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2019-039: The future of work and its implications for social protection and the welfare state

Franziska Gassmann and Bruno Martorano

2019-038: Regulation and innovation under Industry 4.0: Case of medical/healthcare robot, HAL by Cyberdyne

Michiko Iizuka and Yoko Ikeda

2019-037: Does it pay to do novel science? The selectivity patterns in science funding

Charles Ayoubi, Michele Pezzoni and Fabiana Visentin

2019-036: The effects of R&D subsidies and publicly performed R&D on business R&D: A survey

Thomas Ziesemer

2019-035: A comment on the multifaceted relationship between multinational enterprises and within-country inequality

Rajneesh Narula and Khadija Van der Straaten

2019-034: Enforcing higher labour standards within developing country value chains: Consequences for MNEs and informal actors in a dual economy

Rajneesh Narula

2019-033: The Potential for innovation in mining value chains. Evidence from Latin America

Michiko Iizuka, Carlo Pietrobelli and Fernando Vargas

2019-032: Testing the employment and skill impact of new technologies: A survey and some methodological issues

Laura Barbieri, Chiara Mussida, Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

2019-031: Modern industrial policy in Latin America: Lessons from cluster development policies

Carlo Pietrobelli

2019-030: The decline in entrepreneurship in the West: Is complexity ossifying the economy?

Wim Naudé

2019-029: Japan's productivity and GDP growth: The role of GBAORD, public and foreign R&D

Thomas Ziesemer

2019-028: Imported intermediates, technological capabilities and exports: Evidence from Brazilian firm-level data

Caio Torres Mazzi and Neil Foster-McGregor

2019-027: Measuring attitudes on gender equality and domestic violence in the Arab context: The role of framing, priming and interviewer effects

Ann-Kristin Reitmann, Micheline Goedhuys, Michael Grimm and Eleonora E.M. Nillesen

2019-026: Characterizing growth instability: new evidence on unit roots and structural breaks in long run time series

Emanuele Russo, Neil Foster-McGregor and Bart Verspagen

2019-025: Semi-endogenous growth models with domestic and foreign private and public R&D linked to VECMs

Thomas Ziesemer

2019-024: Far from random?: The role of homophily in student supervision

Giulia Rossello and Robin Cowan

2019-023: No evidence of an oil curse: Natural resource abundance, capital formation and productivity

Mueid Al Raee, Denis De Crombrugghe and Jo Ritzen

2019-022: Technical progress and structural change: a long-term view

Alessandro Nuvolari and Emanuele Russo

2019-021: Can we have growth when population is stagnant? Testing linear growth rate formulas and their cross-unit cointegration of non-scale endogenous growth models

Thomas Ziesemer

2019-020: Embodied and disembodied technological change: the sectoral patterns of job-creation and job-destruction

Giovanni Dosi, Mariacristina Piva, Maria Enrica Virgillito and Marco Vivarelli

2019-019: The employment impact of product innovations in sub-Saharan Africa: Firm-level evidence

Elvis Avenyo, Maty Konte and Pierre Mohnen

2019-018: The role of early-career university prestige stratification on the future academic performance of scholars

Mario Gonzalez Sauri and Giulia Rossello

2019-017: Domestic intellectual property rights protection and exports: Accessing the credit channel

Gideon Ndubuisi

2019-016: R&D, innovation and productivity

Pierre Mohnen

2019-015: How has globalisation affected the economic growth, structural change and poverty reduction linkages? Insights from international comparisons

Aradhna Aggarwal

2019-014: Brazilian exporters and the rise of Global Value Chains: an empirical assessment

Caio Torres Mazzi

2019-013: What a firm produces matters: diversi cation, coherence and performance of Indian manufacturing

Giovanni Dosi, Nanditha Mathew and Emanuele Pugliese

2019-012: The breadth of preferential trade agreements and the margins of exports

Rodney Falvey and Neil Foster-McGregor

2019-011: Job automation risk, economic structure and trade: a European perspective

Neil Foster-McGregor, Önder Nomaler and Bart Verspagen

2019-010: Migration of higher education students from North Africa Region

Samia Satti Osman Mohamed Nour

2019-009: Knowledge Economy and Economic Development in the Arab Region

Samia Satti Osman Mohamed Nour

2019-008: Health insurance and self-employment transitions in Vietnam

Nga Le, Wim Groot, Sonila M. Tomini and Florian Tomini

2019-007: The impact of a mathematics computer-assisted learning platform on students' mathematics test scores

Marcelo Perera and Diego Aboal

2019-006: The middle-technology trap: The case of the automotive industry in Turkey

Semih Akçomak and Serkan Bürken

2019-005: The race against the robots and the fallacy of the giant cheesecake: Immediate and imagined impacts of artificial intelligence

Wim Naudé

2019-004: FDI, multinationals and structural change in developing countries

Andre Pineli, Rajneesh Narula and Rene Belderbos

2019-003: What gains and distributional implications result from trade liberalization?

Maria Bas and Caroline Paunov

2019-002: Do young innovative companies create more jobs? Evidence from Pakistani textile firms

Waqar Wadho, Micheline Goedhuys and Azam Chaudry

2019-001: From "destructive creation" to "creative destruction": Rethinking Science, Technology and innovation in a global context

Luc Soete

2018-071: The economic impacts of a social pension on recipient households with unequal access to markets in Uganda

Maria Klara Kuss, Patrick Llewellin and Franziska Gassmann

2018-047: Artificial intelligence, jobs, inequality and productivity: Does aggregate demand matter?

Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé

2018-046: Estimating the effects of robotization on exports

Gideon Ndubuisi and Elvis Avenyo

2018-045: Structural transformation in Africa: New technologies, resurgent entrepreneurship and the revival of manufacturing

Wim Naudé

2018-044: Can we have growth when population is stagnant? Testing linear growth rate formulas of non-scale endogenous growth models

Thomas Ziesemer

2018-043: Thailand's vocational training and upward mobility: Impact Heterogeneity and Policy Implications

Patima Chongcharoentanawat, Franziska Gassmann and Pierre Mohnen

2018-042: Making ideas work for society: University cooperation in knowledge transfer

Jo Ritzen

2018-041: Top Lights: Bright cities and their contribution to economic development

Richard Bluhm and Melanie Krause

2018-040: Health insurance and patient satisfaction: Evidence from the poorest regions of Vietnam

Nga Le, Wim Groot, Sonila Tomini and Florian Tomini

2018-039: Health insurance and self-employment transitions in Vietnam: A multinomial analysis

Nga Le, Wim Groot, Sonila Tomini and Florian Tomini

2018-038: Innovation in Global Value Chains

Rasmus Lema, Carlo Pietrobelli and Roberta Rabellotti