scholarly journals Highly Skilled Migrant and Non-Migrant Women and Men: How Do Differences in Quality of Employment Arise?

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Yvonne Riaño
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Life Course Analysis ◽  
Skilled Migrant

Research shows that highly skilled migrant women often have poor quality jobs or no employment. This paper addresses two research gaps. First, it provides a comparative perspective that examines differences and commonalities in the quality of employment of four highly skilled groups: migrant- and non-migrant women and men. Four statistical indicators are examined to grasp these differences: employment rates, income, adequacy of paid work, and employment status. The results highlight the role of gender and country of birth: Swiss-born men experience the best employment quality, and foreign-born women the worst. Second, it offers a family perspective to study how the employment trajectories of skilled migrant women develop in time and place in relation to their partners’. The qualitative life-course analysis indicates that skill advancement is more favourable for migrant and non-migrant men than for migrant and non-migrant women. However, skill advancement for migrant women depends greatly on the strategies enacted by domestic partners about how to divide paid employment and family work, and where to live. The statistical study draws on recent data from Swiss labour market surveys. The life-course analysis focuses on 77 biographical interviews with tertiary-educated individuals. Participatory Minga workshops are used to validate the study results.

scholarly journals Kontribusi Muhasabah dalam Mengembangkan Resiliensi Pada Orang Tua Anak Berkebutuhan Khusus

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-262
Author(s):  
Fatma Laili Khoirun Nida
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Children With Special Needs ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Resilience Factors ◽  
Depth Interviews

The phenomenon of the poor quality of parental care for children with disabilities makes resilience one of the psychological capital that contributes to improving the quality of care. This study describes how through a muhasabah intervention in Blimbingrejo Village, Nalumsari District, Jepara Regency. The purpose of this study was to provide information for parents of children with special needs about muhasabah interventions in developing the resilience abilities of parents when carrying out their care. The urgency of this research is to reduce parenting stress experienced by parents because of the developmental barriers of their children. This research is qualitative with a case study approach through in-depth interviews and observation techniques. The study results explain that the condition of children with special needs is often a stressor for their parents. However, parents can live with complete steadfastness as a form of their resilience. The pattern of resilience formed is supported mainly by thinking about what they are trying to do. There are indications of the meaning of resilience factors in the practice of muhasabah in the form of the ability to regulate emotions, develop optimism and empathy, control impulses and causal analysis, good self-efficacy and take wisdom as an indication of aspects of the reaching out process. The results of this study are helpful information in developing the concept and practice of caring for children with special needs.

scholarly journals Stripping Them of Legal Status: The Making and Unmaking of the Exotic Dancer Visa Program

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alise Rimniceanu
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Undocumented Workers ◽  
Exotic Dancers ◽  
Exotic Dancer

This paper explores the factors which influenced the making and unmaking of this controversial and internationally unique temporary visa program. Through a review of literature, public documents, and media records I deconstruct this policy; analyze its rationalities, assumptions and mechanisms; and conclude with a discussion on the implications for foreign-born exotic dancers whose lives are marked by Canadian politics turmoil. I argue that the government's decision to discontinue the program has negatively impacted the human rights and quality of life of foreign-born exotic dancers who, quite possibly, made the dangerous transition to the existing group of undocumented workers in Canada. While the Exotic Dancer Visa Program was problematic in many ways these migrant women were protected by legal status, thus decreasing, but not eliminating, their vulnerability as women, as immigrants, and as workers.

Public-Sector Project Abandonment Decision

2017 ◽  
pp. 188-215
Author(s):  
Kehinde Adekunle Adetiloye ◽  
Patrick Omoruyi Eke ◽  
Joseph Niyan Taiwo
Keyword(s):  
Poor Quality ◽  
Ricardian Equivalence ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Corruption Index ◽  
Deficit Financing ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Railway System

This chapter examines the implications of projects abandonment with test of the Ricardian Equivalence on the failed Lagos metro line project in Nigeria as case study. The main variables used are Rail and Pipeline Output, Budget Deficit, Interest Rate, Corruption Index, Savings and some others. The study results on the Ricardian Equivalence hypothesis on deficit financing of projects using Vector auto-regression model from 1980-2012 indicate that no causal influence holds in Nigeria. Results show that poor planning, corruption, political factors, poor support infrastructures, poor quality of local resources, etc. were attributable. The results of the Impulse Response tests reveal that Rail and Pipeline output and a few others responded positively to shocks in the short run (years 1-2), and negatively to others. The result affirms that Government should privatize the railway system, legislate against project abandonment and ensure that projects are adequately planned, funded, insured and insulated against corruption.

scholarly journals Highly Skilled Migrant Women: Achievements and Contributions in Knowledge-Based Economies

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Rosa Grimaldi ◽  
Francesca Crivellaro ◽  
Daniela Bolzani
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Women ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Industrialised Countries ◽  
Skilled Migrant

Competition among developed industrialised countries for highly skilled migrants has increased in recent decades with the onset of the knowledge-based economy and society (Triandafyllidou and Isaakyan 2014) [...]

