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An econometric investigation of the productivity gender gap in Mexican research, and a simulation study of the effects on scientific performance of policy scenarios to promote gender equality Lorena Rivera Leon, Jacques Mairesse & Robin Cowan full text | abstract | |
Skills and entrepreneurship: Are return migrants 'Jacks-of-all-trades'? Clotilde Mahé An updated version of this paper has been published as #2017-039 Occupational choice of return migrants: Is there a 'Jack-of-all-trades' effect?. full text | abstract | |
Offshoring medium-skill tasks, low-skill unemployment and the skill-wage structure Ehsan Vallizadeh, Joan Muysken & Thomas Ziesemer full text | abstract | |
Glass ceiling effect in urban China: Wage inequality of rural-urban migrants during 2002-2007 Zhaopeng Qu & Zhong Zhao full text | abstract | |
Capacity building using PhD education in Africa Mindel van de Laar, Shivani Achrekar, Lucy L. Larbi & Friederike Rühmann full text | abstract | |
The impact of quantitative easing in the Netherlands: A stock-flow consistent approach Huub Meijers & Joan Muysken full text | abstract | |
Post-Enlargement Migration and the Great Recession in the E(M)U: Lessons and policy implications Martin Kahanec & Klaus F. Zimmermann full text | abstract | |
Contracting for technology transfer: patent licensing and know-how in Brazil Catalina Martinez & Pluvia Zuniga full text | abstract | |
Tilting at windmills or whipping up a storm? Elites and ethno-nationalist conflict during democratisation Lutz Krebs full text | abstract | |
The effect of improved storage innovations on food security and welfare in Ethiopia Wondimagegn Tesfaye & Nyasha Tirivayi full text | abstract | |
Towards a new European refugee policy that works Amelie Constant & Klaus F. Zimmermann full text | abstract | |
Patents, exhibitions and markets for innovation in the early twentieth century: Evidence from Turin 1911 International Exhibition Giacomo Domini full text | abstract | |
On the fungibility of public and private transfers: A mental accounting approach Jennifer Waidler full text | abstract | |
Formal and informal appropriation mechanisms: the role of openness and innovativeness Ann-Kristin Zobel, Boris Lokshin & John Hagedoorn full text | abstract | |
Innovation system in development: The case of Peru Pluvia Zuniga full text | abstract | |
Poverty reduction strategies in Canada: A new way to tackle an old problem? Geranda Notten & Rachel Laforest full text | abstract | |
Corruption, innovation and firm growth: Firm-level evidence from Egypt and Tunisia Micheline Goedhuys, Pierre Mohnen & Tamer Taha Paper published as: Goedhuys, M., Mohnen, P., & Taha, T. (2016). Corruption, innovation and firm growth: firm-level evidence from Egypt and Tunisia. Eurasian Business Review, 1-24. The final publication is available at Springer via: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40821-016-0062-4. full text | abstract | |
Three decades of publishing research in population economics Alessio J. G. Brown & Klaus F. Zimmermann full text | abstract | |
Trade liberalisation and child labour in China Liqiu Zhao, Fei Wang & Zhong Zhao full text | abstract | |
Fueling conflict? (De)escalation and bilateral aid Richard Bluhm, Martin Gassebner, Sarah Langlotz & Paul Schaudt full text | abstract | |
The invisible hand of informal (educational) communication!? Social capital considerations on Twitter conversations among teachers Martin Rehm & Ad Notten full text | abstract | |
A 'healthy immigrant effect' or a 'sick immigrant effect'? Selection and policies matter Amelie Constant, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman & Tzahi Neuman full text | abstract | |
Reservation wages of first- and second-generation migrants Amelie Constant, Annabelle Krause, Ulf Rinne & Klaus F. Zimmermann full text | abstract | |
Demographic dynamics and long-run development: Insights for the secular stagnation debate Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde & Klaus F. Zimmermann full text | abstract | |
River deep, mountain high: Of long-run knowledge trajectories within and between innovation clusters Önder Nomaler & Bart Verspagen full text | abstract | |
The impact of household labor-saving technologies along the family life cycle Raquel Tsukada & Arnaud Dupuy full text | abstract | |
The impact of piped water supply on household welfare Raquel Tsukada & Degol Hailu full text | abstract | |
The impact of rainwater harvesting on household labor supply Raquel Tsukada & Christian Lehmann full text | abstract | |
Gini coefficients of education for 146 countries, 1950-2010 Thomas Ziesemer full text | abstract | |
Entrepreneurial heterogeneity and the design of entrepreneurship policies for economic growth and inclusive development Elisa Calza & Micheline Goedhuys full text | abstract | |
Diaspora economics: New perspectives Amelie Constant & Klaus F. Zimmermann Published in International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 37, No. 7, pp. 1110-1135. full text | abstract | |
The chips are down: The influence of family on children's trust formation Corrado Giulietti, Enrico Rettore & Sara Tonini full text | abstract | |
Natural disasters and human mobility Linguère Mously Mbaye & Klaus F. Zimmermann full text | abstract | |
How do collaboration and investments in knowledge management affect process innovation in services? Mona Ashok, Rajneesh Narula & Andrea Martinez-Noya full text | abstract | |
Home sweet home? Macroeconomic conditions in home countries and the well-being of migrants Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain & Klaus F. Zimmermann full text | abstract | |
Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mental health Shyamal Chowdhury, Annabelle Krause & Klaus F. Zimmermann full text | abstract | |
