Search for dissertations about: "Human Capital Formation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the words Human Capital Formation.
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1. Societal Impacts of Modern Conscription : Human Capital, Social Capital and Criminal Behaviour
Abstract : Opportunity Costs and Conscription: An Unintended Progressive Tax?Throughout history to present days, policymakers, social commentators and others have oftentimes viewed conscription as a natural extension of secondary education, and an important institution for vocational training. This paper uses Swedish administrative data and exploits a reform in 2004, implying a sudden downsizing of the military, to identify the causal effects of peacetime conscription on later labour market outcomes and education. READ MORE
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2. Essays on human capital and wage formation
Abstract : This thesis consists of three independent essays. In the first essay, I examine the implications of income redistribution on human capital accu-mulation and income inequality, presenting a model where human capital investment is indi-visible and agents differ in economic opportunity as well as intellectual ability. READ MORE
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3. Regions, Human Capital and New Firm Formation
Abstract : This thesis shows the importance of human capital at the individual, firm, and regional level through its effects on returns to education, firm productivity and new firm formation. The thesis further shows the importance of banks as a determinant for new firm formation at the local level. READ MORE
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4. Human capital development and competence structures in changing media production environments
Abstract : This doctoral thesis discusses the competence structures and the development of human capital in the graphic arts and media sector. The study has focused on exploring the new media landscape and in particular the structural changes that influence the sector, the print-versuselectronic- media debate and the future of print media. READ MORE
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5. Human Capital, Social Networks and New Firm Formation - The Role of Academic and External Entrepreneurs in University Spin-offs
Abstract : There is a debate about the development and performance of university spin-offs, i.e. firms created to commercialize university knowledge. READ MORE