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2020

2020-057 Once the great lockdown is lifted; Post COVID-19 options for the economy
Jo Ritzen
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2020-056 The rise of the service sector in the global economy
Solomon Owusu, Adam Szirmai & Neil Foster-McGregor
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2020-055 Community multiculturalism and self-reported immigrant crime: Testing three theoretical mechanisms
Arjen Leerkes, Tineke Fokkema & Jonathan Bening
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2020-054 Women, leadership and violent extremism: A potential security risk?
Aurélie Wertza & Dorcas Mbuvi
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2020-053 Rethinking humanitarian aid & making the case for humanitarian social protection: A response to the 2019 Global Refugee Forum
Zina Nimeh, Tamara A. Kool, Francesco Iacoella & Alex Hunns
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2020-052 Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China
Shuai Chu, Xiangquan Zeng & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2020-051 Social assimilation and labour market outcomes of migrants in China
Shu Cai & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2020-050 Addressing the productivity paradox with big data: A literature review and adaptation of the CDM econometric model
Torben Schubert, Angela Jäger, Serdar Turkeli & Fabiana Visentin
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2020-049 Schumpeter and Keynes: Economic growth in a super-multiplier model
Önder Nomaler, Danilo Spinola & Bart Verspagen
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2020-048 Economic adjustment during the Great Recession: The role of managerial quality
Gilbert Cette, Jimmy Lopez, Jacques Mairesse & Giuseppe Nicoletti
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2020-047 Inter-sectoral and international R&D spillovers
René Belderbos & Pierre Mohnen
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2020-046 Does value chain participation facilitate the adoption of industry 4.0 technologies in developing countries?
Michele Delera, Carlo Pietrobelli, Elisa Calza & Alejandro Lavopa
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2020-045 Is sub-Saharan Africa deindustrializing?
Emmanuel Buadi Mensah
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2020-044 The role of domestic-firm knowledge in foreign R&D collaborations: Evidence from co-patenting in Indian firms
Nanditha Mathew, Lorenzo Napolitano & Ugo Rizzo
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2020-043 Roots of dissent: Trade liberalization and the rise of populism in Brazil
Francesco Iacoella, Patricia Justino & Bruno Martorano
Also published as UNU-WIDER Working Paper 118/2020.
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2020-042 Intra-EU migration: Shedding light on drivers, corridors and the relative importance of migrant characteristics
Miriam Mack, Sarah Roeder, Katrin Marchand & Melissa Siegel
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2020-041 Stagnant manufacturing growth in India: The role of the informal economy
Gbenoukpo Robert Djidonou & Neil Foster-McGregor
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2020-040 Automation, globalisation and relative wages: An empirical analysis of winners and losers
Antonio Francesco Gravina & Neil Foster-McGregor
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2020-039 Does gender matter for promotion in science? Evidence from physicists in France
Jacques Mairesse, Michele Pezzoni & Fabiana Visentin
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2020-038 The role of innovation in industrial dynamics and productivity growth: a survey of the literature
Mehmet Ugur & Marco Vivarelli
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2020-037 Self-selection in physical and mental health among older intra-European migrants
Amelie Constant & Nadja Milewski
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2020-036 Segmented paths of welfare assimilation
Yip Ching Yu & Zina Nimeh
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2020-035 Towards a new index of mobile money inclusion and the role of the regulatory environment
Godsway Tetteh, Micheline Goedhuys, Maty Konte & Pierre Mohnen
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2020-034 Optimal social distancing in SIR based macroeconomic models
Yoseph Yilma Getachew
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2020-033 Productive efficiency, technological change and catch up within Africa
Emmanuel Buadi Mensah, Solomon Owusu & Neil Foster-McGregor
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2020-032 Supply and demand in Kaldorian growth models: a proposal for dynamic adjustment
Guilherme R. Magacho & Danilo Spinola
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2020-031 International student mobility decision-making in a European context
Talitha Dubow, Katrin Marchand & Melissa Siegel
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2020-030 Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment
Shyamal Chowdhury, Matthias Sutter & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2020-029 The political economy of public research, or why some governments commit to research more than others
Andrea Filippetti & Antonio Vezzani
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2020-028 COVID-19, Lockdowns, and Africa’s Informal Sector: Lessons from Ghana
Elvis Avenyo, John Nana Francois & Tatenda Zinyemba
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2020-027 Patterns of growth in structuralist models: The role of the real exchange rate and industrial policy
Gabriel Porcile, Danilo Spinola & Giuliano Yajima
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2020-026 How important is GVC participation to export upgrading
Gideon Ndubuisi & Solomon Owusu
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2020-025 Economic gender gap in the Global South: how institutional quality matters
Elena Bárcena-Martín, Samuel Medina-Claros & Salvador Pérez-Moreno
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2020-024 Policy opportunities and challenges from the Covid-19 pandemic for economies with large informal sectors
Rajneesh Narula
forthcoming in Journal of International Business Policy 2020.
