Search for dissertations about: "Career Growth"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 swedish dissertations containing the words Career Growth.

2. 1. Income Redistribution, Educational Choice and Growth

   Author : Camilo von Greiff; Hans Wijkander; Henry Ohlsson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Taxation; Income redistribution; Education subsidies; Growth; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : This thesis contains three theoretical essays on public economics and economics of education. They all focus on different types of redistribution of labor income between individuals and their consequences for income distribution and economic growth. READ MORE

4. 2. The Aspirants : How faith is built in emerging occupations

   Author : Rebecca Ye; Charlotta Stern; Mikaela Sundberg; Phillip Brown; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; weak-form occupations; transitions; temporality; anticipation; career scripts; projections; school culture; higher vocational education and training; yrkeshögskola; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : Anticipating future demands in skills and workforce development has been a longstanding practice and challenge for governments and policy-makers. While such developments are examined closely at the national and regional levels, an even more pressing issue is to advance our understanding of how people who take on jobs in new and emerging fields embark on and persist in their occupational pathways. READ MORE

5. 3. In Search for Greener Grass : Employee Mobility, Self-employment and Career Choices in the Wake of Consolidation

   Author : Monia Lougui; Anders Broström; Olenka Kacperczyk; KTH; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mergers and acquisitions; Employee mobility; Entrepreneurship; Self-employment; Teams; Managers; Homophily; Labor market; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Industriell ekonomi och organisation; Industrial Economics and Management;

   Abstract : In this environment of increasingly knowledge intensive economy, individuals with their embedded skills and knowledge are the main source of value for an organization. Both employers andemployees have strong reasons to consider the causes and consequences of job mobility. READ MORE

6. 4. Changes in Workplaces and Careers

   Author : Christina Håkanson; Per Krusell; Claudia Olivetti; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Technical change; skill sorting; cognitive skills; non-cognitive skills; employer-employee matched data; organizational change; female labor supply; fertility; flexibility; family-career trade-off; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : Organizational Change and Productivity Growth − Evidence from SwedenThis paper uses two different firm level surveys matched with employer-employee data to investigate both determinants and effects of different types of organizational change. The results support the competition hypothesis for inducing organizational change. READ MORE

7. 5. Consider her adversity : four essays on gender inequality in the labor market

   Author : Mia Hultin; Donald Tpomaskovic-Devey; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : Paper I: Gender Differences in Workplace Authority:Discrimination and the Role of Organizational LeadersThis paper examines to what extent discrimination accounts for inequalities in authority exertion between women and men in the Swedish labor market. Processes governing authority attainment are studied in terms of human capital and family responsibilities as well as of the horizontal sex segregation in the labor market. READ MORE