Michael Ewers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1267201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Ewers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Ewers |
| SIGNATURE | EWERS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1240-0522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 211 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The pillars of protection: Wage security, legal awareness, and migrant rights in a reforming Qatar
How and to what degree have the foundational drivers of migrant worker welfare changed? Our paper addresses this question through a cross-sectional comparative analysis of two unique datasets of migrant workers in Qatar: a historical benchmark (2017–2021) and a new post-reform survey (2024). The comparison relies on two independent cross-sections of different workers as opposed to longitudinal tracking of the same individuals. We use survey-weigh…
Disaster Health Literacy – development and validation of a short measurement instrument in German to supplement the HLS19 instruments
Introduction In many countries, promoting the ability to protect one’s own life and health and to help oneself when faced with adversity is a cornerstone of disaster risk reduction. For this reason, the population must be able to access, understand, assess and apply the information necessary to do so. So far, there have been only a few attempts to define this so-called “Disaster Health Literacy” (DIS-HL), and there is a lack of easy-to-use instru…
What are the emerging contours of regional decarbonization? Insights from an exploratory analysis of US clean hydrogen hubs
Three takes on Gulf cities and urban politics
New spaces of inequality with the rise of remote work: Autonomy, technostress, and life disruption
Performance evaluation of automated white matter hyperintensity segmentation algorithms in a multicenter cohort on cognitive impairment and dementia
To conclude, the deep learning algorithm, when retrained, performed well in the multicenter context. Nevertheless, the performance was close to traditional methods. We provide methodological recommendations for future studies using automated WMH segmentation to quantify and assess WMH along the continuum of cognitive impairment and AD dementia
Beyond vulnerability: Contextualizing migrant worker views on rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab states
This paper examines migrant workers’ subjective views of their rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab state of Qatar. Since the announcement of the World Cup, Qatar has been roundly criticized for the living and working conditions of the low-wage migrant workers responsible for building the country’s social and economic infrastructure. These critiques, however, either emphasize individual migrant experiences of mistreatment or the kafala migration…
Graduate migration, partisanship, and city preferences: An experimental approach to place‐consonant migration decisions
How do university students evaluate prospective jobs in different cities after graduation? While the literature has identified drivers of graduate migration, research has yet to account for the role of individual social and political attitudes in shaping destination preferences. Using a conjoint survey experiment, this paper introduces the concept of place‐consonant migration to describe the desire for proximity to like‐minded communities with re…
Resilience and Sustainability in the Gulf Migration Regimes: Kafāla in the Era of Covid-19
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has strongly reaffirmed the critical importance of labor migration to the global economy, even as it has raised questions about the temporary migration programs responsible for much of this migration. In the Arab Gulf states – home to some of the world’s highest proportions of migrants – the pandemic has highlighted critical structural weaknesses in the region’s kafāla migration regimes. Drawing on two nationally rep…
Will peak talent arrive before peak oil or peak demand: Exploring whether career choices of highly skilled workers will accelerate the transition to renewable energy
Peak oil and peak demand hypotheses have generated significant research attention as claims that identify and explain pathways to decarbonization, but perspectives from human capital have been less prominent. We outline a peak talent hypothesis based on the idea that current and future oil and gas talent – comprising managerial, professional, and technical positions requiring a university degree – are opting to leave fossil fuels for careers in r…
Skilled migration to emerging economies: The global competition for talent beyond the West
Here we chart new trends in the globalization of human capital, and the implications of these trends for our current understanding of skilled international labour migration. Existing approaches to skilled migration have developed around the drivers and consequences of global talent mobility to and between traditional destinations in Europe and North America. However, in the emerging economies of South and Southeast Asia and the Arabian Peninsula,…
Bargaining Power: A Framework for Understanding Varieties of Migration Experience
This article introduces the concept of bargaining power as a framework for understanding varieties of migration experience and behavior. We argue that migration and settlement experiences vary according to a migrant’s leverage — or bargaining power — afforded by their individual cultural and socioeconomic capital (internal bargaining power) and their home country’s political and physical security characteristics (external bargaining power). These…
Solar labor market transitions in the United Arab Emirates
