This study deals with the issue of non-formal education in the Czech Republic. In this regard, it focuses on the participation of adults in non-formal education in and outside of a workplace and on the conditioning factors of their participation. For this purpose, the study uses a quantitative research strategy through which the data for the representative sample of adults were collected (N = 1...

(1) Background: The equality of life chances in Germany is often assessed along the lines a west/east and urban/rural differentiation which latter usually perform worse. One currently popular proposal for addressing these inequalities to strengthen cultural arts education. question arises what extent regional characteristics genuinely influence participation opportunities individual resources s...

OBJECTIVES Although there are numerous studies on the role of social connections in early working life, research that examines how social connectedness matters in the later stages of a career is scarce. The present study analyzes to what extent social connectedness affects the timing of the transition from work to retirement. METHODS We draw on data from the German Socioeconomic Panel Study (...

OBJECTIVES There is renewed attention on national standardization of formal driver education (DE) instruction and momentum toward realigning DE with its original goal of producing safer teen drivers. However, teen DE participation rates and how they differ among sociodemographic groups and in states with and without DE requirements remain largely unknown. Thus, our objective was to estimate nat...

The spatial inequality of the environment arises as a planning problem when the spatial structure of the different districts of a city is distinctly different; Differences that require different programming solutions for different regions and meeting the objective of creating spatial equality in a city. Nobahar and Vaki-Agha are two districts with unequal urban space located in north and south ...

The Helios voting scheme is well studied including formal proofs for verifiability and ballot privacy, but it does not provide participation privacy (i.e. it reveals who participated in the election). Kulyk, Teague and Volkamer proposed an extension to Helios that is claimed to provide ballot privacy as well as participation privacy while providing verifiability against a malicious bulletin boa...

Based on data from 1,357 Canadian private sector workplaces, this study found no support for the argument that formal employee participation is a universal “best practice.” However, it found considerable support for the contingency and configurational perspectives, as there were significant interactions between employee participation and business strategy, and between employee participation and...