The aim of this thesis is to investigate the determinants of the retirement decisions in Sweden by using qualitative micro data from The Survey on Health and Retirement in probit models. The models investigate the change in job status between the first survey wave in year 2004 and the second survey wave in year 2006/2007 by adding background variables measured in years 2004. The study show that de

“It’s for the sake of the clients that we are here” – The managers’ area of discretion and their ability to influence the elderly’s daily situation. Our essay focuses on managers of nursing homes in the Swedish municipal elderly care and their ability to influence the elderly’s everyday life. We were also interested in how they use this area of discretion and the factors that influence and limit

Authors: Rebecka Werngren and Sofia Ekblom Title: The last way out. A qualitative study of how social workers reach a motion about compulsory institutional care for youth. [translated title] Supervisor: Claes Levin The purpose of this study has been to examine social workers opinion about compulsory institutional care for youths. The aim has been to recognize how professionals reach decisions abo

The perception of young men's vulnerability in the honor context Despite its existence, physical and sexual abuse of men is rarely addressed in media or research. When men are put into a context of honor, they are often seen as perpetrators, which problematize the view of young men as victims another dimension. Thus young men and boys in honor structures are faced with a dilemma when they in

This qualitative study is about how individual supportive conversation between school welfare officers and pupils in upper secondary school is carried out. The major interest of the study was to explore the problems that school welfare officers have during forced or involuntary supportive conversations with pupils, and how those problems can be understood and solved with the concept of strategies.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att utifrån ett nationalekonomiskt perspektiv redogöra för hur handel med utsläppsrätter påverkar konkurrenskraften för den svenska stålindustrin inom den europeiska stålmarknaden. Uppsatsen belyser även vad kommande förändringar i handelsdirektivet kan komma att föra med sig. Uppsatsen bygger på att med en induktiv metod redogöra för samt beskriva kvantitativa data frå

In the airline industry, it is critical for carriers to vary prices offered to different customer groups in order to extract maximum willingness-to-pay from each consumer. This essay investigates a dynamic form of third-degree price discrimination in which prices are strategically adjusted as departure date approaches. It is hypothesized that by including a stochastic element in their pricing sche

This essay investigates the extent to which the four emerging Central Eastern European stock markets of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine have become integrated with the developed market of the European Union over the sample period from 1997 to 2010. Rolling-window correlation and a more advanced, dynamic conditional correlation approach with GARCH and EGARCH specifications are utili

Author: Nina Andersson Title: The employees right – The managers obligation. A study regarding midline managers view of performance reviews. [Translated title] Supervisor: Tove Harnett Assessor: Hans Swärd In Swedish municipalities all employees have the right to once a year have a private meeting with their manager. This meeting is meant to give feedback to the employee regarding their work eff

There are today about 200 000 children living in families where either one or both parents are addicted to alcohol. These children often become young carers, as they are prematurely being placed in adult caring roles. The aim of this thesis has been to illustrate the situation for children of alcoholics and to examine how these children are coping when parents do not fulfil their parenting respons

The system on migrant domestic workers in post-industrialist countries has been widely researched, and extensive material exists on migrant domestic service from the Philippines and Eastern Europe. However, the system on domestic work performed by local women other than housewives or nonmembers of the family in the household(nonkinship) has rarely caught the attention of mainstream research commun

By using Lee-Carter model by sex and the origin of tumor we forecasted the cancer incidence. The usefulness of Lee-Carter methods to the incidence rates was shown. For forecasting the future the time trend parameter of Lee-Carter model behaves very close to Random-walk but it is not exactly Random-walk for most cases. It is better to leave the option open to AR(1) and not restrict ourselves to Ran

Att säga upp en arbetstagare på personliga uppsägningsgrunder är något som är tämligen strikt reglerat i Sverige genom 7 § LAS krav på saklig grund. Samarbetssvårigheter är kanske den svåraste grunden att nyttja då den endast i undantagsfall utgör skäl för uppsägning. Detta beror på att ett samarbetsproblem alltför lättvindigt kan tillskrivas en enskild eller flera arbetstagares vilja att göra sig

The study aims to explore the relationship between migration and the quality of education, considering the lowering quality of higher education in Georgia as one of the main ‘push-factors’. The research itself tries to identify the main motivations of why Georgian students migrate. Furthermore, the main gaps and disadvantages of the higher education system of Georgia are investigated. The findings

This thesis test weak form efficiency in the stock markets of Ukraine, Russian, and China and compare the efficiency with USA stock market. We employ Distribution test, Unit root test, Runs test, ARMA test and GARCH test to estimate the efficiency of the above four stock markets. In our study, we find that under unit root test and runs test, all of the four stock markets are not weak-form efficie

The aim of our study was to examine how gender is created in the school world and how it affects the work with boys and girls. The questions we intended to look at were: How do you respond to ADHD in the school world depending on the sex of the child, and how does it differ; What difficulties do you face in the school world when working with boys and girls with ADHD, and how do you try to solve th

This study analyzes trade and FDI effect on wages in the 20 OECD countries. These countries are divided into six samples according to their geographical position. Panel cointegration and panel OLS methods are conducted during the study. The empirical model is built up on the base of the study of Onaran and Stockhammer (2006). The panel cointegration results show that there is a long-run relationsh

Denna studie hade som syfte att undersöka vad organisationskreativitet innebär och har för följder på ett företag där kreativitet betraktades som en hygienfaktor. Studien var en kvalitativ undersökning som utgick från en grundad teoridesign. Deltagarna rekryterades via företagets verkställande direktör och resulterade i sex intervjudeltagare med olika yrkesbeteckningar. De slutsatser som kunde dra