Refinancing the Rentier State: Welfare, Inequality, and Citizen Preferences toward Fiscal Reform in the Gulf Oil Monarchies
Against the backdrop of fiscal reform efforts in Middle East oil producers, this article proposes a general framework for understanding how citizens relate to welfare benefits in the rentier state and then tests some observable implications using original survey data from the quintessential rentier state of Qatar. Using two novel choice experiments, we ask Qataris to choose between competing forms of economic subsidies and state spending, produci…
Whitepaper: Defining and investigating cognitive reserve, brain reserve, and brain maintenance
Several concepts, which in the aggregate get might be used to account for “resilience” against age‐ and disease‐related changes, have been the subject of much research. These include brain reserve, cognitive reserve, and brain maintenance. However, different investigators have use these terms in different ways, and there has never been an attempt to arrive at consensus on the definition of these concepts. Furthermore, there has been confusion reg…
Gender and mobility: Qatar's highly skilled female migrants in context
Very little is known about the life experiences of highly skilled female migrants and almost nothing about them outside of Western contexts. This paper attempts to address this knowledge gap by examining the experiences of highly skilled migrant women working in the Persian Gulf monarchy of Qatar. Drawing on in-depth interviews with a sample of highly skilled migrants in Qatar, the paper examines the experiences of highly skilled migrant women in…
Long-Term Care for Tracheotomised Patients With or Without Invasive Ventilation. Lessons Learned from a Scoping Review of International Concepts
INTRODUCTION: Patients with long-term tracheostomies, with or without mechanical ventilation have complex and comprehensive healthcare needs. The number of patients is increasing internationally. Evidence suggests poor healthcare quality and outcomes, especially in Germany. Against this background, we searched for international concepts tailoring healthcare to these special needs, their key characteristics and results from their evaluations. METH…
Potentials of School Nursing for Strengthening the Health Literacy of Children, Parents and Teachers
Health literacy (HL) plays a key role in explaining health disparities. School nurses (SN) provide health related expertise within the school setting. A positive effect on the HL of children but also their teachers and parents has been suggested by some research, but gaps persist in the available information. As a pilot project, SN, which are not common in German schools, were placed in 28 public elementary and secondary schools in two German sta…
Becoming Linked In: Leveraging Professional Networks for Elite Surveys and Interviews
Finding and recruiting survey and interview participants remains an important and time-consuming process for mixed methods researchers. For those operating in cross-cultural contexts, these barriers are particularly salient as researchers must overcome both geographic and cultural distances. Traditional recruitment methods often leave researchers reliant on available corporate directories and ‘gatekeepers’ for access to and recruitment of corpora…
Migrant Worker Well-Being and Its Determinants: The Case of Qatar
Welfare Index of Migrant Workers in the Gulf: The Case of Qatar
In December 2010, Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup games. The FIFA announcement came with increasing pressure from international human rights organizations, media and other groups for Qatar to reform its labour law, which governs the lives and working conditions of foreign workers in the country. Although Qatar continues to develop and implement major reforms to its labour laws, until now there was no one unique tool based on …
Im/mobile highly skilled migrants in Qatar
Most studies on the mobility of highly skilled migrants have been examined with a framework of global talent mobility and under conditions of neoliberal governance and economic globalization. In this study we challenge the notion of the hypermobile knowledge worker. Utilizing mixed methods, we examine the factors that attracted highly skilled migrants to Qatar and the conditions under which they might leave in the future. Rather than finding a gr…
High-Skilled Migration and the Attractiveness of Cities
This chapter examines the relationship between highly skilled international migration and urban–regional development. We describe how this mobility–urbanization nexus is conditioned by the various scalar actors. The locational preference-seeking of high-skilled workers gives insight into the individual determinants of migration. Meanwhile, the hiring and recruitment practices of local and international firms further conditions these outcomes. As …
Exaggerating good governance: Regime type and score inflation among executive survey informants
Researchers and policymakers often rely on executive surveys to understand and promote good governance. In doing so, they assume that the evaluations provided by these well‐informed respondents are not systematically influenced by regime type. However, regime‐embedded executives often have a personal stake in the survey outcomes, incentivizing them to exaggerate good governance. This paper compares World Economic Forum Executive Opinion Survey re…
Economic-Development Stakeholder Perspectives on Boomtown Dynamics in the Eagle Ford Shale, Texas
