Search for dissertations about: "household migration"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the words household migration.

  2. 6. Essays on Development and Experimental Economics: Migration, Discrimination and Positional Concerns

    Author : Lisa Andersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; class; discrimination; Ethiopia; ethnicity; experiment; fixed effects; field experiment; housing market; gender; income comparison; migration; panel data; private inter-household transfers; propensity score matching; reference groups; remittances; subjective well-being;

    Abstract : Paper 1: A Field Experiment of Discrimination in the Norwegian Housing Market: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity We test for gender, class, and ethnic discrimination in the Norwegian rental housing market using fake application letters. Females, individuals with high job status, and ethnic Norwegians are more likely to receive positive responses. READ MORE

  4. 7. Leaving Home in a Peasant Society. Economic Fluctuations, Household Dynamics and Youth Migration in Southern Sweden, 1829-1866

    Author : Martin Dribe; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic history; historical demography; economic stress; migration; family strategy; longitudinal analysis; leaving home; event-history analysis; Ekonomisk och social historia;

    Abstract : This study deals with the process of children leaving home and its interactions with the household economy in preindustrial society. A theoretical model of leaving home is outlined and then analyzed multivariately, using a longitudinal micro-level dataset for a sample of parishes in western Scania, Sweden, for the period 1829-1866. READ MORE

  5. 8. Negotiating Imperial Rule : Colonists and Marriage in the Nineteenth-century Black Sea Steppe

    Author : Julia Malitska; Per Bolin; Mark Bassin; Ulla Rosén; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Colonization; imperialism; imperial borderlands; German colonists; migration; marriage regime; agency; marriage; household formation; Ukraine; Black Sea steppe; Russian empire; nineteenth century; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : After falling under the power of the Russian Crown, the Northern Black Sea steppe from the end of eighteenth century crystallized as the Russian government’s prime venue for socioeconomic and sociocultural reinvention and colonization. Vast ethnic, sociocultural and even ecological changes followed. READ MORE

  6. 9. Homelands Lost and Gained : Slavic Migration and Settlement on Bornholm in the Early Middle Ages

    Author : Magdalena Naum; Historisk arkeologi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; migration; historical archaeology; Bornholm; Western Slavs; everyday; ritual practice; body; identity construction; memory; agency; phenomenology; practice theory;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis examines early medieval Slavic migration to the island of Bornholm (Denmark). With a combination of interdisciplinary theories and approaches, which focus on human translocation and memory and identity construction, a holistic approach to the studies of migration in archaeology is proposed. READ MORE

  7. 10. “No Friends but the Mountains” Understanding Population Mobility and Land Dynamics in Iraqi Kurdistan

    Author : Lina Eklund; Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; migration; drought; Iraqi Kurdistan; agriculture; land; scale;

    Abstract : The link between population mobility and environmental change is fundamental for our understanding of how future global environmental changes will affect our societies, and also how the increased mobility will change our role in the Earth system. Climate change has been predicted as a major cause of human migration, both voluntary and forced, through for example increased storm and drought frequency, sea level rise, and reduced fresh water availability. READ MORE