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Changing Tides for the Welfare State - An Essay [PDF]

It has turned out to be difficult to adjust welfare-state arrangements to new circumstances. This paper emphasizes developments in the labor market and changes in the structure and preferences of the family.
Assar Lindbeck
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Strategies to Enhance Ionic Conductivity of Na3Zr2Si2O12 Solid Electrolyte for Advanced Solid‐State Sodium Batteries

Carbon Energy, EarlyView.
This review presents a comprehensive summary and discussion of some optimization strategies for enhancing room‐temperature ionic conductivity of Na3Zr2Si2PO12 (NZSP) solid electrolyte for solid‐state sodium batteries, including foreign‐ion doping or substitution, sintering behavior modulation, and regulation of chemical composition based on precursors.
Jiawen Hu, Zixing Chen, Xi Wang, Changsheng Ding, Yongfeng Li, Yanfeng Gao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Segmentation and regional analysis: labor typologies and geographic inequality in Antofagasta and La Araucanía, Chile. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Blanco O, Julián-Véjar D, Osorio-Rauld A.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Limited Commitment Models of the Labour Market [PDF]

We present an overview of models of long-term self-enforcing labor contracts in which risk sharing is the dominant motive for contractual solutions. A base model is developed which is sufficiently general to encompass the two-agent problem central to ...
Jonathan Thomas, Tim Worrall
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Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher, Darlene Himick, Leigh Ellen Walsh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An inquiry into labor conditions across key rural sectors in Africa. [PDF]

PLoS One
Nzira JE, Parlasca MC, Qaim M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Institutions and Contract Enforcement [PDF]

We provide evidence on how two important types of institutions – dismissal barriers, and bonus pay - affect contract enforcement behavior in a market with incomplete contracts and repeated interactions.
Armin Falk, David Huffman, W. Bentley MacLeod   +2 more
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Supercritical water deasphalting and desulphurization of heavy fuel oil with comprehensive molecular‐level analysis and techno‐economic analysis

The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
Supercritical water deasphalting. Abstract The removal of sulphur from heavy fuel oil (HFO) is essential to address environmental concerns and comply with the stringent regulations imposed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in 2020. Previously, the acceptable limit for sulphur was 3.5 wt.%, but it was recently changed to 0.5 wt.%.
Biswajit Saha, Sundaramurthy Vedachalam, Nathalie Baquerizo, Ajay K. Dalai, Aiping Chen, Saumitra Saxena, Bassam Dally   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The labor market of digital labor platforms in Chile: companies, state regulation and workers. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Stecher A, Morales K, Valenzuela A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart, Bayan Abubakr, Beltina Gjeloshi, Dieter Pfoser   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source