People who socialize in online communities often become alarmingly hostile, toxic, and verbally violent to one another, according to new research from Birkbeck, WU Vienna, and HEC Paris Business School.

Read more: bbk.ac.uk/news/online-co…

For caregivers and office cleaners, split-shift work is commonplace. Studies show that such a work pattern can be very stressful for the workers involved, but there are ways for alleviating these detrimental employment structures. #scilog WU Vienna 🧼

scilog.fwf.ac.at/en/magazine/af…

The 2024 Bertelsmann Transformation Index shows: Among developing and emerging countries, the number of democracies is at a 20-year low.
Gabriel Felbermayr, Prof. at WU Economics Dept. and director of WIFO: “The proportion of democracies among Austria’s trading partners is declining,”

The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive requires companies to take responsibility for the environment and human rights in their global supply chains.

WU’s Miriam Wilhelm and Charlotte Both discuss both its opportunities and risks: short.wu.ac.at/supplychainleg…

Die WU Vienna hat mich um einen Kommentar zu einer möglichen 2. Amtszeit von Donald Trump als 🇺🇸-Präsident gebeten.

Hab versucht den Text an den alten Wiener Zeitung-Stil anzulehnen. ⬇️ (👀 Marina Delcheva Walter Hämmerle).

wu.ac.at/forschung/fors…

Austria is an exemption in our special issue on large families that doesn't show an elevated poverty risk. Learn more how Austria is mitigating poverty 4 large families: doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.1… Karin Heitzmann & A. Pennersdorfer #largefam
Megan Curran ELFAC UNICEF WU Vienna

#WIFO -Ökonom und WU Vienna-Professor Harald Oberhofer Harald Oberhofer in #ORFEco über den Rückzug österreichischer Firmen aus Russland. Michael Mayrhofer Emanuel Liedl tvthek.orf.at/profile/Eco/11…

YES to binding EU material footprint reduction targets❗️

Read more in the open letter signed by Stefan Giljum & Stephan Lutter:
caneurope.org/open-letter-su…

#wcef2024 #GRO24

🏫EPCS conference took place in Vienna 🇦🇹 at the WU Vienna.

📢Stay tuned for new posts featuring in-depth insights, key takeaways, and the fascinating journey of our researchers at DemoTrans Project.

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BREAKING: 🥇🏆🍾 WU Vienna WU Economics Dept. tops Austria's universities in the subject 'Economics & Econometrics' of the new QS World University Rankings: topuniversities.com/university-sub…

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