Search for dissertations about: "comparative costs"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 97 swedish dissertations containing the words comparative costs.

2. 16. Microeconomic Policy for Development: Essays on Trade and Environment, Poverty and Education

   Author : Miguel Quiroga; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; absenteeism; aggregation bias; comparative advantage; decomposition analysis; education; environmental endowment; environmental regulation; factor content; geography; hyperbolic discounting; living standards; mandatory attendance; non-homothetic preferences; pollution haven; Porter hypothesis; poverty; present-biased preferences; teaching; time-inconsistent preferences; trade;

   Abstract : Abstracts This thesis contains three papers analyzing different issues. Paper 1: “Do Countries with Lax Environmental Regulations Have a Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries?” We study whether lax environmental regulations induce comparative advantages, causing the least-regulated countries to specialize in polluting industries. READ MORE

4. 17. Politicians Under Threat : Gender Aspects of Violence against Political Representatives

   Author : Sandra Håkansson; Elin Bjarnegård; Johanna Rickne; Josefina Erikson; Hilde Coffe; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Violence against Politicians; Gender and Politics; Political Violence; Political Representation; Comparative Politics;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates violence against politicians and its gender dimensions. Violence targeting elected representatives in the course of their work has received scant research attention, despite the central function of elected officials in representative democracy. READ MORE

5. 18. Out and about in the welfare state : the right to transport in everyday life for people with disabilities in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian law

   Author : Andreas Pettersson; Åsa Gunnarsson; Åsa Yttergren; Richard Sahlin; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Disability; transport; everyday life; disability law; social law; transport law; comparative law; welfare state; legal criteria; Law; juridik;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to identify how a social citizenship for people with disabilities is shaped bythe normative structures in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian law governing their right to transportin everyday life. The thesis deals with three types of transport provided by the public to private individuals: transport services, car allowances, and cash benefits for reimbursing transport costs forpeople with disabilities. READ MORE

6. 19. Behavioural, physiological and morphological correlates of life-history in killifishes − a macroevolutionary approach

   Author : Simon Eckerström-Liedholm; Alejandro Gonzalez Voyer; Björn Rogell; Alastair Wilson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; brain size evolution; comparative analysis; life-history continuum; risk-taking behaviour; sexual selection; trade-offs; etologi; Ethology;

   Abstract : Life-histories commonly evolve along a continuum from short-lived and fecund, to long-lived and less fecund. Because life-history traits are mostly components of reproduction and survival, understanding the causes and consequences of life-history variation is at the core of evolutionary biology. READ MORE

7. 20. A rational response to natural disasters? : Explaining the global rise of regional disaster risk management

   Author : Simon Hollis; Hertie School of Governance; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; World Society Theory; Comparative Regionalism; Disaster Risk Reduction; Neoliberal Institutionalism; Analytical Eclecticism;

   Abstract : Natural disasters pervade the certainty of social life. In a globalized world this truism increasingly calls for transnational solutions to prevent, prepare, and respond to these deadly disruptions. Regional Disaster Risk Management (DRM) has recently emerged to meet this concern. READ MORE