Search for dissertations about: "contract labour"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the words contract labour.

2. 1. Protection of Accrued Pension Rights - An Inquiry into Reforms of Statutory and Occupational Pension Schemes in a German, Norwegian and Swedish Context

   Author : Nils Eliasson; Juridiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Offentlig rätt; Public law; legitimate expectations; contract; property; company pensions; occupational pensions; statutory pensions; social insurance; labour law; public law; Constitutional law; private law; Labour law; Arbetsrätt; Civil law; Civilrätt;

   Abstract : How is the conflict between a protection of accrued pension rights and economic, political and social interests in reforming the pension scheme resolved in different countries and regarding different kinds of pension schemes? What legal or political mechanisms exist to protect accrued pension rights and to resolve this conflict? This thesis takes a comprehensive view on the pension situation of the individual, thus dealing both with statutory and occupational pension schemes from a protection of accrued rights-perspective. The research provides an extensive survey of legal as well as political solutions to the protection of accrued rights and its conflict with different interests to reform the pension schemes in the respective countries under investigation as well as under the European Convention of Human Rights. READ MORE

4. 2. Improvement of Labour Performance and Productivity in Uganda´s Building Industry

   Author : Henry Mwanaki Alinaitwe; Byggproduktion; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; performance improvement; Labour productivity; building industry; Uganda;

   Abstract : Productivity of labour is particularly important especially in developing countries where most of the building work is still carried out on manual basis. Previous research has pointed out that productivity in the building industry is low and in some cases declining. READ MORE

5. 3. Where Gendered Spaces Bend : The Rubber Phenomenon in Northern Laos

   Author : Anna-Klara Lindeborg; Aida Aragao - Lagergren; Susanne Stenbacka; Jonathan Rigg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Laos; LuangNamtha; rubber; gender; HatNyao; everyday life; bend; transitions; paradoxical spaces; intersectionality; ethnography; Hmong; phenomenon; gender contract; intersectionality; border-region; division of labour; China; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi; Geography;

   Abstract : This thesis seeks to understand and explain gendered everyday life in the village of HatNyao in Northwestern Laos, specifically in relation to rubber cultivation, by using an ethnographic approach and methods. The ‘rubber boom’ is changing the landscape of Northern Laos, and in the process is reshaping gendered everyday life. READ MORE

6. 4. Contract-theoretic analyses of consultants and trade unions

   Author : Per Sonnerby; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Why can junior management consultants bill four-digit dollar amounts a day for working with corporations and industries where they have no experience? Why do blue-collar workers organise in industry-specific unions involved in collective wage bargaining, while white-collars organise according to educational or professional background, offering résumé proof-reading, or don’t unionise at all? The doctoral thesis Contract-Theoretic Analyses of Consultants and Trade Unions consists of three self-containing essays in Economics of Organisation. What Do Consultants Do? asks why firms pay large fees to outsiders in core activities like management. READ MORE

7. 5. Mobility on the labour market, work ability and sick leave

   Author : Karin Nordström; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis is to study the potential causes and effects of mobility on the labour market among individuals with reduced work ability or who experience long-term sick leave. Long-term sick leave is associated with an increased likelihood of mobility out of the labour market. READ MORE