Search for dissertations about: "TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 53 swedish dissertations containing the words TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS.

  2. 1. A new paradigm of industrial organization : The diffusion of technological and managerial innovations in the Brazilian industry

    Author : Leda Gitahy; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; technological paradigm; flexible production; network; employment; skills; education; Brazilian industry; Sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : Based on the concepts of techno-economic paradigm, network and production chain, the main purpose of this dissertation is to analyse the diffusion of technological and managerial innovations in the Brazilian industry during the 1980s and the 1990s. It consists of a summary and six selected papers. READ MORE

  4. 2. Essays on Industrial Development and Political Economy of Africa

    Author : Eyerusalem G. Siba; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Agglomeration economies; African manufacturing; Credit constraints; Darfur; Ethiopia; Ethnic cleansing; Growth; Informal sector; New firms; Poverty trap; Prices; Productivity; Resource struggle; Returns to capital; Survival; Skills.;

    Abstract : Paper 1: Returns to Capital and Informality. We study the pattern of returns to capital in the formal and informal manufacturing sectors in Ethiopia. We use a rich panel dataset of manufacturing firms in the formal sector for the period 1996-2006 and two rounds of repeated cross-sectional data of the urban informal sector firms. READ MORE

  5. 3. Automation and the Consequences of Occupational Decline

    Author : Sofia Hernnäs; Georg Graetz; Per-Anders Edin; Sebastian Findeisen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; technological change; automation; routine-biased technological change; skill prices; skill bundling; occupations; inequality; health; death of despair; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Essay I. Automation affects workers because it affects the return to their skills when performing different tasks. I propose a general equilibrium model of occupational choice and technological change which takes two important labor market features into account: (i) automation happens to tasks and (ii) workers have bundled skills. READ MORE

  6. 4. Bridging the boundaries between D&T education and working life : A study of views on knowledge and skills in product development

    Author : Helena Isaksson Persson; Inga-Britt Skogh; Robert Höghielm; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; upper secondary school education; design and product development; technology programme; repertory grid technique; artefacts; engineer; industrial designer; working life; gymnasium; produktutveckling; design; teknikprogrammet; utbildning; artefakter; yrkesliv; ingenjör; industridesigner; Teknikvetenskapens lärande och kommunikation; Education and Communication in the Technological Sciences;

    Abstract : In Sweden upper secondary school education is organised in programmes. One of these programmes is the Technology programme that covers five orientations, one of which is Design and Product Development. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Immigrant Experience: Changing Employment and Income Patterns in Sweden, 1970 - 1993

    Author : Kirk Scott; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; immigrant; Social and economic history; cultural distance; technological change; Ekonomisk och social historia; integration; Sweden; labor market; income; migration; assimilation;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the changing patterns of employment and income assimilation among male immigrants to Sweden. In brief, the results of this work are that immigrants have been facing an increasingly difficult time integrating into the Swedish economy. READ MORE