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The Great Recession and Life Satisfaction: The Unique Decline for Americans Approaching Retirement Age [PDF]
, 2018 During the 2007-09 Great Recession, the American economic environment was bleak: unemployment roughly doubled, median household incomes fell 5 per cent, average household net worth declined by a third, and consumer spending dropped markedly.
Cabacungan, Amanda +2 more
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The Rise of Mechanobiology for Advanced Cell Engineering and Manufacturing
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.With the growing demand for cell‐based therapies, efficient cellular engineering is crucial. This review calls for greater recognition of mechanobiology principles applied through advanced biomaterial designs, mechanical confinement, and highlights recent advances using micro/nanotechnologies to enhance cell manufacturing.
Huan Ting Ong +8 more
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The Great Depression and the Great Recession: A Comparative Analysis of their Analogies [PDF]
The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014 The decades preceding the Great Depression and the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis have close similarities. Both decades were characterized by rapid growth without major contractions, by an increase in liquidity, a lack of inflation, and a generalized ...
Cristina Peicuti
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Longitudinal and life course studies, 2019 This paper reviews evidence on young people in Europe and the US making the transition from school-to-work before and after the 2008 Great Recession. Taking a macro-level perspective, similarities and differences in education and employment experiences
I. Schoon, J. Bynner
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Wealth Inequality and the Great Recession [PDF]
Intereconomics, 2016 The study of wealth and wealth inequality has received far less attention than income, but the increasing importance of wealth, debt and wealth inequality means closer attention must be paid to their concomitant dynamics. Policy interventions to reduce economic inequality continue to target income more than wealth, but targeting the latter – especially
Bogliacino F., Maestri V.
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Adjusting Cell‐Surface Interactions Through a Covalent Immobilization of Biomolecules
Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.This review presents an overview of current and emerging immobilization techniques coupled with an in‐depth investigation of the underlying mechanisms governing the activity and stability of covalently immobilized biomolecules. The aim of this study is to serve as a guide for the development of long‐lasting biomedical coatings with versatile biological
Sara Shakibania +2 more
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The Great Recession, unemployment and suicide [PDF]
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2014 BackgroundHow have suicide rates responded to the marked increase in unemployment spurred by the Great Recession? Our paper puts this issue into a wider perspective by assessing (1) whether the unemployment-suicide link is modified by the degree of unemployment protection, and (2) whether the effect on suicide of the present crisis differs from the ...
Hans Grönqvist, Thor Norström
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Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.This review summarizes the development of atomic force microscopy‐based local anodic oxidation technology for patterning 2D materials, discussing its mechanisms, applications in nanolithography and device fabrication, key influencing factors, existing challenges, and future prospects in nano‐designs.
Jing Yu +5 more
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Working Stiff(s) on Reality Television during the Great Recession
Societies, 2012 This essay traces some of the narratives and cultural politics of work on reality television after the economic crash of 2008. Specifically, it discusses the emergence of paid labor shows like Ax Men, Black Gold and Coal and a resurgent interest in ...
Sean Brayton
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The Great Recession & the Great Depression [PDF]
Daedalus, 2010 In the depths of the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes wrote that “[p]racticalmen, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”1 This acute observation is applicable to our current Great Recession as well. In fact, the newly discredited ideas are not all that different
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