Search for dissertations about: "Strikes"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 41 swedish dissertations containing the word Strikes.
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1. Essays in Political Economy
Abstract : This thesis consists of an introduction and three stand-alone essays. In the introduction I discuss the commonalities between the three essays. Essay I charts the the main political cleavages among 59 Swedish unions and business organizations. READ MORE
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2. Growth without Democracy : Challenges to Authoritarianism in Vietnam
Abstract : Vietnam today can clearly be counted as a case of economic success. At a party congress in the mid-1980s, the formal decisions were made on a reform program under the name of Doi Moi (renovation), which aimed at liberalising and reforming the economy. READ MORE
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3. The Fate of Organized Labor : Explaining Unionization, Wage Inequality, and Strikes across Time and Space
Abstract : The point of departure for this thesis is the divergent fate of organized labor during the last decades in the Western world. Given what we know about actual trends, how are we to explain the variation in the strength of organized labor across time and space? The thesis consists of four self-contained essays. READ MORE
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4. On The Initiation of Upward Positive Leader Discharges During Lightning Strikes
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5. On the Attachment of Lightning Flashes to Wind Turbines
Abstract : The work presented in this thesis aims at investigating the attachment of lightning flashes to wind turbines. Modern wind turbines are highly exposed to lightning strikes, due to the increase of their height and the rotation of the blades. Upward lightning is the dominant mechanism of lightning strikes to them. READ MORE