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Weight of a link in a shortest path tree and the Dedekind Eta function

RANDOM STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS, Issue 3 2010
Piet Van Mieghem
Abstract The weight of a randomly chosen link in the shortest path tree on the complete graph with exponential i.i.d. link weights is studied. The corresponding exact probability generating function and the asymptotic law are derived. As a remarkable coincidence, this asymptotic law is precisely the same as the distribution of the cost of one "job" in the random assignment problem. We also show that the asymptotic (scaled) maximum interattachment time to that shortest path tree, which is a uniform recursive tree, equals the square of the Dedekind Eta function, a central function in modular forms, elliptic functions, and the theory of partitions. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2010 [source]

Single Mothers' Employment Dynamics and Adolescent Well-Being

CHILD DEVELOPMENT, Issue 1 2005
Ariel Kalil
The links between single mothers' employment patterns and change over time in the well-being of the mothers' adolescent children were investigated using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Adolescents were ages 14 to 16 at baseline, and they and their mothers were followed for 2 years. Relative to being continuously employed in a good job, findings suggest that adolescents whose mothers lose a job without regaining employment show declines in mastery and self-esteem, those whose mothers are continuously employed in a bad job show an increased likelihood of grade repetition, and those whose mothers are either persistently unemployed or lose more than one job show an increased likelihood of school dropout. These effects are not explained by concomitant changes in family income. [source]

Change in Work-Family Conflict Among Employed Parents Between 1977 and 1997

JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY, Issue 1 2009
Kei M. Nomaguchi
Using data from two national surveys (N = 2,050), this paper examines what accounts for the increase in the sense of work-family conflict among employed parents between 1977 and 1997. Decomposition analysis indicates that the increases in women's labor force participation, college education, time pressure in completing one's job, and the decline in free time were related to the increase. Fathers in dual-earner marriages experienced a particular increase in work-family conflict. With the same amount of time spent with children, parents felt greater work-family conflict in 1997 than in 1977. Although masked by the overall increase, some trends, such as the increases in intrinsic job rewards, time with children, and egalitarian gender attitudes, contributed to a decline in work-family conflict. [source]

Personal Goal Facilitation through Work: Implications for Employee Satisfaction and Well-Being

APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 2 2006
Laura ter Doest
Que le travail facilite la réalisation des objectifs personnels dépend de la perception de l'impact du travail sur l'atteinte de ces objectifs personnels. En accord avec la littérature sur l'autorégulation et le modèle cybernétique du stress organisationnel proposé par Edwards (1992), la facilitation de l'accès à ses objectifs personnels par le travail fut supposée en relation positive avec les attitudes relatives à l'emploi et le bien-être de l'employé. En outre, on a prédit un rapport plus étroit entre la facilitation de l'accès à ses objectifs personnels par le travail et les performances du salarié quand les buts personnels étaient fortement valorisés. Ces hypothèses ont été mises à l'épreuve à travers un questionnaire rempli par 1036 employés du secteur de la santé. D'après l'analyse de régression, la facilitation de l'accès à ses objectifs personnels par le travail expliquait une part importante de la variance du bien-être et des attitudes relatives à l'emploi, même après avoir contrôlé les caractéristiques des postes en référence au modèle de Karasek concernant les relations agents stressants,tension au travail (1979; Karasek & Theorell, 1990). L'importance des objectifs n'avait qu'une influence des plus limitées. On en conclut que la facilitation de l'accès à ses objectifs personnels par le travail offre une voie prometteuse pour explorer les attitudes liées à l'emploi et le bien-être, en complément des modèles plus traditionnels des caractéristiques de l'emploi. Personal goal facilitation through work refers to perceptions of the extent to which one's job facilitates the attainment of one's personal goals. In line with the self-regulation literature and Edwards' (1992) cybernetic model of organisational stress, personal goal facilitation through work was predicted to show positive associations with job attitudes and employee well-being. Moreover, stronger relationships between personal goal facilitation through work and employee outcomes were predicted for highly valued personal goals. These predictions were investigated in a questionnaire study of 1,036 health care employees. In regression analyses, personal goal facilitation through work accounted for substantial variance in job attitudes and well-being, even after controlling for job characteristics from Karasek's (1979; Karasek & Theorell, 1990) model of occupational stressor,strain relations. There was only very limited evidence of moderating effects of goal importance. It is concluded that personal goal facilitation through work offers a promising source of insight into job attitudes and well-being, complementing more traditional job characteristics models. [source]