Search for dissertations about: "Difference-in-difference"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 35 swedish dissertations containing the word Difference-in-difference.

  2. 6. Fish and Trips in the Baltic Sea - Prices, Management and Labor Supply

    Author : Cecilia Hammarlund; Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitet AgriFood Economics Centre; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Attribute prices – Hedonic inverse demand – Baltic cod fishery – Bargaining power – Difference-in-difference – Fishery management –Revenue targets;

    Abstract : The essay discusses different aspects of the market for fish from the Baltic sea. The first chapter introduces the subject and discusses how the essay relates to fishery economics and gives a background of the development of the fisheries in the Baltic Sea. Prices of different attributes of Baltic cod is the topic of the second chapter. READ MORE

  4. 7. Pension Eligibility and Retirement Behavior : Did the 1979 Swedish pension reform affect immigrant retirement behavior?

    Author : Mikael Ohlson; Mårten Palme; Olof Åslund; Växjö universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Retirement; Disability; Immigrants; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : We examine the effects of changed eligibility rules to disability pension by the 1979 Swedish pension reform on immigrant retirement behavior. The reform made disability pension in the form of basic pension available to a wider group of immigrants. READ MORE

  5. 8. The Expansion of Higher Education in Sweden and the Issue of Equality of Opportunity

    Author : Susanna Holzer; Växjö universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Higher Education; Intergenerational Educational Mobility; Relocalization; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : This paper analyzes to what extent the political means of rapidly increasing higher education in the 1990s in Sweden has increased educational inequalities (i.e. the choice of attending higher education has become less dependent on family background in the 1990s than before). READ MORE

  6. 9. Mineral Mining and Female Employment

    Author : Anja Tolonen; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : We use the rapid expansion of the number of mineral mines in Sub- Saharan Africa to explore changes in local labor markets. Matching over two decades of panel data on industrial mines to survey data for half a million women and exploiting the spatial and temporal variation in the data in a difference-in-difference strategy, we find that opening of an industrial mine induces a structural shift whereby women switch from working in agriculture to services. READ MORE

  7. 10. Immigrant entrepreneurs in a changing institutional context : a mixed embeddedness approach

    Author : Aliaksei Kazlou; Martin Klinthäll; Susanne Urban; Karl Wennberg; Monder Ram; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Immigrant entrepreneurs; Mixed embeddedness; Entrepreneurial process; Institutional change; Invandrarföretagare; Mixed embeddedness; Entreprenörsprocess; Institutionell förändring;

    Abstract : Immigrant entrepreneurs are known to be heterogeneous in terms of available resources and entrepreneurial outcomes. However, this heterogeneity, as well as immigrant entrepreneurs’ embeddedness in social networks and the institutional context of high-income welfare states such as Sweden, remains understudied. READ MORE