Barriers and Resources for Highly-Skilled Migrant Women with a STEM Background in Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 17951
Author(s):  
Daniela Bolzani ◽  
Rosa Grimaldi ◽  
Francesca Crivellaro
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Women ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Skilled Migrant

scholarly journals Perceived Employability of Highly Skilled Migrant Women in STEM: Insights from Labor Market Intermediaries’ Professionals

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Aurora Ricci ◽  
Francesca Crivellaro ◽  
Daniela Bolzani
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Target Group ◽  
Women In Stem ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Labor Market Intermediaries ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Skilled Migrant ◽  
Market Intermediaries

While global economies are in a tremendous need for talented workers that could fill vacancies in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields, available evidence shows that highly skilled migrants with a background in these fields are not protected from brain waste and deskilling. In this paper, we add to the previous literature on the employability of highly skilled migrant women from the specific—and under-investigated—perspective of labor market intermediaries. We specifically investigate what the barriers and resources are for employability of highly skilled migrant women in STEM, as perceived by labor market intermediaries’ professionals; and what the training needs are that labor market intermediaries’ professionals perceive to effectively work with this target group. We use unique explorative survey data collected in 2018 in five countries (Greece, Hungary, Italy, Sweden, United Kingdom) from professionals working in diverse labor market intermediary organizations. We find that these professionals perceive the employability of migrant women in STEM as rather low, and strongly determined by migrant women’s psychological capital. Professionals in Southern Europe perceive structural barriers as more important than those in other countries. Professionals display training needs related to ad-hoc mentoring and networking competences for this specific target group. We discuss theoretical and practical implications.

scholarly journals Teacher Training Systems in Three Countries (Finland, France and Morocco): Comparative Study of Professionalization Models and Their Challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-29
Author(s):  
Moncef Barzane ◽  
Soukaina Essalih ◽  
Mustapha Ourahay ◽  
Salaheddine Khzami
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Training Systems ◽  
Study Results

Teacher training is still a problematic subject in projects to reform education systems. Through the quest for quality education, it has experienced major changes in different contexts in connection with the process of "professionalization". The different mechanisms of this training must allow teachers to acquire disciplinary knowledge and develop skills in order to be able to build quality teaching and learning. In addition, there seems to be a relationship between the effectiveness of the teacher and the level of quality of his training. Study results have revealed particularly poor performance levels among students whose teachers are characterized by “poor quality education and uncontrolled knowledge in the subjects they teach” (Bidjang, S. G. 2005). In other words: the effectiveness of teaching depends at least to a significant extent on what "the teachers bring". Morocco in the last reform took up professionalization and universitarization as new approaches to teacher training. However, despite the progress recorded in terms of educational training provision, the reform has not been accompanied through strategic measures. Training in Morocco appears to suffer from a number of shortcomings. The objective of the study is to discover, thanks to the comparison of three training systems (Finland , France and Morocco) if there are characteristics which would allow us to understand the relative "advantages" of one system compared to another, and to what extent such a comparison would help us improve Morocco's. The country in question are considered to have the best performing education systems globally. This involves carrying out a comparative documentary study, that is to say analysing existing documents on teacher training systems by comparing them in the mentioned context.

scholarly journals IMPROVING QUALITY OF PREPARATION OF PROJECTS OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR EXAMPLE OF KAMCHATSKY REGION

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
Дмитрий Баталов ◽  
Dmitry Batalov
Keyword(s):  
Business Case ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
Front End ◽  
Kamchatka Region ◽  
Study Results

The article is devoted to the problem of poor quality preparation of projects for the development of territories in Russia, in particular the Kamchatka region. We consider the current approach to the preparation of projects - Early planning of the project. The article presents the results of the conceptual analysis of the state front-end systems in Norway, the Netherlands, and options for preparing projects / programs that are applied by Russian public authorities. The author formulates problems and conceptual inconsistencies in the preparation of Russian projects / programs. The article compares the approaches to the preparation of business projects by foreign companies with an approach to project preparation by Russian business in cooperation with the public authorities. The article presents the study results, which confirm the low awareness of participants in the project activity on front-end project planning and the initiating document. The results of the survey confirm the hypothesis that there is no phase of акщте-утв project planning in the activities of public authorities and business. The author emphasizes the importance of the application of the initiating document "Business Case", and formulates recommendations for improving the quality of the preparation of territorial projects

scholarly journals Quality of life and satisfaction of users of total tissue-supported and implant-supported prostheses in the municipality of Macapá, Brazil

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Éber Coelho Paraguassu ◽  
Anneli Celis Mercedes de Cardenas
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Oral Health Impact Profile ◽  
Analog Scale ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Qualitative Variables ◽  
Removable Prosthesis ◽  
Total Tissue

AbstractDespite the high number of total edentulism cases in Brazil, no studies have yet examined the characteristics of people with edentulism in Amapá. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate and compared the satisfaction and quality of life of edentulous users of total tissue-supported and total implant-supported prostheses in Macapá, Amapá, Brazil. Two hundred ninety-nine users of total tissue-supported prostheses and 48 users of total implant-supported prostheses were surveyed using two questionnaires: The Oral Health Impact Profile-14Br and a visual analog scale of satisfaction. The means and standard deviations were used to characterize the quantitative variables and absolute and relative frequencies were used to characterize the qualitative variables as well as certain quantitative variables. When evaluating users’ satisfaction according to the type of prosthesis, we found that users of implant-supported prostheses were 100% satisfied with both upper and lower prostheses. By contrast, among users of tissue-supported prostheses, 90% reported being satisfied with the upper prosthesis, while 56% demonstrated some dissatisfaction with the lower removable prosthesis. All users of implant-supported prostheses reported good quality of life; by contrast, only 5% of users of tissue-supported prostheses reported good quality of life, while 73% reported a reasonable quality of life and 22% a poor quality of life. To our knowledge, this is the first study on this topic in Amapá. The study results are clinically relevant for accurately determining the quality of life of these prosthesis users.

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