Meijers, Huub
Senior Researcher
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- INSTITUTE:
- UNU-MERIT
- OFFICE:
- Keizer Karelplein 19, 6211 TC Maastricht, The Netherlands
- E-MAIL:
- huub.meijers@maastrichtuniversity.nl
- PHONE:
- +31 43 388 3640
Education
- Ph.D., University Maastricht
Biographical Statement
Huub Meijers is a senior researcher at UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT). His research interests focus on macro-economics, more specifically the modelling of technological change and economic growth; vintage modelling, the diffusion of new technologies; labour market issues; and the Information Society. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1994, which dealt with the introduction of diffusion of new technologies within a putty-clay vintage framework.
Huub Meijers is currently is working on topics concerning the Information Society. This includes research on the implications of new information and communication technologies on statistics and on the way statistical information is collected and assimilated. The main theme however is the relation between ICT investments and productivity growth. Huub Meijers is also the programme coordinator of the infonomics bachelor’s and master’s programme at the faculty of economics and business at the University Maastricht. Next to research and teaching in economics, he also teaches computer programming in php and practices these skills on a neighbourhood website.
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Books
- Internationalisation of European ICT Activities – Dynamics of Information and Communications Technology, ed. Meijers, Huub, Dachs, Bernhard and Welfens, Paul J. J. (Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2008).
Reports
- Borghans, Lex, Meijers, Huub and ter Weel, Bas (2013). The importance of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for measuring IQ. UNU-MERIT.
- Wang, Lili, Meijers, Huub and Szirmai, Adam (2013). Technological spillovers and industrial growth in Chinese regions. UNU-MERIT.
- Meijers, Huub (2012). Does the internet generate economic growth, international trade, or both?. UNU-MERIT.
- Ramani, Shyama V., Frühauf, Timothée, Dutta, Arijita and Meijers, Huub (2012). Determinants of the prevalence of diarrhoea in adolescents attending school: A case study of an Indian village school. UNU-MERIT.
- Dunnewijk, Theo, Meijers, Huub and van Zon, Adriaan (2007). Accounting for the impact of information and communication technologies on total factor productivity: towards and endogenous growth approach. European Communities.
- Meijers, Huub (2007). ICT Externalities: Evidence from cross country data. UNU-MERIT.
- Borghans, Lex, Meijers, Huub and ter Weel, Bas (2006). The Role of Noncognitive Skills in Explaining Cognitive Test Scores. UNU-MERIT.
- Meijers, Huub and Hollanders, Hugo (2003). Sources of Growth: Measuring the Knowledge Based Economy. UNU-MERIT Research Memoranda. UNU-MERIT.
- Meijers, Huub (2001). The diffusion of the Internet and Low Inflation in the Information Economy. UNU-MERIT Research Memoranda. UNU-MERIT.
- van Zon, Adriaan, Meijers, Huub and Muysken, Joan (1998). Sweeping the Chimney before Kindling the Fire as a Workable Option for Employment Policy. UNU-MERIT Research Memoranda. UNU-MERIT.
- van Zon, Adriaan, Meijers, Huub and Muysken, Joan (1997). On Trickling Chimneys and other Unemployment Misery. UNU-MERIT Research Memoranda. UNU-MERIT.
- Meijers, Huub and van Zon, Adriaan (1994). RUM, a Recursive Update Putty-Semi-Putty Vintage Production Model: Sectoral Estimation Results For Germany and the Netherlands. UNU-MERIT Research Memoranda. UNU-MERIT.