Unconventional oil and gas production in the United States reversed a decades- \nold trend of rising oil imports, provided an argument for lifting the U.S. crude oil \nexport ban and motivated the development of domestic natural gas export facilities. But \nthe most visible impact of unconventional-hydrocarbon extraction is the creation of \nboomtowns in rural regions. Despite widespread media coverage, scholarly analysis of \nboomtowns is restri…
Labor migration to world cities: With a research agenda for the Arab Gulf
We place labor flows, involving both highly skilled professionals and unskilled workers, within the framework of research on world cities. These flows are central to understanding the growth of world cities, particularly those whose growth is not primarily a result of advanced producer services. The context of Arab Gulf cities allows us to understand urban growth in the region as an outcome of wealth accumulation that stimulates large flows of sk…
Migrants, markets and multinationals: Competition among world cities for the highly skilled
Im/mobile highly skilled migrants in Qatar
Most studies on the mobility of highly skilled migrants have been examined with a framework of global talent mobility and under conditions of neoliberal governance and economic globalization. In this study we challenge the notion of the hypermobile knowledge worker. Utilizing mixed methods, we examine the factors that attracted highly skilled migrants to Qatar and the conditions under which they might leave in the future. Rather than finding a gr…
International knowledge mobility and urban development in rapidly globalizing areas: Building global hubs for talent in Dubai and Abu Dhabi
This paper examines the processes through which the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai attract and integrate knowledge workers into their labor markets. It focuses on how the UAE has acquired the human capital to create post-oil economies, deploying its oil windfalls into massive urban development strategies in order to create global hubs for talent. More significantly, it analyzes how the UAE’s strategies and frameworks fo…
Oil, human capital and diversification: The challenge of transition in the UAE and the Arab Gulf States
This research studies the labour and human capital dimensions of diversification and structural change in oil economies, with a focus on the case of the UAE and the Arab Gulf States. It examines how oil-driven development in the Gulf has resulted in entrenched patterns of employment and migration, which have forestalled efforts by these countries to transition into more sustainable, post-oil economies. Utilising a mixed methods approach based on …
Economic-Development Stakeholder Perspectives on Boomtown Dynamics in the Eagle Ford Shale, Texas
Unconventional oil and gas production in the United States reversed a decades- \nold trend of rising oil imports, provided an argument for lifting the U.S. crude oil \nexport ban and motivated the development of domestic natural gas export facilities. But \nthe most visible impact of unconventional-hydrocarbon extraction is the creation of \nboomtowns in rural regions. Despite widespread media coverage, scholarly analysis of \nboomtowns is restri…
Expatriate labour markets in rapidly globalising cities: Reproducing the migrant division of labour in Abu Dhabi and Dubai
This paper studies the processes through which skilled international workers are differentially attracted to and incorporated in the rapidly globalising cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, thereby reproducing the migrant division of labour in these cities. This is accomplished by presenting results from a large-scale employment survey of foreign and local firms in these cities, as well as key informant interviews conducted with representatives of thes…
From knowledge transfer to learning: The acquisition and assimilation of human capital in the United Arab Emirates and the other Gulf States
Skilled migration to emerging economies: The global competition for talent beyond the West
Here we chart new trends in the globalization of human capital, and the implications of these trends for our current understanding of skilled international labour migration. Existing approaches to skilled migration have developed around the drivers and consequences of global talent mobility to and between traditional destinations in Europe and North America. However, in the emerging economies of South and Southeast Asia and the Arabian Peninsula,…
Refinancing the Rentier State: Welfare, Inequality, and Citizen Preferences toward Fiscal Reform in the Gulf Oil Monarchies
Against the backdrop of fiscal reform efforts in Middle East oil producers, this article proposes a general framework for understanding how citizens relate to welfare benefits in the rentier state and then tests some observable implications using original survey data from the quintessential rentier state of Qatar. Using two novel choice experiments, we ask Qataris to choose between competing forms of economic subsidies and state spending, produci…
The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier
The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier. Regional Studies. This paper examines Kuala Lumpur’s emergence as a prominent global Islamic financial centre. Its distance from the West and the Middle East offers a frontier positioning that facilitates new social practices from the integration of financial knowledge of Western world cities and Shariah authority claimed by Gulf cities. Based on primary data, the paper shows that transna…
Leapfrogging Into the Knowledge Economy: Assessing the Economic Development Strategies of the Arab Gulf States
