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Assessing Photovoltaic Recycling Capacities and Policy Gaps in the European Union

open access: yesAdvanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
This study maps photovoltaic recycling capacity in the EU and key global regions, highlighting gaps between growing waste volumes and available infrastructure. It combines survey insights and policy analysis to identify recycling bottlenecks and offers recommendations to boost circularity in the solar sector.
Nieves Espinosa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing Geriatric Hospice Care in China: An Interpretation and Critical Analysis of the New National Standard WS/T 844–2024

open access: yesAGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
The Setting Standards for Elderly Hospice Care Wards are crucial for meeting urgent elderly patient needs, enhancing hospice care quality, and advancing China's humanized elderly health system. This Standard specifies the configuration requirements for geriatric hospice care wards in terms of ward configuration, staffing models, age‐appropriate ...
Yinan Wu   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Employment Services as a Public Service

2007
AbstractThis chapter provides a historical and comparative examination of employment services in the light of their ‘public service’ nature and vocation as developed through the 20th century. It also provides a reasoned taxonomy of the various activities and functions performed by public employment services in Europe, and in particular of job ...
Catherine Jacqueson   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Activation in Public Employment Services in Europe

2023
Abstract Since the dawn of the New Public Management and labor market activation paradigms, public employment services (PES) have been in a state of perpetual reform. This chapter not only identifies key modernization trends in three pioneering PES in Europe, including Denmark, Germany, and the United Kingdom, but also critically ...
Weishaupt, J. Timo   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Employer orientation in the German public employment service

Critical Social Policy, 2015
Through the introduction of welfare states and social policy, owners of labour power acquired alternatives to the permanent sale of their labour. Entitlements to social security created the conditions for a strategic temporary withholding of labour. Based on qualitative data, this article presents empirical evidence of trends towards recommodification ...
Sowa, Frank   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Employment insecurity in the public services

2000
Job security, until recently, has been seen as a defining characteristic of traditional public sector employment, and the ‘risk-averse’, time-serving bureaucrat is a common, negative stereotype of the public sector worker. As the restructuring of the public sector has gathered pace over the last twenty years, however, the security of employees has come
Edmund Heery   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Employment service: Public or private?

Public Choice, 1996
This paper deals with the relative performance of private and public employment services. For this purpose, two behavioral models are developed which take into account that private and and public employment agents not only pursue different aims but also face different restrictions, in particular since a public employment agency lacks the right to ...
Peter Zweifel, Christoph Zaborowski
openaire   +1 more source

The Politics of Investment and Employability in the Public Employment Service

2017
This chapter introduces the historical and legal development of public employment service and its institutions in Switzerland, most importantly the Regional Employment Offices (REO), the official institution in charge of job seekers. In this context, it discusses labour market measures (LMM), which are the main instrument of the REO’s activation policy
Mi-Cha Flubacher   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Stepping Stones to Permanent Employment in the Public Service

LABOUR, 2004
Abstract.  Labour force transitions are investigated using a longitudinal database covering staff movements in the Queensland public service. The database covers those who have entered the public service through traditional recruitment methods as well as those who have entered through temporary and casual appointments.
Tunny, G., Mangan, J. E.
openaire   +4 more sources

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