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2021-029: Simulating the impact of a raise in education salaries on economic growth in Peru

Luciano Paredes Chervellini and Jo Ritzen

2021-028: Women's empowerment in Colombia: A multidimensional approach

Esmeralda Rodríguez Guerrero, Zina Nimeh and Andrea Franco Correa

2021-027: Religiosity, smoking and other addictive behaviours

Monica Roman, Klaus Zimmermann and Aurelian-Petrus Plopeanu

2021-026: Knowledge transfer activities and conditions for impact in Bulgarian public research institutions: A survey-based diagnostic

Anwar Aridi, Daniel Querejazu and Pluvia Zuniga

2021-025: The effectiveness of innovation policy and the moderating role of market competition: Evidence from Latin American firms

Jose Miguel Benavente and Pluvia Zuniga

2021-024: How does market competition affect firm innovation incentives in emerging countries? Evidence from Latin American firms

Jose Miguel Benavente and Pluvia Zuniga

2021-023: A map of the fractal structure of high-tech dynamics across EU regions

Ariel Wirkierman, Tommaso Ciarli and Maria Savonna

2021-022: Powering structural transformation and productivity gains in Africa: The role of global value chains and resource endowments

Solomon Owusu

2021-021: Supporting academic advising through self-directed, blended learning

Mindel van de Laar, Katerina N. Triantos and Lutz Krebs

2021-020: A taxonomy of European innovation clubs

Ariel Wirkierman, Tommaso Ciarli and Maria Savonna

2021-019: How different are necessity and opportunity firms? Evidence from a quantile analysis of the Colombian microenterprise sector

Omar Rodriguez Torres

2021-018: Does entrepreneurship increase the chance of the poor?

Omar Rodriguez Torres

2021-017: The influence of value-chain governance on innovation performance: A study of Italian suppliers

Emanuele Brancati, Carlo Pietrobelli and Caio Torres Mazzi

2021-016: Will the AI revolution be labour-friendly? Some micro evidence from the supply side

Giacomo Damioli, Vincent Van Roy, Daniel Vertesy and Marco Vivarelli

2021-015: Foreign R&D spillovers to the USA and strategic reactions

Thomas Ziesemer

2021-014: Do pandemics lead to rebellion? Policy responses to COVID-19, inequality, and protests in the USA

Francesco Iacoella, Patricia Justino and Bruno Martorano

2021-013: How social assistance affects subjective Well-being: Lessons from Kyrgyzstan

Franziska Gassmann, Bruno Martorano and Jennifer Waidler

2021-012: Do institutions and ideology matter for economic growth in Latin America in the first two decades of the 21st century?

Pamela L. Navarrete Gallo and Jo Ritzen

2021-011: What makes a productive Ph.D. student?

Alberto Corsini, Michele Pezzoni and Fabiana Visentin

2021-010: Mobile phones and HIV testing: Multi-country evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Francesco Iacoella and Nyasha Tirivayi

2021-009: Attitudes towards inequality in Brazil: An analysis of a highly unequal country

Cintia Denise Granja and Ana Maria Carneiro

2021-008: COVID-19 policy responses, mobility, and food prices: Evidence from local markets in 47 low to middle income countries

Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano and Georg Schmerzeck

2021-007: Deepening or delinking? Innovative capacity and global value chain participation in the ICT sectors

Rasmus Lema, Carlo Pietrobelli, Roberta Rabellotti and Antonio Vezzani

2021-006: Macroeconomic stimulus packages and income inequality in developing countries: Lessons from the 2007-9 Great Recession for the Covid-19 crisis in South Africa

Alexis Habiyaremye, Peter Jacobs, Olebogeng Molewa and Pelontle Lekomanyane

2021-005: Patent landscaping using 'green' technological trajectories

Önder Nomaler and Bart Verspagen

2021-004: Democracy and COVID-19 Outcomes

Gokhan Karabulut, Klaus Zimmermann, Mehmet Bilgin and Asli Cansin Doker

2021-003: Labour-augmenting technical change data for alternative elasticities of substitution, growth, slowdown, and distribution dynamics

Thomas Ziesemer

2021-002: Access to social protection for platform and other non-standard workers: A literature review

Tamara Kool, Giulio Bordon and Franziska Gassmann

2021-001: Transformation towards sustainable development goals: Role of innovation ecosystems for inclusive, disruptive advances in five Asian case studies

Michiko Iizuka and Gerald Hane

2020-057: Once the great lockdown is lifted: Post COVID-19 options for the economy

Jozef M. Ritzen

2020-056: The rise of the service sector in the global economy

Solomon Owusu, Adam Szirmai and Neil Foster-McGregor

2020-055: Community multiculturalism and self-reported immigrant crime: Testing three theoretical mechanisms

Arjen Leerkes, Tineke Fokkema and Jonathan Bening

2020-054: Women, leadership and violent extremism: A potential security risk?

Aurélie Wertz and Dorcas Mbuvi

2020-053: Rethinking humanitarian aid & making the case for humanitarian social protection: A response to the 2019 Global Refugee Forum

Zina Nimeh, Tamara Kool, Francesco Iacoella and Alex Huns

2020-052: Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China

Shuai Chu, Xiangquan Zeng and Klaus Zimmermann

2020-051: Social assimilation and labour market outcomes of migrants in China

Shu Cai and Klaus Zimmermann

2020-050: Addressing the productivity paradox with big data: A literature review and adaptation of the CDM econometric model

Torben Schubert, Angela Jäger, Serdar Türkeli and Fabiana Visentin

2020-049: Schumpeter and Keynes: Economic growth in a super-multiplier model

Önder Nomaler, Danilo Spinola and Bart Verspagen

2020-048: Economic adjustment during the Great Recession: The role of managerial quality

Gilbert Cette, Jimmy Lopez, Jacques Mairesse and Giuseppe Nicoletti

2020-047: Inter-sectoral and international R&D spillovers

Rene Belderbos and Pierre Mohnen

2020-046: Does value chain participation facilitate the adoption of industry 4.0 technologies in developing countries?

Michele Delera, Carlo Pietrobelli, Elisa Calza and Alejandro Lavopa

2020-045: Is sub-Saharan Africa deindustrializing?

Emmanuel Mensah

2020-044: The role of domestic-firm knowledge in foreign R&D collaborations: Evidence from co-patenting in Indian firms

Nanditha Mathew, Lorenzo Napolitano and Ugo Rizzo

2020-043: Roots of dissent: Trade liberalization and the rise of populism in Brazil

Francesco Iacoella, Patrica Justino and Bruno Martorano

2020-042: Intra-EU migration: Shedding light on drivers, corridors and the relative importance of migrant characteristics

Miriam Mack, Sarah Roeder, Katrin Marchand and Melissa Siegel

2020-041: Stagnant manufacturing growth in India: The role of the informal economy

Gbenoukpo Robert Djidonou and Neil Foster-McGregor

2020-040: Automation, globalisation and relative wages: An empirical analysis of winners and losers

Antonio Francesco Gravina and Neil Foster-McGregor

2020-039: Does gender matter for promotion in science? Evidence from physicists in France

Jacques Mairesse, Michele Pezzoni and Fabiana Visentin

2020-038: The role of innovation in industrial dynamics and productivity growth: a survey of the literature

Mehmet Ugur and Marco Vivarelli

2020-037: Self-selection in physical and mental health among older intra-European migrants

Amelie Constant and Nadja Milewski