This book offers an insight into the complications higher education is currently facing in the Arab world. It discusses whether governance in international higher education is of particular importance in Arab countries when considering their difference in political systems, cultures, interests,...

This edited volume proposes that the phenomenon of private sector, financialized higher education expansion in the United States benefits from a range of theoretical and methodological treatments. Social scientists, policy analysts, researches, and for-profit sector leaders discuss how and to...

This book quantitatively analyses data to demonstrate India's recent progress in the education sector. India, as one of the world's fastest growing economies, currently enjoys what is termed a 'demographic dividend' meaning that, compared to most other countries, it has a relatively young...

This book covers the modelling of human behaviour in the education and labour markets, which due to their interdependency are viewed as one system. Important factors influencing the decision-making of individuals and firms in this system are discussed. The role of social environment and networks...

Section 1: Technologies in Service -- Chapter 1: Digital Banking For Alleviating Rural Poverty in Indonesia: Some Evidences -- Chapter 2: Tax Compliance and International Cultural Factors: A Multi-Level Empirical Study -- Chapter 3: Are Values of Managers Associated With The Tasks They Perform?...

This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of educational inequalities and their consequences on individual labor market outcomes for men and women in France and Germany, two countries with different education systems. Using microdata from the two countries, the analyses mainly rely on...

This book provides a fresh perspective on the ever-growing relevance of input-output analysis in problem solving. It is based on the “19th National Conference of the Input-Output Research Association of India (IORA)”, held in 2017 in Mumbai, India. The conference promoted the exchange of...

Part I: Theory of Ecological Economics -- Introduction -- 1. The Economic System and the Environment -- 2. Industrial Ecology: Material and Energy Flows, Life Cycle Analysis -- 3. The Big Picture Vision and the Environment: An International Perspective -- 4. Economic Valuation and Decision...