competition and regulation and fall into a range of categories: academic – both refereed and non-refereed – popular writing, interviews, conference papers and presentations, work in progress and SEO reports. An overview can be found via the link at the top of this page "download list of publications". Most of his non-SEO publications can be downloaded from the website of the Amsterdam School of Economics. 
Jules Theeuwes is Professor of Applied Economics at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Amsterdam (since 1998) and general director of SEO Economic Research (since 2006).