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Gleason, Kristen D.; Dube, Matthew; Martin, Jennifer; Bernier, Elizabeth; Gipson, Jessica – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2023
Stable housing is an important determinant of health equity (Swope & Hernández, 2019). Yet, there are few studies exploring housing insecurity in rural areas. In the current study, we examined the similarities and differences in housing insecure experiences across four rural areas in the state of Maine. We used a qualitative case study…
Descriptors: Housing, Rural Areas, Health, Case Studies
British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2019
Wages below the living wage are poverty wages for many households. For decades, teachers have been clear about the damaging impact poverty has on childhood development in particular, as well as on individuals and communities as a whole. Teachers experience first-hand the impact that poverty has on children, how it leaves children more vulnerable…
Descriptors: Unions, Living Standards, Wages, Poverty
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Kaka, Kaka; Rizk, Nadya; Miller, Judith – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2022
Gross National Happiness (GNH) is a central policy, symbolic of Bhutan, which gave rise to Educating for GNH (EGNH). In Bhutan, the school Performance Management System is the sole instrument used by the Ministry of Education to evaluate the performance of schools. To test the utility of the Performance Management System in fulfilling the intended…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, Living Standards, Quality of Life
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Forray, R. Katalin – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2021
According to our initial assumption, there would be two characteristic strategies for Romani catching up. One strategy is to lift the Romanies out of poverty and bring their living conditions closer to the average living conditions of the majority society. According to the other strategy, Romanies create a national minority in the majority…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Civil Rights, Poverty, Living Standards
Guido Schwerdt; Simon Wiederhold; T. Scott Murray – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2020
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to replicate the IALS-based analysis by Coulombe, Tremblay and Marchand (2004) as well as Coulombe and Tremblay (2006) based on more recent and more comprehensive data on the literacy skills of the adult population. Results from panel estimations over the period 1970-2010…
Descriptors: Adults, Adult Literacy, Economic Development, Correlation
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Karim, Paria; Ebrahimi, Mohammad; Abdul-Rahaman, Nurudeen – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2019
The study aims to examine the relationship between art education and government policy towards sustainable urban development in Tehran. The mixed approach of quantitative and qualitative was adopted as the study design. Stratified sampling technique coupled with simple random sampling was used to sample 300 respondent for this study. Students, as…
Descriptors: Correlation, Art Education, Public Policy, Government Role
Lewis, Christine; Ollivaud, Patrice – OECD Publishing, 2020
Swiss society is ageing. At the same time, life expectancy is increasing. With most workers retiring around age 65, time in retirement is growing and the ratio of retirees to employees is set to soar. These developments bring a range of opportunities but will likely weigh on growth in GDP per capita and increase public spending. They may also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aging (Individuals), Population Trends, Public Policy
European Training Foundation, 2020
All countries in the EU Neighbourhood and Central Asia have been hit by the COVID-19 outbreak to a greater or lesser extent, with overall lower infection numbers compared to some of the EU Member States, although issues of under-reporting may impact on the reliability of data. All countries, apart from Belarus and Turkmenistan, made similar…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Economic Factors, Public Policy
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Cheng, Li; Tan, Mei; Liu, Zhengkui – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2015
China has been undergoing great social change due to its new focus on urbanization and globalization. Such change has had a tremendous adverse impact on the living conditions of millions of young children, simultaneously generating new interest in children's creativity development. The intersection of these two issues has important implications…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Social Change, History
National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 2015
Britain faces a wages crisis, underpinned by low productivity. For the last seven years, people's wages have risen more slowly than the prices in the shops. People also often become "stuck" in low pay and cannot advance their careers. This paper argues for a new National Advancement Service, providing people in low paid work a Career…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Income Groups, Promotion (Occupational), Living Standards
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Menna, Agostino – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
This study begins to develop a way to measure the returns and benefits of education using a standard of living and quality of life approach. It sought identification of school priorities among senior level managers at postsecondary institutions in Ontario, Canada, and found that these administrators prioritized standard of living over quality of…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Living Standards, Quality of Life, Foreign Countries
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Heinrich, Carolyn J. – Future of Children, 2014
Since modern welfare reform began in the 1980s, we have seen low-income parents leave the welfare rolls and join the workforce in large numbers. At the same time, the Earned Income Tax Credit has offered a monetary incentive for low-income parents to work. Thus, unlike some of the other two-generation mechanisms discussed in this issue of…
Descriptors: Well Being, Employed Parents, Child Welfare, Parent Child Relationship
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Haveman, Robert; Heinrich, Carolyn; Smeeding, Timothy – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012
In this paper, the authors first discuss the Neumark and Troske piece, and then compare the U.S. context to that in Europe and Korea, as described by the Caspar, Hartwig, and Moench and the Cho and Shin contributions. Although they are in basic agreement with Neumark and Troske on the extent and depth of the current employment situation, they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Labor Market, Employment
Longman, Phillip; Mundy, Liza; Black, Rachel; Bornfreund, Laura; Byrum, Greta; Cramer, Reid; Gangadharan, Seeta Peña; Guernsey, Lisa; Lieberman, Abbie; Lynn, Barry; McCarthy, Mary Alice – New America, 2015
Most of the social and economic policies in the U.S. do not explicitly address or take into account the growing importance of families as sources of human capital and determinants of individual success. Even the small subsets of programs that we conventionally frame as part of "family policy" are often based on long-defunct assumptions…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Social Indicators, Public Policy, Family Programs
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Barabasch, Antje; Petrick, Stefanie – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2012
In its attempt to become a member of the European Union (EU), Turkey is challenged to upgrade its workforce to keep up with economic developments and improve the living conditions in the country. Multiple policy players on global, European and transnational levels are assisting in reforming Turkey's vocational education and training (VET) sector.…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Labor Force Development
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