Child labour in China Can Tang, Liqiu Zhao & Zhong Zhao full text | abstract | |
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Did they change social reality? Janyl Moldalieva, Arip Muttaqien, Choolwe Muzyamba, Davina Osei, Eli Stoykova & Nga Leopold full text | abstract | |
The role of innovation and management practices in determining firm productivity in developing economies Wiebke Bartz, Pierre Mohnen & Helena Schweiger full text | abstract | |
Social welfare benefits and their impacts on labour market participation among men and women in Mongolia Franziska Gassmann, Daphne François & Lorena Zardo Trindade full text | abstract | |
The effects of productivity and benefits on unemployment: Breaking the link Alessio J. G. Brown, Britta Kohlbrecher, Christian Merkl & Dennis J. Snower full text | abstract | |
The determinants of industrialisation in developing countries, 1960-2005 Francesca Guadagno full text | abstract | |
The effect of means-tested social transfers on labour supply: heads versus spouses - An empirical analysis of work disincentives in the Kyrgyz Republic Franziska Gassmann & Lorena Zardo Trindade full text | abstract | |
Determinants of citation impact: A comparative analysis of the Global South versus the Global North Hugo Confraria, Manuel Mira Godinho & Lili Wang full text | abstract | |
Mimetic behaviour and institutional persistence: A two-armed bandit experiment Stefania Innocenti & Robin Cowan full text | abstract | |
The affordability of the Sustainable Development Goals: A myth or reality? Patima Chongcharoentanawat, Kaleab Haile, Bart Kleine Deters, Tamara A. Kool & Victor Osei Kwadwo full text | abstract | |
Globalisation, technology and the labour market: A microeconometric analysis for Turkey Elena Meschi, Erol Taymaz & Marco Vivarelli full text | abstract | |
Fading hope and the rise in inequality in the United States Jo Ritzen & Klaus F. Zimmermann full text | abstract | |
Including excluded groups: The slow racial transformation of the South African university system Helena Barnard, Robin Cowan, Alan Kirman & Moritz Müller full text | abstract | |
A new indicator for innovation clusters George Christopoulos & René Wintjes full text | abstract | |
Public policy and mental health: What we can learn from the HIV movement David Scheerer, Zina Nimeh & Stefan Weinmann full text | abstract | |
International standards certification, institutional voids and exports from developing country firms Micheline Goedhuys & Leo Sleuwaegen full text | abstract | |
Multinational enterprises and economic development in host countries: What we know and what we don't know Rajneesh Narula & André Pineli full text | abstract | |
The impact of ex-ante subsidies to researchers on researchers' productivity: Evidence from a developing country Diego Aboal & Ezequiel Tacsir full text | abstract | |
Migration, occupation and education: Evidence from Ghana Clotilde Mahé & Wim Naudé full text | abstract | |
Technological Innovation Systems and the wider context: A framework for developing countries Hans-Erik Edsand full text | abstract | |
Structural transformation in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) Wim Naudé, Adam Szirmai & Nobuya Haraguchi full text | abstract | |
Structural decompositions of energy consumption, energy intensity, emissions and emission intensity - A sectoral perspective: empirical evidence from WIOD over 1995 to 2009 Sheng Zhong UNIDO Inclusive and Sustainable Development Working Paper Series 11/2015. full text | abstract | |
The dynamics of vehicle energy efficiency: Evidence from the Massachusetts Vehicle Census Sheng Zhong UNIDO Inclusive and Sustainable Development Working Paper Series 7/2016. full text | abstract | |
The role of technological trajectories in catching-up-based development: An application to energy efficiency technologies Sheng Zhong & Bart Verspagen UNIDO Inclusive and Sustainable Development Working Paper Series 6/2016. full text | abstract | |
Management standard certification and firm productivity: micro-evidence from Africa Micheline Goedhuys & Pierre Mohnen full text | abstract | |
Inclusive labour market: A role for a job guarantee scheme Saskia Klosse & Joan Muysken full text | abstract | |
On the optimum timing of the global carbon-transition under conditions of extreme weather-related damages: further green paradoxical results Adriaan van Zon full text | abstract | |
Aid, institutions and economic growth: Heterogeneous parameters and heterogeneous donors Hassen Wako full text | abstract | |
Determinants of innovation in Croatian SMEs: Comparison of service and manufacturing firms Ljiljana Bozic & Pierre Mohnen full text | abstract | |
Rejected Afghan asylum seekers in the Netherlands: Migration experiences, current situations and future aspirations Katherine Kuschminder & Melissa Siegel full text | abstract | |
On the value of foreign PhDs in the developing world: Training versus selection effects Helena Barnard, Robin Cowan & Moritz Müller full text | abstract | |
Critical raw material strategies in different world regions Eva Bartekova & René Kemp full text | abstract | |
A semi-endogenous growth model for developing countries with public factors, imported capital goods, and limited export demand Jan Simon Hallonsten & Thomas Ziesemer full text | abstract | |
Institutional factors and people's preferences in social protection Franziska Gassmann, Pierre Mohnen & Vincenzo Vinci full text | abstract | |
New variables for vocational secondary schooling: Patterns around the world from 1950-2010 Alison Cathles full text | abstract | |
Mexican manufacturing and its integration into global value chains Juan Carlos Castillo & Adam Szirmai full text | abstract | |