Using a Brazilian university as a case study, can international mobility shape students’ attitudes toward inequality?
How can we implement more secure, more sustainable and more efficient migration governance?
These are just two questions that have been tackled by our researchers in January 2023 — in two journal articles, a research report, three working papers and three PhD dissertations, among others.
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Journal articles
‘Vertical taxing rights and tax compliance norms‘ investigates the effects of multi-layer tax arrangements on tax compliance norms and behaviours of individuals in 49 Latin American and African countries, and confirms the overarching hypothesis that inter-governmental tax arrangements matter for understanding tax compliance norms.
By Dr Rose Camille Vincent
‘A stranger at home? A multilevel analysis of anti-Muslim sentiment in Western European societies‘ takes survey data from 15 Western European countries and finds that accommodation of Islam policies produce socialising effects on those whose opinions resonate with the policies. However, the authors do not find statistical evidence of backlash on those whose opinions dissonate with the policies. The findings suggest that accommodation of Islam policies do not radicalise dissonant opinions and are likely to reduce anti-Muslim sentiments among those whose opinions resonate with the policies.
By Ana Maria Torres Chedraui and Dr Pui-Hang Wong
Research reports
‘Measuring Good Migration Governance with an Indicator Approach‘ (AdMiGov Deliverable 7.4)
To what extent do current migration governance systems guarantee the protection of migrants? To what extent are current migration governance systems consistent with sustainable development? What are the current strengths and weaknesses of current migration governance systems with respect to migrant protection and sustainable development? To what extent are current migration governance systems able to bring into practice what is committed to on paper? How can we move forward to implement more secure, more sustainable, and more efficient migration governance?
The AdMiGov (Advancing Alternative Migration Governance) Indicators of Good Migration Governance offer a tool to answer these questions which is composed of 68 indicators that evaluate national migration governance measures.
By Francesco Pasetti and Dr Elaine Lebon-McGregor
Working papers
‘Reshoring, nearshoring and developing countries: Readiness and implications for Latin America‘ (UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2023-003) discusses the concepts of reshoring and nearshoring that are gaining increasing popularity. The authors find limited evidence of nearshoring to the Latin American region so far, except for Mexico, and they highlight strengths and weaknesses of the region for attracting and benefiting from future relocations.
By Prof. Dr. Carlo Pietrobelli and PhD fellow Cecilia Seri
‘Demand-led industrialisation policy in a dual-sector small open economy‘ (UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2023-002) models the process of structural transformation and catching-up in a
demand-led Southern economy constrained by its balance of payments. The authors observe that a demand-led government policy plays a central role in structural change, pushing the modern sector to a larger share of employment than what results under export-led growth. Such demand policy is the only way in which partial catching up (in productivity and GDP per capita) can result, and this is facilitated by a global market place in which the balance of payments constraint is relatively soft.
By Dr Önder Nomaler, Dr Danilo Spinola and Prof. Dr. Bart Verspagen
‘Can international mobility shape students’ attitudes toward inequality? The Brazilian case‘ (UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2023-001) examines the impact of international mobility programmes on students’ attitudes toward inequality, focusing on two dimensions: preference and perception of inequality.
By PhD fellow Cintia Denise Granja, Dr Fabiana Visentin and Ana Maria Carneiro.
PhD defences
‘Teacher professional development interventions to promote data use in education‘ evaluates the role of professional development interventions to develop teachers’ data literacy for teaching or the ability to use various types of data (information) to inform educational decision-making.
By Dr Fauzan Ansyari
‘Decision-making of irregularised migrants throughout the migration trajectory‘ examines the decision-making of irregularised migrants (people who migrate outside of – or are excluded from – legal channels for migration) over the course of their migration trajectories towards and through Europe.
By Talitha Dubow
‘Strategy Implementation and Decision Making in the Broader MNC Network‘ sheds light on the sources of heterogeneity in strategy implementation across the multinational company (MNC) network by means of three empirical studies that all rely on data on goodwill decision-making gathered at a major European automobile manufacturer.
By Sophie Gysan
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