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Ndubuisi, Gideon & Maty Konte, 2019, Credit constraints and trade performance: Does trust-based social capital matter?, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-046 | Abstract
Wang, Lili, Xianwen Wang, Fredrik Piro & Niels J. Philipsen, 2019, The effect of public funding on scientific performance: A comparison between China and the EU, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-045 | Abstract
Muttaqien, Arip, Cathal O'Donoghue & Denisa Maria Sologon, Sep 2019, Understanding Differences in Household Expenditure Inequality Between India and Indonesia, in: Koen Decancq and Philippe Van Kerm, What Drives Inequality?, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1049-258520190000027005, More information
Bierbaum, Mira, 2019, New Mindsets to Innovate Activation, PhD dissertation Maastricht University / United Nations University, DOI: https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.26481/dis.20191030mb, More information
Celbis, Mehmet Guney, Nov 2019, A Summary of Selected Innovation-Related Indicators for Turkey, Yeditepe University - Economics Notes 2019-3, Istanbul, Turkey, This descriptive departmental brief presents the current trends in the innovation-related indicators for Turkey through a spatial and time-series approach, More information
Fajth, Veronika, Özge Bilgili, Craig Loschmann & Melissa Siegel, 2019, How do refugees affect social life in host communities? The case of Congolese refugees in Rwanda, Comparative Migration Studies, 7(1): 33, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-019-0139-1, More information
Loiacono, Francesco & Mariajose Silva Vargas, Oct 2019, Policy Brief: Improving access to labour markets for refugees: Evidence from Uganda, Policy Brief for the International Growth Center (IGC Uganda), More information
Loiacono, Francesco & Mariajose Silva Vargas, Oct 2019, Improving Access To Labour Markets for Refugees: Evidence from Uganda, Progress report for the International Growth Center (IGC), More information
Konte, Maty, Victor Osei Kwadwo & Tatenda Zinyemba, 2019, Women's political and reproductive health empowerment in Africa: A literature review, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-044 | Abstract
Konte, Maty & Gideon Ndubuisi, 2019, Remittances and Bribery in Africa, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-043 | Abstract
Boly, Amadou, Maty Konte & Abebe Shimeles, 2019, Corruption and tax morale in Africa, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-042 | Abstract
Konte, Maty & Rose Camille Vincent, 2019, Mining and quality of public services: The role of local governance and decentralisation, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-041 | Abstract
Haraguchi, Nobuya, Bruno Martorano, Marco Sanfilippo & Anirudh Shingal, 2019, Manufacturing Growth Accelerations in Developing Countries, Review of Development Economics, 23(4): 1696-1724, More information
Volante, Louis, Sylke Schnepf, John Jerrim & Don A. Klinger, 2019, Socio-economic background and educational inequalities, Science for Policy Briefs Series. Ispra, Italy: Joint Research Centre – European Commission. This policy brief builds on research findings published in 'Socioeconomic inequality and student outcomes: Cross-national trends, policies and practices', More information
Kuschminder, Katherine & Anna Triandafyllidou, Oct 2019, Smuggling, Trafficking, and Extortion: New Conceptual and Policy Challenges on the Libyan Route to Europe Video, Explainer and Video Abstract, More information
Mueller, Charlotte, Oct 2019, Research on Diaspora Knowledge Transfer within a Temporary Return Program, Migrant Knowledge - Writing knowledge into the history of migration and migration into the history of knowledge. A blog curated by GHI Washington Pacific Regional Office Berkeley, More information
Andersson, Lisa & Melissa Siegel, Oct 2019, Empirical assessments of the development impacts of migration, Mignex background paper, More information
Siegel, Melissa, Oct 2019, Teasing out the meaning: Capacity building in Migration (& Development), UNU-MERIT blog series, More information
Constant, Amelie, 2019, Return, circular, and onward migration decisions in a knowledge society, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-040 | Abstract
Alem, Yonas & Lisa Andersson, 2019, International Remittances and Private Interhousehold Transfers: Exploring the Links, The European Journal of Development Research, 31(4): 902-928, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-019-0193-4, More information
Notten, Ad, Jojo Jacob, Bulat Sanditov & Alex Surpatean, Jan 2019, Analysis of patents, publications and new organisations from FP7-ICT and CIP-ICT projects, This study report provides an in-depth examination of the publications and patents reported through the yearly survey waves undertaken by DG CNECT in the years 2008-2017. It is also the culmination of two consecutive ex-post research evaluations, of which the first exercise starting in 2012 and the second in 2016. The results of both these research assessments, SMART 2011/0039 and SMART 2015/0078, are created in this report. Additional analysis of the productivity and quality of the research output of projects funded under FP7 ICT using a longitudinal dataset is foremost concentrated on two data sets; one of patents, the other of publications. Next to these two datasets, we also conduct a
preliminary analysis into the data collected on newly created organisations for the years 2014 to 2016. This report covers the entirety of the FP7 projects launched during the years 2007 to 2013, for their productive years from 2007 to 2016, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2759/644641, More information
Gassmann, Franziska & Bruno Martorano, 2019, The future of work and its implications for social protection and the welfare state, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-039 | Abstract
Volante, Louis, John Jerrim, Jo Ritzen & Sylke Schnepf, 2019, This is how the way the world measures success in education is changing, World Economic Forum - Agenda Weekly, More information
Volante, Louis, John Jerrim & Jo Ritzen, 2019, High school dropouts cost countries a staggering amount of money, The Conversation, More information
Volante, Louis, Sylke Schnepf, John Jerrim & Don A. Klinger (eds.), 2019, Socioeconomic Inequality and Student Outcomes: Cross-National Trends, Policies, and Practices, Springer Press, Singapore, More information