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2020-023 Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees
Christopher F Baum, Hans Lööf, Andreas Stephan & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2020-022 Labour market effects of COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: An informality lens from Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal
Racky Balde, Mohamed Boly & Elvis Avenyo
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2020-021 Ph.D. research output in STEM: the role of gender and race in supervision
Giulia Rossello, Robin Cowan & Jacques Mairesse
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2020-020 Public universities, in search of enhanced funding
Jo Ritzen
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2020-019 How does innovation take place in the mining industry? Understanding the logic behind innovation in a changing context
Beatriz Calzada Olvera & Michiko Iizuka
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2020-018 Inter-country Distancing, Globalisation and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Klaus F. Zimmermann, Gokhan Karabulut, Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin & Asli Cansin Doker
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2020-017 Overview of the Sudan Uprising
Samia S. O. M. Nour
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2020-016 Migration of higher education students from the North Africa Region to the United Kingdom
Samia S. O. M. Nour
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2020-015 Taking the challenge: A joint European policy response to the corona crisis to strengthen the public sector and restart a more sustainable and social Europe
Jo Ritzen, Javi Lopez, André Knottnerus, Salvador Pérez-Moreno, George Papandreou & Klaus F. Zimmermann
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2020-014 The economic impact of public R&D: an international perspective
Luc Soete, Bart Verspagen & Thomas Ziesemer
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2020-013 Semi-endogenous growth models with domestic and foreign private and public R&D linked to VECMs with evidence for five countries
Thomas Ziesemer
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2020-012 Technological revolutions, structural change & catching-up
Jan Fagerberg & Bart Verspagen
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2020-011 The productivity impact of business visits across industries
Mariacristina Piva, Massimiliano Tani & Marco Vivarelli
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2020-010 What matters in funding: The value of research coherence and alignment in evaluators' decisions
Charles Ayoubi, Sandra Barbosu, Michele Pezzoni & Fabiana Visentin
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2020-009 The impact of automation on inequality across Europe
Mary Kaltenberg & Neil Foster-McGregor
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2020-008 STI-DUI innovation modes and firm performance in the Indian capital goods industry: Do small firms differ from large ones?
Nanditha Mathew
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2020-007 Robots and the origin of their labour-saving impact
Fabio Montobbio, Jacopo Staccioli, E. Virgillito & Marco Vivarelli
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2020-006 For real? Income and non-income effects of cash transfers on the demand for food
Stephan Dietrich & Georg Schmerzeck
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2020-005 Mapping industrial patterns and structural change in exports
Charlotte Guillard
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2020-004 Time-space dynamics of return and circular migration: Theories and evidence
Amelie Constant
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2020-003 Uneven development and the balance of payments constrained model: Terms of trade, economic cycles, and productivity catching-up
Danilo Spinola
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2020-002 The La Marca Model revisited: Structuralist Goodwin cycles with evolutionary supply side and balance of payments constraints
Danilo Spinola
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2020-001 Debating the assumptions of the Thirlwall Model: A VECM analysis of the Balance of Payments for Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico
Danilo Spinola
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