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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"international mobility"”.
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International mobility in a multinational corporation.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1969. M.S.
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Economic progress and international mobility of human resources: Chinese immigrants in the United States labor market
The results indicate great differences among Chinese immigrants from the three areas in age, wage rates, years of schooling and industrial and occupational distributions. Immigrants from China tend to be older and less educated (less skilled) than immigrants from Hong Kong and Taiwan. In addition, …
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Influences of Cultural Capital and Internationalization on Global Competence: Evidence from China’s Higher Vocational Education
… the umbrella of cultural capital theory and internationalization framework, a systematic literature review analyzed and synthesized 26 empirical studies pertaining to global competence education in postsecondary education from 2013 to 2022. The review revealed a research gap highlighting the …
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9-12 KLASIŲ MOKSLEIVIŲ RENGIMAS KARJERAI MULTIKULTŪRINĖJE APLINKOJE /
… environment has an impact on expanding the international mobility of young people choosing a university. Aim of the study. Clarify the students' preparation for career opportunities in multicultural environment. Objectives of the study: 1. Clarify the influence of personality in the choice …
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A Long Journey of Going Gender: Women’s Self-initiated Expatriate Experiences and Career Decision Making
… life experiences and the multifaceted nature of international career and life trajectories. Employing a narrative inquiry and life story approach, this study gathered and analysed the lived experiences of 15 SIE women through semi-structured interviews. A multi-layered thematic analysis of these …
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Engaging emigrants: a study of the Australian diaspora in the United States of America.
… A contemporary global situation that fuels international mobility, particularly of individuals with highly-skilled characteristics, and technological advancements that allow transnational connections to be maintained across distance, contribute to this interest. A dearth of information about …
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An exploration into the environmental identities and sense of place of internationally mobile adolescents
This study considers how international relocations impact the environmental identities of mobile adolescents, popularly known as "Third Culture Kids", focusing on those residing in Hong Kong. In a mixed methods approach, the Nisbet, Zelenski, and Murphy (2008) Nature Relatedness Scale and aspects …
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Inequality, Migrations, and Black Swans: The Case of Italy
… analysis on how inequality, internal and international mobility, and exogenous shocks interact with each other. With a focus on Italy, I provide an important contribution to existing literature on migration and inequality, through a comparative analysis at the subnational level. This …
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BUILDING A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE AT HOME: A STUDY OF THE ACQUISITION OF A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE BY STUDENTS OF GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING
Universities around the United States use international mobility, such as recruitment of international students and faculty and study abroad of domestic students, as methods of achieving internationalization goals. However, only 15.5% of U.S. students have a study abroad opportunity during their …
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The Engineering Council’s influence on Building Services Engineering education and qualifications: towards an internationalist education and training model
… of academic courses, and this facilitates international mobility. Since it is widely accepted that buildings account for as much as 50% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, it could be said that there is a worldwide sustainability agenda with respect to buildings. The common factor across …
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When East Meets West: Understanding Travel Experience in Transnational Space
… an unprecedented compression of time and space. International travel, as one major force of contemporary mobility, not only generates large-scale human movements across national boundaries, but also facilitates the construction of dynamic and meaningful experiences. Taking international tourism …
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International Degree and Post-Diploma Mobility in Information Science
… iConference to observe degree and post-diploma mobility in Information science. Half of all who were analyzed are Americans, who mostly never left their continent. On the other hand, researchers from Asia and Europe, the other half, show a high rate of mobility towards North America. These …
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Porous Empire: Foreign Visitors And The Post-Stalin Soviet State
… The gap between Soviet concessions to the era of international mobility and Soviet attitudes to the outside world shaped the peculiar nature of globalization in its Soviet context: even as the Soviet opening up to the world promoted Westernization and undermined some of the ideological foundations …
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The impact of the brain drain of professional nurses on nursing education and nursing practice in Kwazulu-Natal Province
… has increased over the past 15 years, and the international mobility of health professionals has become an important issue. Statistics show that more than 23 400 health workers from South Africa currently practice in Australia, Canada, the United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom and other …
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Sojourner consumer behaviour : the influence of nostalgia, ethnocentrism, cosmopolitanism and place attachment
… numbers of consumers are becoming involved in an internationally mobile lifestyle. During this transitional event, these international consumers become temporary residents in a foreign host country. Transient consumers are formally known as sojourners. Despite the recognition that sojourners’ …
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‘Are they ready to fly?’ Flying faculty preparedness and professional learning: an exploratory study of transnational education staff perspectives
The international mobility of higher education institutions and courses is increasing exponentially. In 2016–17, there were 707,915 students on UK degrees outside the UK with 1.6 times more students now on UK degree programmes offshore than there are international students based at universities in …
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Building or stumbling, blocks anyhow: a comparative approach of regional labour mobility frameworks towards global solutions
While concessions to labour mobility at the international level seem off the agenda, with the General Agreements on Trades in Services essentially tabled, the past decades have produced a proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs), some of which are facilitating labour mobility specifically. …
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Social Determinants of International Students’ Mobility: Enhancing the Capabilities of PhD Students from Turkey
Student mobility is part of the increasing internationalisation of higher education in the 21stcentury, being used by many as a stepping-stone for a career away from the country of birth. Despite acknowledgement of its contribution to human development and to a country’s economic development, this …
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THE VALUE OF GLOBAL LEARNING FOR NORTHERN AND INDIGENOUS STUDENTS
I arrived in Canada as an international student from Norway in 2001, seeking to learn more about my Canadian ancestry and history. The most profound lessons about Canada were gifted through my experiences being welcomed into northern and Indigenous communities while working with the joint Master of …
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Fragile civility: an evangelical American school meets Korean educational sojourners in neoliberal time
… migration, especially the integration of international students into U.S. schools. It examines the conflicts that emerged when a noncompetitive evangelical Midwestern Christian high school, predominantly white lower-middle class, enrolled escalating numbers of Early Study Abroad (ESA) …