Search for dissertations about: "active jobs"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the words active jobs.

2. 1. Do psychosocial working conditions contribute to healthy and active aging? studies of mortality, late-life health, and leisure

   Author : Charlotta Nilsen; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; Sweden Stockholm Karolinska Institutet Care Sciences and Society Department of Neurobiology; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; psychosocial working conditions; work stressors; active jobs; passive jobs; sense of coherence; middle age; socioeconomic position; mortality; physical functioning; lung function; leisure activity; old age; Sweden; longitudinal;

   Abstract : The growing demographic challenge posed by an aging population makes finding predictors of health in old age increasingly important. This thesis investigated long-term associations between midlife psychosocial working conditions and late-life health and leisure and examined whether sense of coherence in midlife modified the association between psychosocial working conditions and all-cause mortality. READ MORE

4. 2. Jobs, Unemployment, and Macroeconomic Transmission

   Author : Niels-Jakob Harbo Hansen; Per Krusell; Mike Elsby; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : Measuring Job Openings: Evidence from Swedish Plant Level Data. In modern macroeconomic models “job openings'' are a key component. Thus, when taking these models to the data we need an empirical counterpart to the theoretical concept of job openings. READ MORE

5. 3. Long-term unemployment scarring and the role of labour market policies : The case of Sweden in the 1990s

   Author : Madelene Nordlund; Mattias Strandh; Per H Jensen; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; unemployment scarring; active labour market policy; unemployment insurance; active labour market policy programme; human capital; capability approach; business cycle; job-chances; reempolyemt income; heterogeneity; Sociology; Sociologi; sociologi; Sociology;

   Abstract : The experience of unemployment puts individuals at risk of long-term negative scarring and the longer the unemployment spell, the greater the risk of negative scarring. In Sweden, labour market policies aim at reducing such risks in the form of unemployment benefits, active matching and active labour market policy programmes (ALMPs). READ MORE

6. 4. Impact of psychosocial working conditions on health in older age

   Author : Kuan-Yu Pan; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : Work takes up a large proportion of time in our adult lives, thus possibly making it an important determinant of health. This doctoral thesis aimed to investigate the impact of psychosocial working conditions on health in older age, including metabolic and cognitive health, and disability. READ MORE

7. 5. The motive to Care About Others : The Actualization of the Public Sector

   Author : Jonas Lundsten; Institutionen för psykologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : The general aim of this dissertation was to reveal how employees in Swedish municipalities were motivated in their job. Three purposes were settled on to meet the aim of the dissertation:1) investigate whether there were differences concerning motivation between employees whohad client-related jobs and employees who did not have client-related jobs, 2) investigate how the employees experienced the municipal activity as meaningful for them personally, 3)investigate the presumptions behind the experiences that made organizational goals personally meaningful for the employees. READ MORE