Foreword -- Part I: The International Value of Doctorate Degrees on the Labor Market -- Part II: Doctorate Holders: Employment Outcome and Mobility -- Part III: Human Resources in Science and Technology and Their Professional Carrers -- Part IV: Conclusions.

"As the current recession ends, many workers will not be returning to the jobs they once held -- those jobs are gone. In The New Division of Labor, Frank Levy and Richard Murnane show how computers are changing the employment landscape and how the right kinds of education can ease the transition...

Skills and workforce development are at the heart of much research on work, employment and management. Policy makers and managers often consider the better development of skills to be the answer to a range of practical and policy challenges. This handbook sheds new light on all the major issues...

Challenging Women offers a radical reassessment of organisational forces for change, and the barriers encountered by the 'challenging women' (senior women managers faced with the task of transforming their organisations)

To provide a new understanding of the nature of management work The Emergent Manager concentrates on the lives and identities of real life managers inside and outside the workplace, whether that is a civil service department, a shop or a bank

This title tells the story of the principal European intellectual professions from the demise of the ancient regime to the rise of the European Union. A historical study which applies sociological concepts, it creates a European-scale picture of the professions spanning over two centuries of change

Rethinking Theory on the Role of Technological Innovation in Economic Development -- Information Model for Calculating the Rate of Technical Progress -- K-Waves and the Innovation-Technological Paradigm of Schumpeter–Mensch–Freeman–Hirooka -- Assessment of the Quality of Growth of National...

While women account for more than half of university graduates in several OECD countries, they receive only 30% of tertiary degrees granted in science and engineering fields. This publication presents the proceedings of a recent international workshop to assess the underlying causes behind the...