Product Description: Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to this rule. This book explores the complex relationship between gender and high-skill migration, with a special focus on the impact of the current economic crisis on highly skilled women-migrants in Europe...read more

Product Description: An important study of the relationship between technology, skills, and economic inequality that answers some of the most pressing economic questions of our time Today’s great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere—in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor’s office—but not in our paychecks...read more

Product Description: Despite the fact that many countries target highly skilled migrants for recruitment in the global labour market, few of those migrants are able to take full advantage of their educational and professional qualifications in their new homes...read more

Product Description: Skills are frequently in the news and in the public eye in every country. Stories highlight concerns about education and literacy standards, grades, learning by rote, and university students being unprepared for work, as well as debates surrounding internships and apprenticeships, and social exclusion through skills policy...read more

Product Description: Für Wissensgesellschaften, die vom Aufbau und der Verwertung kulturellen Kapitals abhängen, kann die Arbeitsmarktintegration von hochqualifizierten Migrant(inn)en eine Chance sein. Der vorliegende Band befasst sich mit verschiedenen Migrantengruppen, die ihre akademischen Bildungstitel in die Arbeitsmärkte von Deutschland, Kanada, Türkei und Großbritannien einbringen...read more

Product Description: The perfect guide for anyone interested in stargazing for the first time, Exploring the Starry Sky features large, colorful, user-friendly star maps and includes simple directions for finding all of the major stars and constellations visible from the northern hemisphere...read more

Product Description: Taxes on the highly skilled are an important cost factor for companies competing internationally for talent. This book provides an international comparison of the effective level of taxes and social security charges imposed on highly qualified employees...read more

Discusses the education and training for as well as opportunities in fields including carpentry, construction, automotive trades, plumbing, and metalwork (view table of contents)

Product Description: This widely used text is designed for use in third year composition courses. "Composicion" is intended to develop students' abilities in the kinds of writing they are asked to do as Spanish majors and minors. This text helps students understand the roles of the sender and the receiver of the message in the writing process, and also focuses on developing the necessary tools and resources for being a good writer...read more