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Ritzen, Jo, Caroline Wehner & Klaus F. Zimmermann, 2014, Euroskepticism in the Crisis: More Mood than Economy, IZA Discussion Paper No. 8001
Wong, Pui-hang, 2014, A Simple Model of Rebel Group Fragmentation, European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual General Conference, Edinburgh, 19-21 June, 2014
Merkle, Ortrun, Sep 2014, The Role of Political Parties and CSOs in Democratic Governance’, Closing Conference of the UNDEF funded Project “Promoting Democracy in Georgia through Empowering Young Members of Political Parties and Civil Society Organizations”; Tbilisi, Georgia;
Barbé, Esther, Anna Herranz-Surrallés & Michal Natorski, 2014, Model, Player or Instrument for Global Governance: Metaphors in the Discourse and Practice of EU Foreign Policy, in: Caterina Carta and Jean-Frédéric Morin, Making Sense of Diversity: EU's Foreign Policy through the Lenses of Discourse Analysis, Ashgate, Farnham
Natorski, Michal & Eduard Soler, 2014, Las relaciones de la Unión Europea con los vecinos, in: Esther Barbé, La Unión Europea en las Relaciones Internacionales, Tecnos, Madrid
Korosteleva, Elena, Michal Natorski & Licinia Simao (eds.), 2014, EU Policies in the Eastern Neighbourhood: The practices approach, Routledge, London, 132, More information
Waidler, Jennifer, Sep 2014, Does it matter where the children are? The wellbeing of elderly people ‘left behind’ by migrant children in Moldova, 11th IMISCOE Annual Conference, Madrid, Spain
Waidler, Jennifer, Nov 2014, Do remittances and social assistance have different impacts on expenditure patterns of recipient households? The Moldovan Case, UNU-MERIT Innovation and Governance in Development, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Taborda Martinez, Jennifer, Jul 27, 2014, SECTOR RELATEDNESS, REVEALED COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES AND PRODUCTION IN GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS, 15th International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society (ISS) Conference, 27‐30 July 2014 in Jena, Germany
Ritzen, Jo, Gabriele Marconi & Simone Sasso, 2014, University Policy Needs To Beef Up For Europe To Be More Innovative, Empower European Universities, More information
Gault, Fred, 2014, ¿Cuál es el destino de los indicadores de innovación y sus aplicaciones?, in: Rodolfo Barrere y Mónica Salazar (Editores), Temas de Indicadores de Ciencia y Technologia, RICYT, Buenos Aires
Crass, Dirk, 2014, The Impact of Brands on Innovation and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Germany
, PhD dissertation Maastricht University / United Nations University
Grazzi, Matteo, Ezequiel Tacsir & Castillo Rafael, Feb 2014, Women in Science and Technology: What Does the Literature Say?, Skill gaps are a key constraint to innovation, hindering productivity growth and economic development. In particular, shortages in the supply of trained professionals in disciplines related to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) may weaken the innovation potential of a society. A wide gender gap has persisted over the years at all levels of STEM disciplines throughout the world. Although the participation of women in higher education has increased, they are still underrepresented. Latin America is no exception. The untapped potential of fully trained and credentialed women represents an important lost opportunity not only for women themselves but also for society as a whole. Although there is growing recognition of the importance of the issue in developing countries, Latin America faces a lack of information that prevents researchers from deepening the understanding of this phenomenon and policymakers from designing effective interventions. This note aims to contribute to the academic and policy debate in the region by reviewing the main factors put forward in the literature to explain gender inequalities in recruitment, retention, and promotion in STEM disciplines and by providing evidence of the scope and results of policies directed to obtain a better gender balance in the sector., More information
