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This study examines possibility of positive contribution of population aging to enrolment ratios in tertiary education of 32 OECD countries from 1970 onward. It estimates an equation with fertility, life expectancy, GDP per capita, schooling age population for tertiary education and expenditures to education. In the equation, the variables reflect demand, supply and constraints on education identi

Master thesis in the programme Film & Media Producing. The summary of the process of making the short film “Paranoia”

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how accurate multiple valuations are in relation to the DCF. Furthermore, the accuracy of equity and entity multiples will be compared. Finally, we will try to determine the factors underlying the valuation errors. Our results suggest similar performance from the multiples approach in relation to the DCF model in estimating corporate value with eight

This thesis gives a historical perspective on current debates on growing inequalities in Swedish schools, by analysing explanations to differences in educational spending between rural municipalities in Sweden in the 1870s using a multi-variate regression model. The results indicate that both absolute wealth and the size of the middle-class are good predictors of school spending at local level. Th

Forecasts and analysis on real estate values and house prices are an ever-present problem for several different players. Often there is debate about the values of housing prices or housing bubbles in the Swedish cities. The difficulty with the valuation of housing, compared with other products, is their unique location. No housing is another comparable, and because of this there is no certain mark

The share of transport sector green house gas emissions has been increasing in the EU-15 in the recent decades. Moreover, the development in passenger and freight transport subsectors has diverged. This thesis provides drivers of freight transport carbon emissions in the EU-15 between 1995 and 2008 by conducting Log Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) decomposition. It differentiates between structure, inte

Despite the large theoretical corpus on approaches to dealing with negative externalities of road transport, there is a remarkable lack of connection to practically implemented road transport schemes. This thesis gives two implemented road transport management systems, the congestion charging scheme as introduced in Stockholm and the low emission zone as introduced in Berlin, their place in the li

Landskrona appears in many contexts as a city with constant social problems and violent crime. These are mainly linked to the central areas. Although, if you look at statistics of violent crime of Landskrona the numbers have actually decreased in recent years. Therefore the thesis of this paper is about violent crime in the city of Landskrona. My approach has been applying two different theories o

The present study examined the relationship between perceived speechtime, therapeutic alliance, and gender in couples therapy. The aim was to investigate if there were any gender differences in therapeutic alliance and if male clients needed to rate themselves as having more perceived speech-time than female clients in order to remain in therapy. A quantitative method was used as well as questionn

Violence is a central part of criminality with young men overrepresented in assault relates violence, both as perpetrator and victim. Our aim of this study was to get a picture of what attitudes ordinary young men have toward masculinity and manliness as well of violence and how these attitudes relate to their picture of the young man as a victim. The empirical material was qualitatively collected

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka konsumenters resonemang kring köp på internet för att öka förståelsen för vad som är viktigt för att dessa ska känna förtroende för en webbutik. En kvalitativ studie har genomförts utifrån ett hermeneutiskt förhållningssätt. Ansatsen är deduktiv med induktiva inslag. Primärdata bygger på semistrukturerade intervjuer. Sekundärdata är främst hämtad från vetenskapligThe purpose of this thesis is to examine consumer’s reasoning about online shopping to increase the understanding of what is important when it comes to trusting a webstore. A qualitative study has been conducted using a hermeneutic approach. The approach is deductive with inductive elements. Raw data is based on semistructured interviews. Secondary data is mainly taken from scientific papers. The

Uppsatsen tar sin utgångspunkt i ett släktforskningsmaterial som omfattar perioden 1750-2000 vari en sammanställning görs av de förnamn som har givits personerna som ingår i denna släkt. Förutom namnen sammanställs även den sociala bakgrunden för namngivarna samman avseende de titlar som de begåvats med. Med detta material som utgångspunkt görs sedan en kvantitativ analys av materialet. Detta görs

China has ascended to be one of the best performing countries in the world and is always striving to be better. China has developed its economy by leaps and bounds; meanwhile, huge inequality has been created as the result of the rapid growth. Furthermore, besides China’s income inequality, other unequal factors, for instance: uneven social opportunities, ill-distributed social welfare and educati

The purpose of this study is to analyze and understand how branding, image and identity play a role for Nations both to attract and maintain student, customers and motivate volunteers. This will be analyzed by means of the following research questions: “how do the Nations brand themselves?” and “how do members and volunteers of nations understand the Nation’s image and how do they respond to it?”