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over the past generation. Studies show quality preschools serving children from poor families lift early learning. Families … falters, growth in Latino child populations continues to climb. From 2005 to 2010, the number of Latino children under 18 …
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Childcare facilities and assistance for working parents are widely advocated on demographic, economic, political and socio‐psychological grounds – which are all scrutinised. Yet the provision in Britain, as documented in this article, remains unsystematic, uneven and ill‐adapted to the...
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Purpose – The purpose of this article is to improve understanding of the use of performance information in the public sector. Design/methodology/approach – The article is based on a comparative case study in the field of German childcare administration. Two cities have been selected based on...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore various concepts of time and temporal dimensions in the context of everyday reading experiences. Design/methodology/approach The study uses theoretical bricolage that puts existing reading research into conversation with theories of time and...
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and men with children under three are contrasted with models for women and men without children or with older children …
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political situation. Politics has attributes to people's subjective well-being through some specific domains of satisfaction …, but its effect on the level of overall happiness is insignificant. It appears that political factors have both economic …
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Purpose This paper aims to examine the effect of subjective well-being, often referred to as happiness, on the … relationship between organizational virtuousness and job performance among Japanese employees. The concept of happiness has been … growing realization of the importance of subjective well-being, or happiness, and the lack of academic research in Japan on …
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-income earners turned out to have relatively higher life satisfaction, holding everything else constant. More importantly, the study …
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Purpose This study aims to demonstrate how national culture, as measured using the Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, moderates the relationship between work–family conflict (WFC) and individual-level subjective well-being (SWB). Design/methodology/approach Using a two-level hierarchical linear...
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-tax income on child care. However, this conceals wide variation: 63 percent of such children reside in families with no child …
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