Search for dissertations about: "capital market"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 299 swedish dissertations containing the words capital market.
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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. Networks and Success : Access and Use of Social Capital among Young Adults in Sweden
Abstract : The thesis explores the role of social capital in shaping inequality among young adults. Social capital is defined as resources embedded in a social network and the thesis investigates differences in access to social capital, and the effects in the labor market and the housing market. READ MORE
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3. Essays on Capital Structure
Abstract : Chapter 2 analyses the relationship between capital structure and industry classification of Swedish firms. This study also analyses the determinants of the capital structure at the industry level. READ MORE
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4. Macroeconomic Fluctuations and Microeconomic Adjustments : Wages, Capital, and Labor market Policy
Abstract : Essay 1 (with Henrik Jordahl) investigates how the degree of central bank conservatism affects the government's incentives to reform the labor market. An increase in conservatism triggers two opposite effects. It reduces the inflation bias of discretionary monetary policy and hence the benefits of a reform. READ MORE
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5. The value of immigrants' human capital for labour market integration
Abstract : This dissertation focuses on the productive knowledge and skills, i.e., human capital, that immigrants bring from before immigration, as well as new human capital acquired in the destination country. READ MORE