Search for dissertations about: "Deindustrialization"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word Deindustrialization.

  2. 1. Value Creation and Structural Change during the Third industrial Revolution. The Swedish Economy from a Vertical Perspective

    Author : Daniel Lind; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Structural change; technology; inter-industry linkages; production processes; deindustrialization; service duality; business services; global value chains; productivity.;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses structural changes and the role of technology in the Swedish economy since the 1970s. With the attention directed towards interdependencies between sectors, a vertical perspective is applied on the economy. READ MORE

  4. 2. From Pioneers to Target Group : Social Change, Ethnicity and Memory in a Lithuanian Nuclear Power Plant Community

    Author : Kristina Sliavaite; Sociologiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ignalina nuclear power plant; Deindustrialization; post-socialism; East Central Europe; ethnicity; collective memory; social change; Russian speaking population; decline; modernization; migration; enclave; risk; social insecurity; uncertainty; national insurance; Social problems and welfare; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Sociala problem; migration; risk; social välfärd; socialförsäkring; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

    Abstract : This thesis focused on an examination of human agency and strategies for responding to rapid social and economic change. Fieldwork was carried out in the community of Visaginas town that was built during the Soviet period in Lithuania. The town is situated next to the Ignalina nuclear power plant. READ MORE

  5. 3. The state of tenancy : Rental housing and municipal statecraft in Malmö, Sweden

    Author : Jennie Gustafsson; Peter Schmitt; Eva K. Andersson; Brett Christophers; Tuna Tasan-Kok; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; rental housing; public housing; private rental housing; inequality; financialization; urban governance; local state; state theory; renovations; renovictions; privatization; urban planning; housing politics; regulation approach; Rosengård; Malmö; allmännyttan; privat hyresrätt; stadsplanering; nyliberalism; finansialisering; kommun; renovering; privatisering; bostadspolitik; Herrgården; Rosengård; Malmö; geografi med kulturgeografisk inriktning; Geography with Emphasis on Human Geography; Urbana studier;

    Abstract : Rental housing tenants in Sweden and Europe are increasingly seeing their homes subsumed to market pressures. This thesis provides empirical and conceptual insights into the processes by which market and financial practices and logics shape the housing sector, through a critical analysis of rental housing in Malmö, Sweden. READ MORE

  6. 4. Essays on Poverty, Income Inequality and Health in Transition Economies

    Author : Oleksiy Ivaschenko; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Transition economies; Income inequality; Poverty; Health status; Life expectancy; Public health spending; Economics growth; Labor income; Panel data;

    Abstract : The essays in this thesis investigate issues related to poverty, income inequality and health in transition economies of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. The major questions analyzed in the essays are the determinants of changes in income inequality observed in the transition region, the role of poverty and public health spending in explaining cross-regional and inter-temporal variations in life expectancy, and the returns to health in the labor market. READ MORE