scholarly journals Evaluating the Impact of Job Training and Housing Assistance Programs on the Dynamics of Homelessness Los Angeles County of California: A Mathematical Modeling Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anuj Mubayi ◽  
Asma Azizi ◽  
Jackson Carpenter ◽  
Mohammad Alharbi ◽  
Jeniffer Sanchez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Job Training ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Housing Assistance ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
Neighborhood Influences ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Resource Limited ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact

In this research article, we developed and analyzed a mathematical model for studying the dynamics of homelessness in a resource-limited community. In the model, the homelessness is assumed to spread via social and neighborhood influences as well as due to demographic factors. The model, parameterized using data from the county of Los Angeles-California, is used to identify situations when two interventions, housing assistance, and job training programs, are most effective. There is a trade-off between the two choices interventions, which is a function of socio-demographic characteristics of the region.

Reforming Housing Assistance

2019 ◽  
Vol 686 (1) ◽  
pp. 250-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Collinson ◽  
Ingrid Gould Ellen ◽  
Jens Ludwig
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Current System ◽  
Housing Assistance ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
Limited Government ◽  
The Third ◽  
Federal Housing ◽  
The Impact

This article reviews current federal housing assistance policies and briefly summarizes research evidence about the efficacy of the different programs. We identify three key challenges that these programs face in meeting their stated objectives and suggest strategies for addressing them. The first challenge is the large variation in market conditions across the country, which makes it difficult to design assistance programs that are universally appropriate. We call for adjusting the type of assistance across markets, allowing for a greater match between subsidies and needs. The second set of challenges concerns subsidy generosity, structure, and targeting. The current system provides large subsidies to a small number of low-income households while providing nothing to most. Assuming limited government resources, we call for exploring the impact of more modest or time-limited subsidies to serve more people with more attention to targeting. The third challenge is the relatively poor location of housing in current assistance programs. We suggest strategies to help more assisted families reach high-opportunity areas.

scholarly journals Emission factor ratios, SOA mass yields, and the impact of vehicular emissions on SOA formation

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 2383-2397 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J. Ensberg ◽  
P. L. Hayes ◽  
J. L. Jimenez ◽  
J. B. Gilman ◽  
W. C. Kuster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Organic Aerosol ◽  
Vehicular Emissions ◽  
Los Angeles Basin ◽  
Relative Contribution ◽  
Chamber Studies ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Factor Ratios ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. The underprediction of ambient secondary organic aerosol (SOA) levels by current atmospheric models in urban areas is well established, yet the cause of this underprediction remains elusive. Likewise, the relative contribution of emissions from gasoline- and diesel-fueled vehicles to the formation of SOA is generally unresolved. We investigate the source of these two discrepancies using data from the 2010 CalNex experiment carried out in the Los Angeles Basin (Ryerson et al., 2013). Specifically, we use gas-phase organic mass (GPOM) and CO emission factors in conjunction with measured enhancements in oxygenated organic aerosol (OOA) relative to CO to quantify the significant lack of closure between expected and observed organic aerosol concentrations attributable to fossil-fuel emissions. Two possible conclusions emerge from the analysis to yield consistency with the ambient data: (1) vehicular emissions are not a dominant source of anthropogenic fossil SOA in the Los Angeles Basin, or (2) the ambient SOA mass yields used to determine the SOA formation potential of vehicular emissions are substantially higher than those derived from laboratory chamber studies.

scholarly journals MENGUKUR DAMPAK PELATIHAN TERHADAP IMPLEMENTASI BUDAYA KERJA PRODUKTIF DALAM RANGKA PENINGKATAN PRODUKTIVITAS MENGGUNAKAN SMARTPLS

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 675-686
Author(s):  
Yeni Nuraeni ◽  
Faizal Amir Nasution ◽  
Zusfarlian Maulana
Keyword(s):  
Job Training ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Work Productivity ◽  
Work Culture ◽  
Productivity Improvement ◽  
Productive Work ◽  
Quantitative Data Analysis ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
High Work

