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2016-059: Formal and informal appropriation mechanisms: the role of openness and innovativeness

Ann-Kristin Zobel, Boris Lokshin and John Hagedoorn

2016-058: Innovation System in Development: The Case of Peru

Pluvia Zuniga

2016-057: Poverty reduction strategies in Canada: A new way to tackle an old problem?

Geranda Notten and Rachel Laforest

2016-056: Corruption, innovation and firm growth: Firm-level evidence from Egypt and Tunisia

Micheline Goedhuys, Pierre Mohnen and Tamer Taha

2016-055: Three decades of publishing research in population economics

Alessio Brown and Klaus Zimmermann

2016-054: Trade liberalisation and child labour in China

Liqui Zhao, Fei Wang and Zhong Zhao

2016-053: Fueling conflict?: (De)escalation and bilateral aid

Richard Bluhm, Martin Gassebner, Sarah Langlotz and Paul Schaudt

2016-052: The invisible hand of informal (educational) communication!?: Social capital considerations on Twitter conversations among teachers

Martin Rehm and Ad Notten

2016-051: A 'healthy immigrant effect' or a 'sick immigrant effect'? Selection and policies matter

Amelie Constant, Teresa M. García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman and Tzahi Neuman

2016-050: Reservation wages of first- and second-generation migrants

Amelie Constant, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

2016-049: Demographic dynamics and long-run development: Insights for the secular stagnation debate

Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde and Klaus Zimmermann

2016-048: River deep, mountain high: Of long-run knowledge trajectories within and between innovation clusters

Onder Nomaler and Bart Verspagen

2016-047: The impact of household labor-saving technologies along the family life cycle

Raquel Tsukada and Arnaud Dupuy

2016-046: The impact of piped water supply on household welfare

Raquel Tsukada and Degol Hailu

2016-045: The impact of rainwater harvesting on household labor supply

Raquel Tsukada and Christian Lehmann

2016-044: Gini coefficients of education for 146 countries, 1950-2010

Thomas Ziesemer

2016-043: Entrepreneurial heterogeneity and the design of entrepreneurship policies for economic growth and inclusive development

Elisa Calza and Micheline Goedhuys

2016-042: Diaspora economics: New perspectives

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

2016-041: The chips are down: The influence of family on children's trust formation

Corrado Giulietti, Enrico Rettore and Sara Tonini

2016-040: Natural disasters and human mobility

Linguere Mbaye and Klaus Zimmermann

2016-038: Home sweet home? Macroeconomic conditions in home countries and the well-being of migrants

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier Bargain and Klaus Zimmermann

2016-037: Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mental health

Shyamal Chowdhury, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus and Klaus Zimmermann

2016-036: Child labour in China

Can Tang, Liqiu Zhao and Zhong Zhao

2016-035: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Did they change social reality?

Janyl Moldalieva, Arip Muttaqien, Choolwe Muzyamba, Davina Osei, Eli Stoykova and Nga Le Thi Quynh

2016-034: The role of innovation and management practices in determining firm productivity in developing economies

Wiebke Bartz, Pierre Mohnen and Helena Schweiger

2016-033: Social welfare benefits and their impacts on labour market participation among men and women in Mongolia

Franziska Gassmann, Daphne Francois and Lorena Zardo Trindade

2016-032: The effects of productivity and benefits on unemployment: Breaking the link

Alessio Brown, Britta Kohlbrecher, Christian Merkl and Dennis J. Snower

2016-031: The determinanths of industrialisation in developing countries, 1960-2005

Francesca Guadagno

2016-030: The effect of means-tested social transfers on labour supply: heads versus spouses - An empirical analysis of work disincentives in the Kyrgyz Republic

Franziska Gassmann and Lorena Zardo Trindade

2016-029: Determinants of citation impact: A comparative analysis of the Global South versus the Global North

Hugo Confraria, Manuel Godinho and Lili Wang

2016-028: Mimetic behaviour and institutional persistence: A two-armed bandit experiment

Stefania Innocenti and Robin Cowan

2016-027: The affordability of the Sustainable Development Goals: A myth or reality?

Patima Chongcharoentanawat, Kaleab Haile, Bart Kleine Deters, Tamara Kool and Victor Osei Kwadwo

2016-026: Globalisation, technology and the labour market: A microeconometric analysis for Turkey

Elena Meschi, Erol Taymaz and Marco Vivarelli

2016-025: Fading hope and the rise in inequality in the United States

Jo Ritzen and Klaus Zimmermann

2016-024: Including excluded groups: The slow racial transformation of the South African university system

Helena Barnard, Robin Cowan, Alan Kirman and Moritz Müller

2016-023: A new indicator for innovation clusters

George Christopoulos and Rene Wintjes

2016-022: Public policy and mental health: What we can learn from the HIV movement

David Scheerer, Zina Nimeh and Stefan Weinmann

2016-021: International standards certification, institutional voids and exports from developing country firms

Micheline Goedhuys and Leo Sleuwagen

2016-020: Multinational enterprises and economic development in host countries: What we know and what we don't know

Rajneesh Narula and André Pineli

2016-019: The impact of ex-ante subsidies to researchers on researcher's productivity: Evidence from a developing country

Diego Aboal and Ezequiel Tacsir

2016-018: Migration, occupation and education: Evidence from Ghana

Clotilde Mahe and Wim Naudé

2016-017: Technological Innovation Systems and the wider context: A framework for developing countries

Hans Edsand

2016-016: Structural transformation in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS)

Wim Naudé, Adam Szirmai and Nobuya Haraguchi

2016-015: Structural decompositions of energy consumption, energy intensity, emissions and emission intensity - A sectoral perspective: empirical evidence from WIOD over 1995 to 2009

Sheng Zhong

2016-014: The dynamics of vehicle energy efficiency: Evidence from the Massachusetts Vehicle Census

Sheng Zhong

2016-013: The role of technological trajectories in catching-up-based development: An application to energy efficiency technologies

Sheng Zhong and Bart Verspagen

2016-012: Management standard certification and firm productivity: micro-evidence from Africa

Micheline Goedhuys and Pierre Mohnen

2016-011: Inclusive labour market: A role for a job guarantee scheme

Saskia Klosse and Joan Muysken

2016-010: On the optimum timing of the global carbon-transition under conditions of extreme weather-related damages: further green paradoxical results

Adriaan van Zon

2016-009: Aid, institutions and economic growth: Heterogeneous parameters and heterogeneous donors

Hassen Wako