The oil‐abundant, labour‐deficient countries of the Persian Gulf are investing their wealth towards creating economic development beyond oil. At a minimum, these strategies are attempts to craft the basis for sustainable economic development in a global economy that is more dependent on human capital and creativity than on natural resource wealth. This paper examines the Gulf development experience in light of theories on the diversification of n…
Attracting and retaining expatriates in Qatar during an era of uncertainty: Would you stay or would you go
How do foreign workers navigate competing pressures when deciding to remain in a place or leave for a new destination? Here, we explore migration decision‐making across a diverse set of migrant nationalities using an innovative survey experiment implemented in the Arab Gulf state of Qatar. Extending recent work that highlights the contribution of experiments to the study of complex migration decision‐making choices, we employ a conjoint survey ex…
Migrant Worker Well-Being and Its Determinants: The Case of Qatar
Exaggerating good governance: Regime type and score inflation among executive survey informants
Researchers and policymakers often rely on executive surveys to understand and promote good governance. In doing so, they assume that the evaluations provided by these well‐informed respondents are not systematically influenced by regime type. However, regime‐embedded executives often have a personal stake in the survey outcomes, incentivizing them to exaggerate good governance. This paper compares World Economic Forum Executive Opinion Survey re…
Welfare Index of Migrant Workers in the Gulf: The Case of Qatar
In December 2010, Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup games. The FIFA announcement came with increasing pressure from international human rights organizations, media and other groups for Qatar to reform its labour law, which governs the lives and working conditions of foreign workers in the country. Although Qatar continues to develop and implement major reforms to its labour laws, until now there was no one unique tool based on …
Bargaining Power: A Framework for Understanding Varieties of Migration Experience
This article introduces the concept of bargaining power as a framework for understanding varieties of migration experience and behavior. We argue that migration and settlement experiences vary according to a migrant’s leverage — or bargaining power — afforded by their individual cultural and socioeconomic capital (internal bargaining power) and their home country’s political and physical security characteristics (external bargaining power). These…
Solar labor market transitions in the United Arab Emirates
Becoming Linked In: Leveraging Professional Networks for Elite Surveys and Interviews
Finding and recruiting survey and interview participants remains an important and time-consuming process for mixed methods researchers. For those operating in cross-cultural contexts, these barriers are particularly salient as researchers must overcome both geographic and cultural distances. Traditional recruitment methods often leave researchers reliant on available corporate directories and ‘gatekeepers’ for access to and recruitment of corpora…
Creating and sustaining Islamic financial centers: Bahrain in the wake of financial and political crises
Although primarily concentrated in countries with Muslim majorities, Islamic finance has become a global industry representing both a decentering of the global financial architecture and the emergence of an urban network that resides beyond the confines of traditional world city literature. While geographers have identified the “Mecca’s” of the Islamic finance industry – one of which is Bahrain – there remains a need to identify the factors neces…
Risk and the Securitisation of Student Migration to the United States
This paper examines the construction of international students as objects of security in the United States during the period surrounding 11 September, 2001. Competing perceptions of international student migration as threatening or beneficial contributed to policy discourses that sought to mitigate the risk inherent in migration. The events of 9/11 prompted new evaluations of migration risk, and in particular, foreign students were securitised – …
What are the emerging contours of regional decarbonization? Insights from an exploratory analysis of US clean hydrogen hubs
Beyond vulnerability: Contextualizing migrant worker views on rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab states
This paper examines migrant workers’ subjective views of their rights and wellbeing in the Gulf Arab state of Qatar. Since the announcement of the World Cup, Qatar has been roundly criticized for the living and working conditions of the low-wage migrant workers responsible for building the country’s social and economic infrastructure. These critiques, however, either emphasize individual migrant experiences of mistreatment or the kafala migration…
Will peak talent arrive before peak oil or peak demand: Exploring whether career choices of highly skilled workers will accelerate the transition to renewable energy
Peak oil and peak demand hypotheses have generated significant research attention as claims that identify and explain pathways to decarbonization, but perspectives from human capital have been less prominent. We outline a peak talent hypothesis based on the idea that current and future oil and gas talent – comprising managerial, professional, and technical positions requiring a university degree – are opting to leave fossil fuels for careers in r…
Migrants, markets and multinationals: Competition among world cities for the highly skilled
Labor migration to world cities: With a research agenda for the Arab Gulf
