Huub Meijers

Senior Researcher at UNU-MERIT, United Nations University & Maastricht University
Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Maastricht University

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16 November 2009

Huub Meijers is senior researcher at MERIT and associate professor at the economics department of the University Maastricht.

He has a Bachelors degree in engineering, a Bachelor and Master degree in economics, and a PhD in economics. In the past, his research focused on the diffusion of new technologies in which he developed new methods to measure the diffusion of new technologies at a macro-economic level. Before that, he worked as a research assistant mainly on labour market issues and on the economics of technological change.

He has been involved in several projects mainly dealing with the relation between the labour market and technological change. Currently he is working on projects concerning the Information Society in which he investigates the influence of new information and communications technologies on employment, growth, productivity, prices and the tax base. He also focuses on several measurement issues concerning the information society. He is a researcher at MERIT since 1994 and he has a position as senior researcher since 1999. From 2000 until 2006 he was program leader of the e-society research unit of the International Institute of Infonomics. From the beginning of 2000 he is coordinator of the Infonomics study programme (Bachelors and Masters) within the Faculty of Economic and Business at the University Maastricht. Next to curriculum design and he is also responsible for several courses within this programme.

New Book Publication

Internationalisation of European ICT Activities

H. Meijers, B. Dachs, P. Welfens: Internationalisation of European ICT Activities: Dynamics of Information and Communications Technology. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

This book is based on the final report of a study carried out for carried out for the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) of the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission, on the Internationalisation of European ICT activities. UNU-MERIT researchers Theo Dunnewijk and Huub Meijers, have contributed a chapter on "Empirical Analysis of the Competitive Trade Position," while Rene Wintjes wrote the chapter "From Case Studies: International Division of Labour Within ICT Companies."

ISBN: 978-3-540-77108-1 (Print) 978-3-540-77109-8 (Online)
Online available at: Springer Verlag

Some recent work

Borghans, Lex, Bart H. H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman, Huub Meijers, 2009, “Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion”, Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 7, No. 2-3, pp. 649–658. (Version: october 2008.

Borghans, Lex, Huub Meijers, and Bas Ter Weel, 2008, “The Role Of Noncognitive Skills In Explaining Cognitive Test Scores”, Economic Inquiry, Volume 46, Issue 1 , pp. 2–12. pdf

"ICT Externalities: Evidence from cross country data", June 2007, UNU-MERIT Working paper nr. 2007-021. pdf

"Diffusion of the Internet and Low Inflation in the Information Economy", Information Economics and Policy , Volume 18, Issue 1, pp. 1-23, March 2006 [available online since 3 March 2005]. pdf