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Direct linkHampden-Thompson, Gillian – Education and Society, 2012
Labour force participation maybe particularly problematic for single-mothers. By working, mothers increase their family's financial capital and consequently make more money available for educational resources. However, employment often results in the parent having less time to interact with their child and participate in school activities. This is…
Descriptors: One Parent Family, Mothers, Academic Achievement, Employed Parents
Download full textWagner, Mary; Wagner, Marsden G. – 1974
The present report describes a system for the care of children during the day in Denmark: care in private family homes. Begun in 1966, this program organized a formal system of family day care homes initiated and supervised by the government; this is an extension of the former system of licensing privately initiated family day care homes. From the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Child Caregivers, Comparative Analysis, Day Care
Werner, Heinz – 1999
In the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Denmark, employment trends have been considerably more favorable than in Germany. A country is considered successful in an employment policy context if unemployment is falling steadily or is low and if employment is increasing steadily or the employment rate has reached a high level.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Economic Impact, Economic Progress, Employed Women
Morkeberg, Henrik – 1976
Since the 1960s the number of Danish wives going out to work has increased. In 1975, a national survey was conducted to elucidate farmers' wives' work performance in their homes and on and outside the farm. Only women under the age of 60 who were married to self-employed farmers with holdings of more than 5 hectares (1 hectare = 2.47 acres) were…
Descriptors: Child Care, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Farmers
1997
This document contains four papers from a symposium on career issues in organizations. "Learning During Downsizing: Stories from the Survivors" (Sharon J. Confessore) describes a study to demonstrate that survivors of corporate downsizings undertake learning activities and use many resources to accomplish the learning tasks.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Development, Continuing Education, Corporate Education
Weber, Kirsten – 2001
This paper discusses the impact of life history and everyday life in the context of training unskilled adults for social work in Denmark. It describes origins of these two texts used as empirical material: a discussion by a group of long-term unemployed skilled adult male workers who went through a 2-year training program to obtain permanent…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Aggression, Allied Health Occupations Education, Allied Health Personnel