We place labor flows, involving both highly skilled professionals and unskilled workers, within the framework of research on world cities. These flows are central to understanding the growth of world cities, particularly those whose growth is not primarily a result of advanced producer services. The context of Arab Gulf cities allows us to understand urban growth in the region as an outcome of wealth accumulation that stimulates large flows of sk…
Risk and the Securitisation of Student Migration to the United States
This paper examines the construction of international students as objects of security in the United States during the period surrounding 11 September, 2001. Competing perceptions of international student migration as threatening or beneficial contributed to policy discourses that sought to mitigate the risk inherent in migration. The events of 9/11 prompted new evaluations of migration risk, and in particular, foreign students were securitised – …
Leapfrogging Into the Knowledge Economy: Assessing the Economic Development Strategies of the Arab Gulf States
The oil‐abundant, labour‐deficient countries of the Persian Gulf are investing their wealth towards creating economic development beyond oil. At a minimum, these strategies are attempts to craft the basis for sustainable economic development in a global economy that is more dependent on human capital and creativity than on natural resource wealth. This paper examines the Gulf development experience in light of theories on the diversification of n…
From knowledge transfer to learning: The acquisition and assimilation of human capital in the United Arab Emirates and the other Gulf States
International knowledge mobility and urban development in rapidly globalizing areas: Building global hubs for talent in Dubai and Abu Dhabi
This paper examines the processes through which the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai attract and integrate knowledge workers into their labor markets. It focuses on how the UAE has acquired the human capital to create post-oil economies, deploying its oil windfalls into massive urban development strategies in order to create global hubs for talent. More significantly, it analyzes how the UAE’s strategies and frameworks fo…
Creating and sustaining Islamic financial centers: Bahrain in the wake of financial and political crises
Although primarily concentrated in countries with Muslim majorities, Islamic finance has become a global industry representing both a decentering of the global financial architecture and the emergence of an urban network that resides beyond the confines of traditional world city literature. While geographers have identified the “Mecca’s” of the Islamic finance industry – one of which is Bahrain – there remains a need to identify the factors neces…
The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier
The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier. Regional Studies. This paper examines Kuala Lumpur’s emergence as a prominent global Islamic financial centre. Its distance from the West and the Middle East offers a frontier positioning that facilitates new social practices from the integration of financial knowledge of Western world cities and Shariah authority claimed by Gulf cities. Based on primary data, the paper shows that transna…
Oil, human capital and diversification: The challenge of transition in the UAE and the Arab Gulf States
This research studies the labour and human capital dimensions of diversification and structural change in oil economies, with a focus on the case of the UAE and the Arab Gulf States. It examines how oil-driven development in the Gulf has resulted in entrenched patterns of employment and migration, which have forestalled efforts by these countries to transition into more sustainable, post-oil economies. Utilising a mixed methods approach based on …
Expatriate labour markets in rapidly globalising cities: Reproducing the migrant division of labour in Abu Dhabi and Dubai
This paper studies the processes through which skilled international workers are differentially attracted to and incorporated in the rapidly globalising cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, thereby reproducing the migrant division of labour in these cities. This is accomplished by presenting results from a large-scale employment survey of foreign and local firms in these cities, as well as key informant interviews conducted with representatives of thes…
Attracting and retaining expatriates in Qatar during an era of uncertainty: Would you stay or would you go
How do foreign workers navigate competing pressures when deciding to remain in a place or leave for a new destination? Here, we explore migration decision‐making across a diverse set of migrant nationalities using an innovative survey experiment implemented in the Arab Gulf state of Qatar. Extending recent work that highlights the contribution of experiments to the study of complex migration decision‐making choices, we employ a conjoint survey ex…
High-Skilled Migration and the Attractiveness of Cities
This chapter examines the relationship between highly skilled international migration and urban–regional development. We describe how this mobility–urbanization nexus is conditioned by the various scalar actors. The locational preference-seeking of high-skilled workers gives insight into the individual determinants of migration. Meanwhile, the hiring and recruitment practices of local and international firms further conditions these outcomes. As …
Exaggerating good governance: Regime type and score inflation among executive survey informants
Researchers and policymakers often rely on executive surveys to understand and promote good governance. In doing so, they assume that the evaluations provided by these well‐informed respondents are not systematically influenced by regime type. However, regime‐embedded executives often have a personal stake in the survey outcomes, incentivizing them to exaggerate good governance. This paper compares World Economic Forum Executive Opinion Survey re…
