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Equal access to childcare services is a key concern of childcare policy. This article analyses social inequalities in … neighbourhoods and investigate how different provider types contribute to such differences. To do so, we use data on all childcare … centres in the city of Vienna, Austria, on the spatial distribution of children aged under six and on three measures of …
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a panel of all day care centers for the metropolitan region of Vienna, Austria, for nearly a decade, as well as …
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Universal child care that is available, affordable and of good quality is regarded as a key instrument of a country's social and labor market policy. As full public involvement in the provision of child care is costly, licensing non-public providers can enlarges parental choice and relieve...
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and the private sector. The provision of childcare ranges from public operation to mixed markets with public and private … providers to considerably marketised systems with predominantly private providers. One of the countries with a mixed childcare … system is Germany where most of the childcare centres are operated by local authorities and non-profit organisations. Using …
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This paper examines the impact of the spatial accessibility of public human services agencies on the likelihood of receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location of virtually every human services agency in the U.S....
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This study proposes new family-centered measures of access to early care and education (ECE) services with respect to quantity, cost, and quality and uses them to assess disparities in access across locations and socio-demographic groups in Minnesota. These measures are distance-based and use...
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This paper examines the impact of the spatial accessibility of public human services agencies on the likelihood of receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location of virtually every human services agency in the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119294
This study proposes new family-centered measures of access to early care and education (ECE) services with respect to quantity, cost, and quality and uses them to assess disparities in access across locations and socio-demographic groups in Minnesota. These measures are distance-based and use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923233
a panel of all day care centers for the metropolitan region of Vienna, Austria, for nearly a decade, as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140919
This chapter analyzes the link between the digital divide, infrastructure regulation, and disaster planning and relief through a case study of the flood in San Jose, California triggered by the Anderson dam’s overtopping in February 2017 and examination of communications failures during the...
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