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Attracting and embedding R&D by multinational firms: policy recommendations for EU new member states

Narula, Rajneesh - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

This paper asks: what can governments of new member states do to encourage MNEs to invest in R&D? There are two types of MNE R&D. Innovation can be undertaken in order to adapt its existing products and services to local stimuli. This is 'demand-driven R&D'. Innovation can also be in stand-alone...

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Paying informally for public health care in Albania: scarce resources or governance failure?

Tomini, Sonila; Groot, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

Informal payments for health care are common in most former communist countries. This paper explores the demand side of these payments in Albania. Using tobit and Heckman selection models we control for individual determinants of informal payments in outpatient and inpatient health care....

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Chronic and transitory poverty in the Kyrgyz Republic: What can synthetic panels tell us?

Bierbaum, Mira; Gassmann, Franziska - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

The Kyrgyz Republic has enjoyed remarkable success in poverty reduction in recent years. Poverty headcounts were halved between 2005 (63.9 per cent) and 2008 (31.3 per cent), before they slightly increased again to 33.7 per cent (2010). However, these aggregate figures mask individual or...

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Size and economies of scale in higher education and the implications for mergers

Tirivayi J.N.; Maasen van den Brink H.; Groot W.N.J. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

,954 students. We find potential opportunities for merging different HEIs relative to their mean sample size public universities by … nearly 190 per cent, private universities by 131 per cent, small colleges by around 952 per cent, and non-US HEIs by about … 118 per cent. However, if we compare with actual sizes of top ranked universities we find that in some parts of the world …

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The influence of ethnic segregation and school mobility in primary education on high school dropout: Evidence from regression discontinuity at a contextual tipping point

Ong, Cheng Boon; De Witte, Kristof - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

This paper investigates the influence of ethnic composition and school mobility at the primary school-level on the propensity to drop out of high school. Using rich school and neighbourhood administrative data, we observe that (i) frequent school movers have a 2.6 times higher likelihood of...

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Short-term effects of new universities on regional innovation

Cowan, Robin; Zinovyeva, N. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

This paper analyzes empirically the channels through which university research affects industry innovation. We examine how the opening of new science, medicine and engineering departments in Italy during 1985-2000 affected regional innovation systems. We find that creation of a new university...

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Internet Access in Africa: An Empirical Exploration

Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji; Adeya, Catherine Nyaki - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2002

structural as well as cost-related factors. Field data from interviews of over two hundred academics in ten universities in Kenya …

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