Search for dissertations about: "ethnic minority"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 61 swedish dissertations containing the words ethnic minority.

  2. 16. Inequalities in health : social, biological, ethnic and life-course perspectives

    Author : Amal R Khanolkar; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : There is an unmistakable consistency in differences in risks for morbidity and mortality between social groups. The more advantaged, whether measured in terms of income, education, class, status or ethnicity in general fare better when compared to others, emphasizing the importance of the social environment in determining health in all stages of life. READ MORE

  4. 17. Empirical Essays on Wage Setting and Immigrant Labor Market Opportunities

    Author : Tove Eliasson; Oskar Nordström Skans; Per-Anders Edin; Tor Eriksson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Firm sorting; mobility; wage assimilation; host country specific human capital; employer learning; self-employment; immigrant entrepreneurs; capital access; information asymmetry; minority representation; collective bargaining; turnover; hours of work; labor input; labor costs; Nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays.Essay 1: This essay estimates wage assimilation among non-western immigrants in Sweden, controlling for selection into employment by including individual fixed effects. READ MORE

  5. 18. Local Social Exposure and Inter-Neighborhood Mobility

    Author : Alex Giménez de La Prada; Peter Hedström; Eduardo Tapia; Petri Ylikoski; Gianluca Manzo; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ethnic segregation; residential mobility; social interdependency;

    Abstract : Studies on ethnic residential segregation analyze how the inter-neighborhood mobility of individuals shapes their spatial distribution across cities. This literature has shown that the residential choices of households partly depend on the ethnic composition of their neighborhoods: higher in-group shares promote the presence of more in-group members, and vice versa. READ MORE

  6. 19. Studies in the Dynamics of Residential Segregation

    Author : Åsa Bråmå; Roger Andersson; Urban Fransson; Terje Wessel; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic geography; residential segregation; segregation processes; selective migration; distressed neighbourhoods; minority enclaves; Sweden; Kulturgeografi; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : In four scientific papers, this thesis investigates the processes, in terms of movements of individuals, that have produced, reproduced and transformed patterns of residential segregation in Swedish cities between 1990 and 2000.Paper 1 examines processes of immigrant concentration, and the role of the Swedish majority population in these processes. READ MORE

  7. 20. Negotiating who the ’Other’ is : Care providers talk about caring for dying patients with migrant backgrounds

    Author : Pernilla Ågård; Sandra Torres; Hannah Bradby; Jonas Stier; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Professional care providers; patients with migrant backgrounds; end-of-life care; understandings; negotiations; talk; categorization; ethnic Otherness ; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : Most research at the intersection of ethno-cultural minority patients and end-of-life care has been preoccupied with two types of problems: the underrepresentation of patients with an ethno-cultural minority background in end-of-life care and the challenges that these patients are believed to pose to the deliverance of high-quality and user-friendly care. When scholars have focused on these issues, they have tended to assume that it is ethno-cultural diversity as such that poses these problems. READ MORE