Purpose The underrepresentation of women in engineering has important consequences for meeting the need a larger, talented scientific and technological labor force. Increasing proportion faculty will help increase persistence probabilities undergraduate graduate students engineering, as well contribute to range diversity ideas toward innovations solutions greatest challenges. This study aims ex...

Abstract Recent studies show that temporary workers postpone family formation transitions, but it remains unclear whether this effect is due to the lower income or stronger perceptions of job insecurity go with a contract. To address question, we link data from large-scale survey among Dutch employees longitudinal population register on marriage and first births. Logistic regression models esti...

To cope with fast changing customer requirements, industrial demands and to meet stringent specifications of customers Cellular Manufacturing Systems has become an effective tool in hands of manufacturers. Most of the published literature on cell formation earlier considers only the data available in the route sheets and ignored subproblems associated with cell formation. There is a need to dev...

This article examines alternative approaches to encourage family formation among fragile families, including higher cash benefits, more liberal acceptance of welfare applications, more effective child support enforcement, and efforts to increase education and employment of low-income parents. We examine these approaches by refining and expanding previous work on a generalized logit model of the...