Crespi, Gustavo A., Ezequiel Tacsir & Fernando Vargas, Aug 2014, Innovation and Productivity in Services: Empirical Evidence from Latin America, This paper analyzes and compares the determinants of innovation in the service industry and its impact on labor productivity at the firm level in three countries of Latin America (Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay). The main findings show that, similar to what is observed in manufacturing industry, service firms that invest the most in innovation activities are more likely to introduce changes or improvements in their production process and/or product mix, and those firms that innovate have higher labor productivity than non-innovative firms. Size was found to be a less relevant determinant of innovation in services than in manufacturing, suggesting that the need for infrastructure and associated sunk costs are lower in services. Conversely, cooperation was found to be far more important for innovation in services than in manufacturing, in line with the more interactive nature of innovation in services. Yet, large differences in statistical significance and size of the coefficients of explanatory variables among the countries studied suggest that the framework conditions where a firm operates have an important role in innovation decisions., More information
Primi, Annalisa, 2014, Promoting Innovation in Latin America: What Countries Have Learned (and What They Have Not) in Designing and Implementing Innovation and Intellectual Property Police, PhD dessertation Maastricht University / United Nations University, More information
Ramani, Shyama V. & Adam Szirmai, 2014, Innovation in India: The Challenge of Combining Economic Growth with Inclusive Development, in: S. Ramani (ed.), Innovation in India: Combining Economic Growth with Inclusive Development, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139794640.002, More information
Mupela, Evans & Adam Szirmai, 2014, Communication Costs and Trade in Sub Saharan Africa: A Gravity Approach, in: T. F. Bissyandé and G. van Stam (eds.), e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, Springer, Heidelberg
Gebreeyesus, Mulu, Dec 2014, A natural experiment of industrial policy: Floriculture and the metal and engineering industries in Ethiopia, WIDER Working Paper 2014/163, More information
Brown, Alessio J. G., Christian Merkl & Dennis J. Snower, 2014, The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective, Economics Letters, 124(3): 389-931
Azevedo, J. P. , Aziz Atamanov & A. Rajabov, 2014, Poverty reduction and shared prosperity in Tajikistan : a diagnostic, Policy Research Working Paper Series 6923, The World Bank, More information
Azevedo, J. P. & Aziz Atamanov, 2014, Pathways to the middle class in Turkey: how have reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity helped?, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6834. World Bank, More information
Naudé, Wim, 2014, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy, in: Currie-Alder, B.; R. Kanbur, D. Malone and R. Medhora (eds), International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects, Oxford University Press, Oxford
Voeten, Jaap & Wim Naudé, 2014, Regulating the Negative Externalities of Enterprise Cluster Innovations: Lessons from Vietnam, Innovation and Development, 4(2): 203-219
Naudé, Wim & Henri Bezuidenhout, 2014, Migrant Remittances Provide Resilience Against Disasters in Africa, Atlantic Economic Journal, 42(1): 79-90
Naudé, Wim, Ernesto Amorós & Oscar Christi, 2014, Surfeiting, the Appetite May Sicken': Entrepreneurship and Happiness, Small Business Economics Journal, 42(1): 523-540
Burlacu de Paoli, Irina & Cathal O'Donoghue, 2014, “The impact of differential social security systems and taxation on the welfare of frontier workers in the EU”, Journal on Free Movement of Workers, Social Europe, European Commission, 7
Hollanders, Hugo, Nordine Es-Sadki, Lorena Rivera Leon, E. Griniece & L. Roman, 2014, Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2014, Commissioned by the European Commission, DG for Enterprise and Industry, More information
Hollanders, Hugo & Nordine Es-Sadki, 2014, Innovation Union Scoreboard 2014, Commissioned by the European Commission, DG for Enterprise and Industry, More information
Marchand, Katrin & Melissa Siegel, Dec 2014, Immigrant Entrepreneurship
in Cities, Background paper World Migration Report 2015, IOM, More information
Roelen, Keetie & Franziska Gassmann, 2014, Beyond Averages - child well-being in Kazakhstan, Journal of Children and Poverty, 20: 91-110, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10796126.2014.979139, More information
