Search for dissertations about: "labour exchange"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the words labour exchange.

  2. 1. The Bias of the World : Theories of Unequal Exchange in History

    Author : John Brolin; Humanekologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; History and philosophy of the social sciences; Contemporary history since 1914 ; Ecology; political ecology; ecological footprint; emergy; underconsumptionism; post-Keynesian; unlimited supplies of labour; Prebisch-Singer; centre-periphery; terms of trade; staple thesis; ecologial economics; Marxist economics; classical economics; history of political economy; mercantilism; non-equvalent exchange; unequal exchange; Economics; econometrics; economic theory; economic systems; economic policy; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; ekonomisk teori; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik; Nutidshistoria från 1914 ; Ekologi; Samhällsvetenskapernas historia och filosofi;

    Abstract : This is a history of theories and theorists of unequal exchange. Starting with mercantilists and Richard Cantillon's theory based on land values, it briefly covers the early Classical economists and Gerald Fitzhugh. READ MORE

  4. 2. Foreign Direct Investment by Large Swedish Firms - the Role of Economic Integration and Exchange Rates

    Author : Johan Ekström; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social sciences; Eclectic Paradigm; Strategic Objective; Exchange Rates; FDI; Economic Integration;

    Abstract : Two important features of the global economy in the last few decades have been the increasing degree of regional economic integration and the increasing volatility of real exchange rates. Due to the EU membership and the single European currency, issues related to regional economic integration and exchange rate changes hold prominence on the business and political agenda in Sweden. READ MORE

  5. 3. Gift and Exchange in the Reciprocal Regime of the Miskito on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, 20th Century

    Author : Christopher Kindblad; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; analogic code; digital code; tragedy of the commons; egalitarian norms; entrepreneurship; symbolic transformations; long-term gift; short-term exchange; reciprocal regime; Tasbapauni; Nicaragua; Miskito; paradox; Sociology; Social and economic history; Sociologi; Ekonomisk och social historia; Miskito; Social anthropology ethnography;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a historical-comparative analysis of a conflict that has developed in the economic system of the Miskito in the 20th century, concerning the use of common property resources. The study is based on empirical material collected in a Miskito/Creole village on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua in the 1990s. READ MORE

  6. 4. Thai Surrogate Mothers’ Experiences of Transnational Commercial Surrogacy : Navigating Local Morality and Global Markets

    Author : Elina Nilsson; Helena Wahlström Henriksson; Jenny Björklund; Sharmila Rudrappa; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; transnational commercial surrogacy; intimate labour; motherhood; gender; Thailand; precarity; local moral economies; kinship; family; merit making; assisted reproduction; bioavailability; Genusvetenskap; Gender Studies;

    Abstract : Transnational commercial surrogacy is an arrangement where a woman gestates and delivers a child for intended parents from another country in exchange for money. This thesis explores the experiences of women who have acted as surrogate mothers in Thailand. READ MORE

  7. 5. Real Effects of Monetary Regimes

    Author : Anna Larsson; Lars Calmfors; Alberto Dalmazzo; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Monetary Regimes; Unions; Fiscal Policy; Inflation Targeting; Real Exchange Rate; Wage Setting; Unemployment; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of three essays on the real effects of monetary regimes.“Monetary Regimes, Labour Mobility and Equilibrium Employment” analyses the impact of the monetary regime on labour markets in a small open economy by considering the game between large wage setters and the central bank in a model with labour mobility between sectors. READ MORE