In the current business-to-business (B2B) landscape, servicizing products—a leasing model that often includes remanufacturing—rather than selling them, marks a shift toward a new model of consumption that focuses on sustainability. ...
Economics & Business
Dec 19, 2023
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The economic fallout of COVID-19 left people around the world facing a significant threat to their livelihood. As governments scrambled to mitigate the pandemic's impact on their populations, many decided to use direct payments ...
Economics & Business
Dec 19, 2023
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Technological change is currently driving fundamental changes to the world of work—with significant consequences for social inequality. Against this backdrop, the interdisciplinary research project "Digitalization, Automation ...
Economics & Business
Dec 18, 2023
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I recently found myself among a group of alarmed scientists, writing a fervent plea to the European Commission to be more ambitious when it comes to corporate greenhouse gas reporting requirements. Our open letter calling ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2023
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Women from elite backgrounds are much less likely than men to end up in the most economically rewarding jobs, but they are no less likely to hold prestigious jobs that are respected in society.
Social Sciences
Dec 14, 2023
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From the nutritional traffic light system displayed on a box of cereal, to the efficiency ratings we look at when buying a house, ratings and labels help us work out how to spend money responsibly. A new scheme from the UK's ...
Economics & Business
Dec 10, 2023
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Upon their arrival in a foreign country, immigrants tend to be healthier than natives, but their advantage erodes with time, despite improvements in earnings and socio-economic status. A new study published in the European ...
Social Sciences
Dec 6, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have compiled information to help political decision-makers better understand the individual options for a new EU-wide regulation of breeding technologies. The aim is to ensure the ...
Biotechnology
Dec 5, 2023
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Better alignment with the market is one of the goals pursued by the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in recent decades. One of the measures used to achieve this was to decouple direct payments from production. Agricultural ...
Economics & Business
Dec 4, 2023
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Mothers who took parental leave part-time or for shorter periods were more likely to engage in income-generating activities or pursue education. A new study uncovers surprising patterns in parental leave usage among newly ...
Social Sciences
Dec 1, 2023
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