Search for dissertations about: "family"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 4163 swedish dissertations containing the word family.

  2. 21. Success at work and in family life : studies in selected Western fertility and family dynamics

    Author : Diana Corman; Elizabeth Thomson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Nativitet; Familjebildning; Invandrare; Sverige; Frankrike; 1970-talet; 1980-talet; 1990-talet; Nativity; Family structure; Immigrants; Sweden; France; demografi; Demography;

    Abstract : This thesis contains three studies that address the issues of childbearing and working life and the connection between working life and success in family life. The first two studies investigate third-birth rates in two West-European countries, based on two national surveys concerning the family and working life. READ MORE

  4. 22. Children's Living Conditions : Studies on Health, Family and School

    Author : Sara Brolin Låftman; Jan O. Jonsson; Viveca Östberg; Anne H. Gauthier; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Children; living conditions; well-being; family; health; school; Sweden; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : The present dissertation includes four empirical studies, each of which focuses on specific aspects of children’s living conditions. Study I analyses the association between young people’s social relations and health complaints using Swedish nationally representative survey data on 10- to 18-year-olds. READ MORE

  5. 23. Child Support Law in California and Sweden : a Comparison Across Welfare State Models

    Author : Elizabeth Stuart Perry; Viola Boström; Pär Hallström; Nick Wikeley; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; child support; family law; comparative law; comparative family law; Scandinavia; welfare state; California family law; Swedish family law; welfare law; financial consequences of divorce; solo parent households; sociology of the family; social democratic welfare state model; liberal welfare state model; child support reform; child support enforcement; child maintenance; United States child support; child support theory; underhåll till barn; underhållsbidrag; underhållsstöd; välfärdsmodeller; Kalifornien; amerikansk familjerätt; familjerätt; family law;

    Abstract : Ensuring just distribution of and adequate funding for children whose parents do not live together is a global legal challenge. It affects many families as well as every legal jurisdiction’s welfare state and family law. READ MORE

  6. 24. Essays on Family Dynamics : Partnering, Fertility and Divorce in Sweden

    Author : Linus Andersson; Michael Gähler; Juho Härkönen; Frida Rudolphi; Trude Lappegård; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Fertility; Divorce attitudes; Sweden; Educational Homogamy; Life Course; Family Dynamics; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : Diversity in household and family structures poses interesting questions for scientific inquiry. What accounts for patterns of reproduction, partnering, household formation and household dissolution? This dissertation investigates facets of this question in the context of modern Sweden from a longitudinal and individual level perspective. READ MORE

  7. 25. Education and the Family : Essays in Empirical Labour Economics

    Author : Helena Holmlund; Anders Björklund; Sandra Black; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; economics of education; family economics; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Estimating Long-Term Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: An Examination of the Siblings Approach In the study of the consequences of teenage motherhood, the siblings approach has been proposed as a strategy to control for unobserved family background. Revisiting this literature, my contribution in adopting the siblings approach lies in controlling for heterogeneity within the family by using pre-motherhood school performance, a characteristic that differs across sisters. READ MORE