Written by two internationally renowned experts in the field, this book explores the determinants of dominant language proficiency among immigrants and other linguistic minorities and the consequences of this proficiency for the labour market. Using empirical material from a range of countries, including the USA, Canada, Australia and Bolivia, the authors develop a range of models of the determinants of dominant language proficiency and use econometric techniques to test them and estimate the magnitude of the effects. This volume is an excellent resource for researchers and a fine reader for specialists in labour economics, linguistics as well as a number of other disciplines.

The Economics of Language: International Analyses (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy)

Business & Money

Miller, Paul W.

Chiswick, Barry R.

Economics

Routledge

In an extended memoir, Dr. Martin Kawano reviews his life from the rare perspective of a Protestant inter-denominational surgeon who, while a medical student, survived the bombing of Nagasaki.  This intensely personal account casts more light on the bomb and its immediate aftermath than other existing classical works.

The Cloud and the Light: Memoirs of a Japanese Christian Surgeon from Nagasaki (The West and the Wider World Series, V. 12)

Biographies & Memoirs

Chambliss, William J.

Kawano, Martin

Community & Culture

Cross Cultural Pubns/Crossroads

<p>This book explores school leadership through a cross-cultural comparative lens, drawing on data from 16 countries located on five continents. The book gives a voice to both primary and secondary school principals, who discuss the nature of their work and explain their understanding of school leadership, strategies used to support their leadership, and how they 'do leadership' in a time of unprecedented change. The book highlights a number of important elements in school leadership:  that it is personal and internally-motivated; change oriented and entrepreneurial; dependent on the qualities and motivations of school teachers; dependent on environmental factors related to economy, geography, political stability; heavily influenced by policies within and outside the field of education; and dependent on partnerships within and outside education. The book provides an authoritative cross-cultural account of what school leaders regard as school leadership. It will be essential reading for students, researchers and policy-makers in the fields of educational leadership and management, in particular those with an interest in comparative and international research, school leadership, and education policy.</p>

The Nature of School Leadership: Global Practice Perspectives (Intercultural Studies in Education)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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