Biesebroeck, Johannes van (ed.), Jul 2019, The Extent of GVC Engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa, World Bank, Washington, D.C, This paper exploits information from two different datasets to provide a novel and multi-dimensional picture of the engagement of all sub-Saharan African countries in global value chains (GVCs). It documents in detail the nature of the underlying data and the way it is used to construct several indicators of GVC engagement. As a companion to the paper, the data files are made available to interested researchers. While it is impossible to summarize the broad range of experiences that we document, two patterns stand out. First, the level of GVC engagement of most countries in sub-Saharan Africa is rather low, especially for their manufacturing sectors. Second, while there is increased GVC engagement over time in some countries, this pattern is by no means universal. The average engagement for the region over the time period studied (1995-2018) is not even positive on average across countries for several indicators, More information
Calzada Olvera, Beatriz & Neil Foster-McGregor, Jun 2019, “Global value chains and employment in the mining sector”, International Input Output Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Calzada Olvera, Beatriz & Neil Foster-McGregor, Sep 19, 2019, “Global value chains and employment in the mining sector”, UNIDO/ESRC GPID Workshop “The Future of Work”, UNIDO Vienna, Austria
Innocenti, Stefania, G.L. Clark, S. McGill & J. Cuñado, 2019, The effect of past health events on intentions to purchase insurance: Evidence from 11 countries, Journal of Economic Psychology, 74(102204): 1-21, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2019.102204, More information
Iizuka, Michiko & Yoko Ikeda, 2019, Regulation and innovation under Industry 4.0: Case of medical/healthcare robot, HAL by Cyberdyne, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-038 | Abstract
Marotta, Julieta, May 08, 2019, How do Victims of Domestic Violence Participate in the Legal Process? An Empirical Approach to the Work of Public Prosecutors in Buenos Aires, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University
Tesfaye, Wondimagegn & Nyasha Tirivayi, 2019, Crop diversity, household welfare and consumption smoothing under risk: Evidence from rural Uganda, World Development, 125: 104686, DOI: https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104686, More information
Iacoella, Francesco & Nyasha Tirivayi, 2019, Determinants of maternal healthcare utilization among married adolescents: Evidence from 13 Sub-Saharan African countries, Public Health, Volume 177: 1-9, DOI: https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2019.07.002, More information
Ayoubi, Charles, Michele Pezzoni & Fabiana Visentin, 2019, Does it pay to do novel science? The selectivity patterns in science funding, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-037 | Abstract
Ziesemer, Thomas, 2019, The effects of R&D subsidies and publicly performed R&D on business R&D: A survey, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-036 | Abstract
Narula, Rajneesh & Khadija van der Straaten, 2019, A comment on the multifaceted relationship between multinational enterprises and within-country inequality, Forthcoming, Critical Perspectives on International Business, 2019, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-035 | Abstract
Narula, Rajneesh, 2019, Enforcing higher labour standards within developing country value chains: Consequences for MNEs and informal actors in a dual economy, Forthcoming, Journal of International Business Studies Vol 50, 2019, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-034 | Abstract
Muttaqien, Arip, Cathal O'Donoghue & Denisa Maria Sologon, 2019, Decomposing polarisation across developing countries: case study of China, India, and Indonesia, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/apel.12267, More information
Scarazzati, Stefano & Lili Wang, 2019, The effect of collaborations on scientific research output: the case of nanoscience in Chinese regions, Scientometrics, 121(2): 839-868, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03220-x, More information
Iizuka, Michiko, Carlo Pietrobelli & Fernando Vargas, 2019, The Potential for innovation in mining value chains. Evidence from Latin America, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-033 | Abstract
Barbieri, Laura, Chiara Mussida, Mariacristina Piva & Marco Vivarelli, 2019, Testing the employment and skill impact of new technologies: A survey and some methodological issues, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-032 | Abstract
Pietrobelli, Carlo, 2019, Modern industrial policy in Latin America: Lessons from cluster development policies, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-031 | Abstract
Naudé, Wim, 2019, The decline in entrepreneurship in the West: Is complexity ossifying the economy?, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-030 | Abstract
Ziesemer, Thomas, 2019, Japan's productivity and GDP growth: The role of GBAORD, public and foreign R&D, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-029 | Abstract
Justino, Patricia & Bruno Martorano, 2019, Redistributive Preferences and Protests in Latin America, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 63(9): 2128-2154, DOI: https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002719827370, More information
Torres Mazzi, Caio & Neil Foster-McGregor, 2019, Imported intermediates, technological capabilities and exports: Evidence from Brazilian firm-level data, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-028 | Abstract
Reitmann, Ann-Kristin, Micheline Goedhuys, Michael Grimm & Eleonora Nillesen, 2019, Measuring attitudes on gender equality and domestic violence in the Arab context - The role of framing, priming and interviewer effects, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-027 | Abstract
Russo, Emanuele, Neil Foster-McGregor & Bart Verspagen, 2019, Characterizing growth instability: new evidence on unit roots and structural breaks in long run time series, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-026 | Abstract
Tacsir, Ezequiel & Mariano Pereira, 2019, Who has been drivingrnthe creation of industrial employment in Argentina?: An analysis of the role of innovation, CEPAL Review, 127: 171-189, More information
Turkeli, Serdar & Martine Schophuizen, 2019, Decomposing the Complexity of Value: Integration of Digital Transformation of Education with Circular Economy Transition, Social Sciences, 8(8): (243)-1-22, More information