... and promote an improved quality of life for the citizens through the utilization of technological advancements and the proper management of natural resources. Thus, the study has been carried out to recognize and rank the factors affecting the development of smart cities. Design/methodology/approach...

... issues Quality of life Social policy Employment Family life The structure of the article is as follows. In the first part, the context of the case studies is described, with an overview of the main features of the Italian welfare regime, with particular focus on work‐family policies...

... Economic crisis Austerity Reconciliation policy Gender United Kingdom Quality of life National cultures Europe Australia Work‐life balance has become increasingly prominent in public policy since the 1990s, for a number of reasons linked to women's labour market participation and ability...

... industry Relocation Quality of life Family life Women The resource industry is concerned with community stability and cohesion in its company towns and with recruiting and retaining a skilled workforce in a competitive labour market (Way, 2000 ; Halseth, 1999). However, rarely is the family...

...Maria Cristina Sousa Gomes; Maria Luís Rocha Pinto; Gabriela Gomes dos Santos Purpose With this reappraisal, the purpose of this paper is to present a reflexion on and discussion of the concept of quality of life (QL) with the intention of delimiting its meaning and application within the scope...

... to measure their perception in the workplace. This research shows how important it is to follow the use of the policy to make sure that it does not have negative impacts for those who use it. Maternity leave Paternity leave Quality of life Job satisfaction Police In the past few years...

... on the Easterlin paradox, this paper integrates national customer satisfaction and consumer confidence into a sociologic model and explicitly accounts for mediated effects. National customer satisfaction is used to model qualitative aspects of economic growth. Enhancing the quality of life is regarded as one...

...Edgar Krau The feeling of a low quality of life is not an inevitable aftermath of industrial progress, but the two phenomena may become linked in conditions of heavy competitive behaviour stemming from strong achievement orientation. Study of the relationship between quality of life and objective...