Nour, Samia S. O. M., 2014, Overview of Technology Transfer in Manufacturing Industries in the Arab Countries: the case of UAE and Sudan, in: Allam Ahmed (ed), World Sustainable Development Outlook 2014 and World Association for Sustainable Development Conference Proceedings 2014: “West Meet East: Sharing the Past and Current Experience to Benefit the Future, United Kingdom, (UK)
Nour, Samia S. O. M., 2014, Challenges and Opportunities for transition to a Knowledge- Based Economy in the Arab Region, in: Allam Ahmed (ed), World Sustainable Development Outlook 2014 and World Association for Sustainable Development Conference Proceedings 2014: 'West Meet East: Sharing the Past and Current Experience to Benefit the Future, -, United Kingdom, More information
Nour, Samia S. O. M., 2014, Transition to a Knowledge- Based Economy in the Arab Region, the International Journal of Innovation and Knowledge Management in Middle East and North Africa (IJIKMMENA), 3(2): 125-145
Nour, Samia S. O. M., 2014, Assessment of gender gap in Sudan, the International Journal of Sudan Research (IJSR), 4(1)
Nour, Samia S. O. M., 2014, Prospects for transition to a knowledge-based economy in the Arab region, World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 11(4), More information
Nour, Samia S. O. M., 2014, The importance (impacts) of knowledge at the macro-micro levels in the Arab Gulf countries, the Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 5(3)
Nour, Samia S. O. M., 2014, Regional Systems of Innovation and Economic Structure in the Arab Region, the Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 5(3)
Habiyaremye, Alexis & Tarik Oguzlu, 2014, Turkish Engagement with Africa: Making Sense of Turkey’s Approach in the Context of Growing East-West Rivalry, International Relations, 11(41): 65-85
Wolter, Ingo & Kirsten Wiebe, 2014, TINFORGE - Trade for the INterindustry FORecasting GErmany Model (with A. Grossmann and A. Moennig), GWS Discussion Paper 14/1, More information
Wolter, Ingo, 2014, TINFORGE - Trade for the INterindustry FORecasting GErmany Model, GWS Discussion Paper 14/1, More information
Vanore, Michaella, Valentina Mazzucato & Melissa Siegel, 2014, ‘Left behind’ but not left alone: Parental migration & the psychosocial health of children in Moldova, Social Science & Medicine, 132: 252-260, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.08.040, More information
Loschmann, Craig, Katherine Kuschminder & Melissa Siegel, 2014, The root causes of movement: Exploring the determinants of Irregular Migration from Afghanistan, Irregular Migration Research Programme Occasional Paper Series 11|2014, More information
Kanerva, Minna, Oct 15, 2014, About acceptance of radical change in meat eating practices - Insects and cultured meat, Presentation at the ERSCP 2014 conference in Portorož, Slovenia, 14-16 October
Burlacu de Paoli, Irina & Cathal O'Donoghue, 2014, The impact of differential social security systems and taxation on the welfare of frontier workers in the EU, Journal on Free Movement of Workers, 7, More information
Burlacu de Paoli, Irina, Cathal O'Donoghue & Denisa Maria Sologon, 2014, Hypothetical Microsimulation Model, in: O’Donoghue C. (Ed), Handbook on Microsimulation, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK
Burlacu de Paoli, Irina, 2014, Three-layered policy filter as a measurement tool for frontier workers’ welfare, in: Olenski J. (Ed.), Foundations of Transborder Economics and Statistics, Intersentia, UK
Timuş, Natalia, 2014, Internationalizing the Curriculum by Connecting Learners across Geographic Boundaries: Turning the Challenge into the Advantage, in: A. Dailey-Hebert (ed.), Reframing Higher Education: The Transformation of People, Processes, and Perspectives in the New Academy, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany
Timuş, Natalia, 2014, Transnational Party Europeanization: EPP and Ukrainian parties, Acta Politica, 49: 51-70, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/ap.2013.25, More information
Engbersen, G. , L. Bakker, M. B. Erdal & Özge Bilgili, 2014, Transnationalism in a Comparative Perspective, Comparative Migration Studies, 2(3): 255-260, More information
Bilgili, Özge, 2014, Migrants’ Multi-Sited Social Lives, Comparative Migration Studies, 2(3): 283-304, More information