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Adult Workers in Theory or Practice?

Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2012
This paper examines lone mothers’ participation in active labour market programmes in Germany. Since the 2005 Hartz IV employment and welfare policy reforms, expectations that non-em- ployed parents receiving means-tested benefits should be ready for ...
Cordula Zabel
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Diverting Welfare Paths: Ethnicisation of Unemployment and Public Work in Hungary

e-cadernos ces, 2021
A new vision of “illiberal democracy” was introduced by the Orbán-led Fidesz government in the 2010s, which marked the end of the welfare state, and the central element of the political discourse once again became the creation of a labour-based society ...
Sára Hungler, Ágnes Kende
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag, Janina A. Hoffmann, Tim Rogers, Christian A. Yates   +3 more
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Active labour market policies in emerging adulthood may act as a protective factor against future depressiveness: an analysis of the long-term trajectories of depressive symptoms in the Northern Swedish Cohort

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionDrawing upon the framework of life course epidemiology, this study aligns with research on the mental health consequences of significant social transitions during early adulthood.
Pekka Virtanen, Pekka Virtanen, Tapio Nummi, Hugo Westerlund, Per-Olof Östergren, Urban Janlert, Anne Hammarström, Anne Hammarström   +7 more
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Regional Labour Market Differences in Serbia: Assessment and Policy Recommendations [PDF]

The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007
Creating effective employment policy to combat rising unemployment and widening regional labour market differences is a major task facing Serbian economic policy makers.
Mihail Arandarenko, Milena Jovicic
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Small differences matter: how regional distinctions in educational and labour market policy account for heterogeneity in NEET rates

Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017
Labour market and education policy makers and researchers are increasingly focusing on the NEET indicator as a supplement to the youth unemployment rate.
Johann Bacher, Christina Koblbauer, Heinz Leitgöb, Dennis Tamesberger   +3 more
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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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Can the modernisation of a public employment service be an effective labour market intervention? The Hungarian experience, 2004-2008

European Journal of Government and Economics, 2012
The Public Employment Service often delivers much of the employment policy including active labour market programmes in many member states in the EU, yet we know little about its effectiveness in general.
Zsombor Cseres-Gergely
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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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Political economy and citizen empowerment: Strategies and challenges of Emiratisation in the United Arab Emirates

Acta Commercii, 2016
Orientation:  The United Arab Emirates’ labour market by design is inclined to exclude generally the Emirati population from active participation in the private sector, in order to take advantage of cheap labour primarily from South Asia.
Paul Thompson, Henry Wissink
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