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Highly skilled temporary return, technological change and Innovation: The Case of the TRQN Project in Afghanistan
Kuschminder, Katie; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
Using the specific case of the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) Temporary Return of Qualified Nationals (TRQN) project, this paper illustrates the effect the short-term return of highly qualified migrants abroad can have on capacity building in the origin country through...
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A Knowledge Economy Paradigm and its Consequences
Soete, Luc - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
During the 1980s and 1990s "Active labour" market reforms opened up labour markets in Europe, making them more flexible without putting in jeopardy the essence of the social security protection model. Countries that went furthest in such "active labour" market reforms such as the UK, the...
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Foreign Ownership, Technological Capabilities and Exports: Evidence from 205 Clothing Firms in Sri Lanka
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
Sri Lanka was the earliest South Asian economy to introduce economic reforms to attract export-oriented FDI. The rise of clothing production for export, apparently mainly driven by foreign firms, is regarded as a major outcome of the reforms. This paper seeks to examine a range of factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712078
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Strategies in ICT SMEs in Enlarged Europe (EU25)
Lal, Kaushalesh; Dunnewijk, Theo - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
Innovation strategies of entrepreneurs are mapped with growth and performance of their firms in this study. Findings of the study are based on the data collected from 1238 small ICT firms located in 25 member states of European Union. The survey was conducted during October 2006 and March 2007....
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Promoting return and circular migration of the highly skilled
Hercog, Metka; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
Migration of skilled workers from developing countries has increased substantially in recent years. Traditionally, such patterns raised fears on the ground of the associated 'brain drain' as human capital formation is considered to be of central importance to the development and reduction of...
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Earnings Mobility in Europe: 1994-2001 : Do more flexible labour markets experience a higher earnings mobility?
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
The economic reality of the 1990s in Europe forced the labour markets to become more flexible. Using a consistent comparative dataset for 14 European countries, the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), we explore the evolution and the cross-national differences in earnings mobility across...
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Shaping earnings instability: labour market policy and institutional factors
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
The concerns regarding the economic insecurity stemming from earnings instability have been gaining momentum in the contemporary political discourse. If earnings instability is as a proxy for risk, for risk-averse individuals, increasing earnings instability bears substantial welfare costs....
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Flexibility and innovation in response to emerging infectious diseases: Reactions to multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis in India
Engel, Nora - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
flexibility and innovation in public health systems is needed in order to react to changing challenges. This paper will take these … innovation and flexibility of a public health system in a country like India. The discussions and reactions to MDR-TB indicate … that arguments for flexibility meet constraints of the existing control system and the Indian public health and wider …
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Does technology affect network structure? - A quantitative analysis of collaborative research projects in two specific EU programmes
Roediger-Schluga, Thomas; Dachs, Bernhard - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
The promotion of collaborative R&D through Framework Programmes is a top priority of European RTD policy. However, despite the considerable sums involved, surprisingly little is known about the structure of the resulting research networks. Arguing that the underlying technological regime...
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Running The Marathon
Cowan, William; Cowan, Robin; Llerena, Patrick - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
Over the twentieth century universities in the industrialized world have evolved from being "universities of culture" to "universities of innovation." Policy makers and universities themselves see that one of their major roles is supporting industrial innovation and thus economic growth. We...
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