The competitiveness of Indonesian workers is still lagging behind several countries in the world. For this reason, the Indonesian government needs to increase labor productivity which is a component of competitiveness. One of the efforts is to organize training related to work productivity. This study aims to evaluate and analyze the impact of productivity training programs organized by the government on the implementation of productive work culture in Indonesia. This study uses quantitative data analysis in the form of path analysis using SmartPLS software. The results show that productive work culture can encourage work productivity, job training can encourage Kaizen culture, and a productive work culture directly, but job training does not directly encourage work productivity. Kaizen culture has a positive and significant relationship to work productivity indirectly, but through the 5S culture first. The productivity improvement training program and consulting guidance by the government need to pay attention to the dominant work culture applied by companies to achieve high work productivity.

Accent Policy and Accent Modification Enterprises as Potential Indicators of Intercultural Power Relations: A Call for an Updated Research Agenda

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brynne D. Ovalle ◽  
Rahul Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This article has two purposes: (a) to examine the relationship between intercultural power relations and the widespread practice of accent discrimination and (b) to underscore the ramifications of accent discrimination both for the individual and for global society as a whole. First, authors review social theory regarding language and group identity construction, and then go on to integrate more current studies linking accent bias to sociocultural variables. Authors discuss three examples of intercultural accent discrimination in order to illustrate how this link manifests itself in the broader context of international relations (i.e., how accent discrimination is generated in situations of unequal power) and, using a review of current research, assess the consequences of accent discrimination for the individual. Finally, the article highlights the impact that linguistic discrimination is having on linguistic diversity globally, partially using data from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and partially by offering a potential context for interpreting the emergence of practices that seek to reduce or modify speaker accents.

Interculturalism and the Acceptance of Minority Groups

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maykel Verkuyten ◽  
Kumar Yogeeswaran
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Social Psychological Research ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Situational Effect

Abstract. Multiculturalism has been criticized and rejected by an increasing number of politicians, and social psychological research has shown that it can lead to outgroup stereotyping, essentialist thinking, and negative attitudes. Interculturalism has been proposed as an alternative diversity ideology, but there is almost no systematic empirical evidence about the impact of interculturalism on the acceptance of migrants and minority groups. Using data from a survey experiment conducted in the Netherlands, we examined the situational effect of promoting interculturalism on acceptance. The results show that for liberals, but not for conservatives, interculturalism leads to more positive attitudes toward immigrant-origin groups and increased willingness to engage in contact, relative to multiculturalism.

International Remittances and Private Healthcare in Kerala, India

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-460
Author(s):  
Mohd Imran Khan ◽  
Valatheeswaran C.
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Variable ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Healthcare Expenditure ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Private Healthcare ◽  
International Remittances ◽  
Variable Approach ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Instrumental Variable Approach

The inflow of international remittances to Kerala has been increasing over the last three decades. It has increased the income of recipient households and enabled them to spend more on human capital investment. Using data from the Kerala Migration Survey-2010, this study analyses the impact of remittance receipts on the households’ healthcare expenditure and access to private healthcare in Kerala. This study employs an instrumental variable approach to account for the endogeneity of remittances receipts. The empirical results show that remittance income has a positive and significant impact on households’ healthcare expenditure and access to private healthcare services. After disaggregating the sample into different heterogeneous groups, this study found that remittances have a greater effect on lower-income households and Other Backward Class (OBC) households but not Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) households, which remain excluded from reaping the benefit of international migration and remittances.

The Doctor Faustus Dossier

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Daub
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Music And Literature ◽  
Twentieth Century Music ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Doctor Faustus ◽  
Public Lives ◽  
Nazi Era ◽  
The Impact

Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era. This complete edition of their correspondence provides a glimpse inside their private and public lives and culminates in the famous dispute over Mann's novel Doctor Faustus. In the thick of the controversy was Theodor Adorno, then a budding philosopher, whose contribution to the Faustus affair would make him an enemy of both families. Gathered here for the first time in English, the letters are complemented by diary entries, related articles, and other primary source materials, as well as an introduction that contextualizes the impact that these two great artists had on twentieth-century thought and culture.

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