Economic-Development Stakeholder Perspectives on Boomtown Dynamics in the Eagle Ford Shale, Texas
Unconventional oil and gas production in the United States reversed a decades- \nold trend of rising oil imports, provided an argument for lifting the U.S. crude oil \nexport ban and motivated the development of domestic natural gas export facilities. But \nthe most visible impact of unconventional-hydrocarbon extraction is the creation of \nboomtowns in rural regions. Despite widespread media coverage, scholarly analysis of \nboomtowns is restri…
Welfare Index of Migrant Workers in the Gulf: The Case of Qatar
In December 2010, Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup games. The FIFA announcement came with increasing pressure from international human rights organizations, media and other groups for Qatar to reform its labour law, which governs the lives and working conditions of foreign workers in the country. Although Qatar continues to develop and implement major reforms to its labour laws, until now there was no one unique tool based on …
Im/mobile highly skilled migrants in Qatar
Most studies on the mobility of highly skilled migrants have been examined with a framework of global talent mobility and under conditions of neoliberal governance and economic globalization. In this study we challenge the notion of the hypermobile knowledge worker. Utilizing mixed methods, we examine the factors that attracted highly skilled migrants to Qatar and the conditions under which they might leave in the future. Rather than finding a gr…
Whitepaper: Defining and investigating cognitive reserve, brain reserve, and brain maintenance
Several concepts, which in the aggregate get might be used to account for “resilience” against age‐ and disease‐related changes, have been the subject of much research. These include brain reserve, cognitive reserve, and brain maintenance. However, different investigators have use these terms in different ways, and there has never been an attempt to arrive at consensus on the definition of these concepts. Furthermore, there has been confusion reg…
Gender and mobility: Qatar's highly skilled female migrants in context
Very little is known about the life experiences of highly skilled female migrants and almost nothing about them outside of Western contexts. This paper attempts to address this knowledge gap by examining the experiences of highly skilled migrant women working in the Persian Gulf monarchy of Qatar. Drawing on in-depth interviews with a sample of highly skilled migrants in Qatar, the paper examines the experiences of highly skilled migrant women in…
Long-Term Care for Tracheotomised Patients With or Without Invasive Ventilation. Lessons Learned from a Scoping Review of International Concepts
INTRODUCTION: Patients with long-term tracheostomies, with or without mechanical ventilation have complex and comprehensive healthcare needs. The number of patients is increasing internationally. Evidence suggests poor healthcare quality and outcomes, especially in Germany. Against this background, we searched for international concepts tailoring healthcare to these special needs, their key characteristics and results from their evaluations. METH…
Potentials of School Nursing for Strengthening the Health Literacy of Children, Parents and Teachers
Health literacy (HL) plays a key role in explaining health disparities. School nurses (SN) provide health related expertise within the school setting. A positive effect on the HL of children but also their teachers and parents has been suggested by some research, but gaps persist in the available information. As a pilot project, SN, which are not common in German schools, were placed in 28 public elementary and secondary schools in two German sta…
Becoming Linked In: Leveraging Professional Networks for Elite Surveys and Interviews
Finding and recruiting survey and interview participants remains an important and time-consuming process for mixed methods researchers. For those operating in cross-cultural contexts, these barriers are particularly salient as researchers must overcome both geographic and cultural distances. Traditional recruitment methods often leave researchers reliant on available corporate directories and ‘gatekeepers’ for access to and recruitment of corpora…
Migrant Worker Well-Being and Its Determinants: The Case of Qatar
Skilled migration to emerging economies: The global competition for talent beyond the West
Here we chart new trends in the globalization of human capital, and the implications of these trends for our current understanding of skilled international labour migration. Existing approaches to skilled migration have developed around the drivers and consequences of global talent mobility to and between traditional destinations in Europe and North America. However, in the emerging economies of South and Southeast Asia and the Arabian Peninsula,…
Bargaining Power: A Framework for Understanding Varieties of Migration Experience
This article introduces the concept of bargaining power as a framework for understanding varieties of migration experience and behavior. We argue that migration and settlement experiences vary according to a migrant’s leverage — or bargaining power — afforded by their individual cultural and socioeconomic capital (internal bargaining power) and their home country’s political and physical security characteristics (external bargaining power). These…
Solar labor market transitions in the United Arab Emirates
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