This thesis disaggregates the ‘Swedish paradox’ with respect to Swedish manufacturing from 1987 to 2007. This is done by analyzing the impact of R&D expenditure in industry on industry growth of the manufacturing industry in Sweden from 1987 to 2007. A quantitative approach using panel-data from Statistics Sweden (SCB) and OECD is used to investigate the effect of R&D expenditure on econom

This essay is an event study of the share price of a number of companies listed at the Stockholm Exchange Market which prior to the dates studied only had men in their board. The purpose of the essay is to study whether the announcement of a new female board member affects the share price. The number of companies used in the study is 25. The essay builds its reasoning on theories on efficient mark

Sammanfattning De senaste årtiondena har sjukvården i stora delar av Västeuropa präglats av strukturella förändringar. Kostnaderna för sjukvård ökar dramatiskt medan intäkterna är svåra att påverka. Med anledning av de ökande kostnaderna har sjukvården även fått en allt större roll på den politiska agendan, vilket har lett till att sjukvården har blivit föremål för många olika strategier. En synl

From the recent mortality trends in Central and Eastern Europe, it is clear that in the former socialist countries the economic transition had a different effect on male and female mortality: premature death became much more frequent among males, and the gender mortality gap increased as a result. The psycho-social stress hypothesis (Cornia and Paniccia, 2001) explains the Eastern European experie

This Master’s thesis aims to identify aspects of the school librarians’ accessibility in the school library, which is the integral part of the local public library and where integration bears the meaning of two spheres of activities sharing both space and recourses. One of the aspects concerns the design of the library organization and its impact on the school librarians’ accessibility. Another as

Based on individual interviews with six single mothers in the Guatemalan countryside this thesis describes the stigmatization and vulnerability of women who depart from the norm of a society ruled by men. Guatemala is an underdeveloped and violent country, where both men and women are exposed. The vulnerability of women, however, is in many cases huge since the culture of machismo and male superio

I uppsatsen undersöks hur användningen av ordet typ har förändrats i dagspress under perioden 1965–2009 och vad som kan ha lett till denna utveckling. Syntaktiskt har ordet under perioden gått från att vara ett regelrätt substantiv till att fungera som en preposition och slutligen ett adverb. Semantiskt har ordets betydelse under samma tid blivit allt vagare. Denna utveckling relateras i uppsatsen

The aim of this paper is to study the influence of indigenous identification on the fertility of Mexican women. It has been debated if the higher fertility of indigenous women in the Country is due to culture and traditions specifics of indigenous people, or if it is caused by socioeconomic and demographic factors. Controlling for socioeconomic and demographic variables, the results from an Ordina

Uppsatsen handlar om den nya svenska yrkeshögskolan i ett inledningsskede. Den övergripande frågeställningen är hur reformen kan förstås utifrån olika perspektiv. Forskningsfrågorna gäller vilka politiska ställningstaganden som låg bakom beslutet och vilka kvalifikationer utbildningen ska leda till i relation till annan svensk formell yrkesinriktad utbildning och till internationella standarder. E

This paper consists of a Namibian case study of how current debates in Namibia view ‘colonial legacies’ and how these legacies continue to affect the Namibian society today. The discourses are built upon identified challenges of the Namibian society and the debates about them, and thereafter they are supported with the theoretical framework. The study was carried out through qualitative methods of

I began this essay with the question: Does the Parental Leave Act (1995:584) affect the Swedish men's tendency to take their parental leave? As a rule of law (and law itself) is a standard that is elevated to rule the purpose was to see if this legislation (as standard) has affected men's propensity to take their parental leave, and also if there has been a restructuring with regard to the

Eftersom Internetanvändandet blir allt mer vanligt i privatpersoners vardagliga sysslor och att hoten på Internet expanderar allt mer, så har vi här jämfört vad två experter från de ledande antivirusföretagen har för åsikter gentemot privatpersoners erfarenheter. De empiriska data vi samlat in är hämtade via en webbenkät som är utskickad till ett femtiotal privatpersoner, i vilken vi kartlagt der

The recent economic turmoil has increased volatility on the Swedish stock market and made investors more exposed to risk in an uncertain environment. This research will investigate if the quantitative portfolio optimization models Mean-Variance and CVaR can produce risk-adjusted returns for investors acting in the Swedish stock market. From the classic Mean-Variance model different investment stra

Despite western familiarity with Japan, there is little general knowledge of Japanese national minorities; the myth of Japanese homogeneity is well entrenched. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between discrimination and invisibility, specifically how the two affect each other. By exploring how 3 minorities have been discriminated and made invisible, I argue that invisibilit

This essay is a discussion on nonviolence as a resistance strategy. First off it gives the reader an overview of some of the theories, strategies and methods discussed in the research field of nonviolence. These theories are then used to perform a comparative analysis on two successful nonviolent resistance movements, Kmara in Georgia and WIPNET in Liberia. The comparison shows that there are simi

Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att ta reda på om facebooks popularitet grundar sig i den förenklade kommunikationen och interaktionen sidan erbjuder, alternativt om sidan är till för att projicera sin identitet eller om båda exemplen är orsakerna. Vi har även varit intresserade av att utreda hur användarna väljer att skildra sig själva utifrån publikens förväntningar, syftet är att avspegla hu

Counterfeit pharmaceuticals are a global threat that often doesn’t receive as much attention needed to rectify the problem. There have been many incidents and deaths caused by the effects of these dangerous medicines, especially in developing countries. Globalization processes have contributed to dark sides and global shadow networks such as the illegal trade of counterfeited pharmaceuticals. Afte