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Labor Market Status and Transitions during the Pre-Retirement Years: Learning from International Differences [PDF]

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Many western industrialized countries face strong budgetary pressures due to the aging of the baby boom generations and the general trends toward earlier ages of retirement.
Arie Kapteyn   +3 more
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Laborers or Criminals? The Impact of Crimmigration on Labor Standards Enforcement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
[Excerpt] As we examine the criminalization of immigration, commonly referred to as “crimmigration” (Stumpf, 2006), it is essential to consider its impact on other areas of law and policy that involve immigrants but are not traditionally thought of as ...
Griffith, Kati L
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Employment protection and labor productivity

open access: yesJournal of Public Economics, 2018
Abstract Current theoretical predictions of how employment protection affects firm productivity are ambiguous. In this paper, I study the effect of employment protection rules on labor productivity using Swedish register data. A reform of employment protection rules in 2001 enabled small firms with fewer than eleven employees to exempt two workers ...
openaire   +1 more source

Interfacially Coupled and Synergistic Effect of Ag/Co3O4‐C Nanocomposites for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction (ORR) and Evolution (OER) Reaction

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Ag/Co3O4–C nanocomposites display well‐resolved lattice fringes and synergistic Ag/Co3O4 heterointerfaces that enhance charge transfer and active‐site exposure. The structural design enables superior bifunctional ORR/OER performance in alkaline media by promoting efficient adsorption and turnover of oxygen intermediates within an optimized ...
Adnan Qaseem   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evolution of Prime Editing: Enhancing Efficiency and Expanding Capacity

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Most rare diseases are caused by genetic mutations. Prime editing (PE) has emerged as a versatile tool capable of inducing diverse mutations without generating DNA double‐strand breaks. Despite its significant clinical potential, PE faces limitations in terms of efficiency and scalability.
Jihyeon Yu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Is Claiming For Fixed-Term Contracts? [PDF]

open access: yes
The present study aims to contribute to the debate concerning the effects on economic performance and the structure of the labor market of regulations that combine high Employment Protection Legislations (EPL) with consent for the use of fixed-term ...
Dany Jaimovich, Carmen Pages-Serra
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Atomic Defects in Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for Sustainable Energy Storage and the Intelligent Trends in Data Analytics

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the atomic defects in TMDs for their applications in sustainable energy storage devices, along with the latest progress in ML methodologies for high‐throughput TEM data analysis, offering insights on how ML‐empowered microscopy facilitates bridging structure–property correlation and inspires knowledge for precise ...
Zheng Luo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Are Nominal Wages Downwardly Rigid, but Less So in Japan? An Explanation Based on Behavioral Economics and Labor Market/Macroeconomic Differences [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper, we survey the theoretical and empirical literature to investigate why nominal wages can be downwardly rigid. Looking back from the 19th century until recently, we first examine the existence and extent of downward nominal wage rigidity ...
Isamu Yamamoto, Sachiko Kuroda
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The Facts About Human Trafficking for Forced Labor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Defines human trafficking, details the various forms of forced labor, and explains the United States’ efforts to limit it worldwide, with special reference to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 and 2003. This law provides tools for the
United States Department of State
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