Joan Muysken

Joan Muysken is Full Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University Maastricht since 1984. He had many administrative positions at the Faculty, amongst which dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. He studied quantitative economics at the University of Groningen and obtained his PhD degree from the University of Groningen on the aggregation of production functions. Joan was a visiting researcher at the University of Oslo, SUNY Buffalo (USA), the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) and the University of Newcastle (Australia). He is also Director of CofFEE-Europe (see http://www.fdewb.unimaas.nl/algec/coffee-europe/text.htm). Joan published in international journals and books on various aspects of labour economics, unemployment and wage formation and theories of economic growth.

 

Webpage: http://www.fdewb.unimaas.nl/algec/staff/framespages/Muysken/Muysken.htm

 

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Journal Articles

• van Zon, A.H. and J. Muysken (2005) in: Guillem Lopez-Casanovas, Luis Currais and Berta

Rivera, (eds.), Health and Economic Growth, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), pp. 41-66.

• van Zon, A.H. and J. Muysken (2005), The impact of ICT-investment on knowledge accumulation and economic growth, in: L. Soete and B. ter Weel (eds.), The economics of the digital society, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Ltd., pp. 305-329.

• Muysken, J. and Th. Zwick (2006), Wage Divergence and Unemployment: The Impact of Wage Setting Power and Training Costs, Schmollers Jahrbuch, Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, vol. 136(1), pp. 1-19.

• Welters, R. and J. Muysken (2006), Employer Search and Employment Subsidies, Applied Economics, Vol. 38 (12), pp. 1435-1448.

• Muysken, J. and S. Nour (2006), Deficiencies in Education and Poor Prospects for Economic Growth in the Gulf Countries: The Case of the UAE, Journal of Development Studies, vol 42(6), pp. 957-980.

• Mitchell, W.F. and J. Muysken (2006), The Brussels-Frankfurt consensus: An answer to the wrong question, in: W.F. Mitchell, J. Muysken and T. van Veen (eds.), Growth and Cohesion in the European Union (eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp 3-31.

• Welters, R. and J. Muysken (2008), Inferring Employer Search Behaviour from Wage Subsidy Participation, Labour Economics.

 

 

Books

• Mitchell, W.F., J. Muysken and T. van Veen (eds) (2006), Growth and Cohesion in the European Union, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

• Mitchell, W.F., J. Muysken (2008), Full employment abandoned: shifting sands and policy failures, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

 

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