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Active labour market policies in economies based on tourism: The Balearic Island experience

Cuadernos de Turismo, 2018
Balearic Islands are a European-leading destination but the economic specialization in tourism activities produce dysfunctionalities in the labour market such as seasonality, a high demand of human resources in a short period, low level of educational ...
Francisco Caparrós Alcaráz
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Polychip‐A High‐Throughput Droplet Microfluidics Platform for Interrogating Microbial Interactions

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Polychip, a fully integrated droplet microfluidics platform, enables high‐throughput, single‐cell resolution screening of polymicrobial interactions. By seamlessly combining six automated microfluidics operations on a single chip, the system accelerates antimicrobial discovery by 11 to 14 times compared to traditional robotic methods.
Jeong Jae Han, Adrian Ryan Guzman, Aifen Zhou, Han Zhang, Rohit Gupte, Haemin Jung, Kaylee Delgado, Sini Skariah, Ali Sultan, Arul Jayaraman, Paul de Figueiredo, Arum Han   +11 more
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Sustainable Materials Design With Multi‐Modal Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Critical mineral scarcity, high embodied carbon, and persistent pollution from materials processing intensify the need for sustainable materials design. This review frames the problem as multi‐objective optimization under heterogeneous, high‐dimensional evidence and highlights multi‐modal AI as an enabling pathway.
Tianyi Xu, Tianshuo Wei, Yan Ge, Bo Peng, Yue Li, Maolin Wang, Peng Wen, Chao Yang, Ye Wei   +8 more
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Approaches to Active Labour Market Policy in The Slovak Republic, Czech Republic and in Finland

Communications, 2015
The subject matter of the article consists in the issue of unemployment, which is the problem in many countries. The article describes approaches to the solution of the unemployment from the point of view of several economic specializations in theory ...
Lubica Konusikova, Alzbeta Kucharcikova
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China's Low‐Carbon Energy Transition Over the Past Two Decades: Experiences and Implications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
China's low‐carbon energy transition features a brief decline and subsequent rebound in coal consumption, alongside the rapid expansion of renewable energy. This study develops a stage‐based analytical framework to explain this evolution from the perspectives of economic development, energy security, and environmental sustainability, revealing how ...
Yu Liu, Zhiyu Tian, Zhengxian Zhang, Xinbei Li   +3 more
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang, Lena Kuhn, Hang Xiong, Zhanli Sun, Thomas Glauben   +4 more
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Digitalization and Labour Market: the Role of Profiling in Occupational Transitions

Italian Labour Law e-Journal
The contribution delves into the digitalization of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and public employment services (PES), with a specific focus on the unemployed profiling procedure, as it represents one of the most sensitive processes to ...
Anna Bebber
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Keeping Pace or Falling Behind? The Depth of Latin American Trade Agreements

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether Latin American countries are keeping pace with global trends in trade agreement depth or falling behind. Using 681 agreements (1970–2019), we develop the Depth Index of Trade Agreements (DITA) to weight provisions endogenously through factor analysis based on co‐occurrence patterns.
Raphael Gomes da Silva, Fernanda Aparecida Silva, Lia Nogueira   +2 more
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Exploring the relationship between R&D investment and the labour market outcomes in the OECD countries

Research Papers in Economics and Finance
This paper examines the relationship between labour market outcomes, labour market policies, and investment in R&D in OECD countries from 2011 to 2021. Firstly, the relationships between labour market variables and R&D investment variables were estimated
Katarzyna Woźniak-Jasińska, Włodzimierz Lewoniewski   +1 more
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The labour-augmented K + S model: A laboratory for the analysis of institutional and policy regimes

EconomiA, 2020
In this work we discuss the research findings from the labour-augmented Schumpeter meeting Keynes (K + S) agent-based model. It comprises comparative dynamics experiments on an artificial economy populated by heterogeneous, interacting agents, as workers,
G. Dosi, M.C. Pereira, A. Roventini, M.E. Virgillito   +3 more
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