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Tiit Tammaru (PhD)<br />
is Professor of Urban and Population<br />
Geography at the University of Tartu.<br />
His main fields of research are population<br />
migration and sub-topics related<br />
thereto: migration and the changes<br />
in the Estonian diaspora in time and<br />
space; urbanisation, suburbanisation<br />
and counter-urbanisation; housing<br />
conditions, changing neighbourhoods<br />
and segregation. He has also examined<br />
the mutual connections between<br />
the spatial location of ethnic groups<br />
and integration.<br />
Urmas Varblane<br />
is an academician, Professor at the<br />
University of Tartu, Head of the Chair<br />
of International Business and Innovation,<br />
and Candidate of Economics.<br />
The main directions of his research<br />
include the following: the internationalisation<br />
of Estonia businesses,<br />
the role of direct foreign investments<br />
in the economy, the state’s innovation<br />
system and innovation policy, productivity<br />
and competitive of the branches<br />
of the economy.<br />
Erik Terk (PhD)<br />
is Director of Tallinn University’s<br />
Institute for Future Studies, and Professor<br />
of Future Studies and Strategic<br />
Management at the same university’s<br />
Institute of Political Science and Governance.<br />
His fields of research include<br />
the compilation of development scenarios<br />
for states and regions, and<br />
developments in Estonia viewed in a<br />
geo-economic context.<br />
Peeter Vihalemm<br />
is a Senior Researcher of Media Studies<br />
at the University of Tartu, Professor<br />
Emeritus, and Candidate of Psychology.<br />
His main fields of research include societal<br />
changes in transitional Estonia,<br />
the media system and media use in<br />
Estonia, and the international social<br />
space in the Baltic Sea Region.<br />
Anu Toots<br />
is Professor of Comparative Public<br />
Policy at Tallinn University’s Institute<br />
of Political Science and Governance.<br />
Her research interests are related to<br />
the contemporary problems of welfare<br />
states, including the concept of the<br />
welfare state as a state comprised<br />
of social investments. Within the<br />
framework of educational policy, she<br />
is involved with the IEA’s international<br />
studies of educational achievement<br />
and coordinated the IEA Civic and<br />
Citizenship Education Study between<br />
1999 and 2009.<br />
Andres Võrk<br />
is Lecturer of Econometrics in the<br />
Department of Economics at the<br />
University of Tartu and Analyst of<br />
Labour and Social Policy at the Praxis<br />
Center for Policy Studies. His fields of<br />
research include the impact of Estonian<br />
labour and social policies on the<br />
labour market and the sustainability of<br />
social security. He is the author of several<br />
applied research studies dealing<br />
with the Estonian labour market and<br />
social policies.<br />
Uku Varblane (MA)<br />
is an analyst in the Centre for Applied<br />
Research at the University of Tartu<br />
and a PhD candidate in the Department<br />
of Economics at the University<br />
of Tartu. His fields of research are<br />
concerned primarily with topics related<br />
to productivity, innovation and direct<br />
foreign investments.<br />
Estonian Human Development Report 2012/2013<br />
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