Search for dissertations about: "marriage"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 120 swedish dissertations containing the word marriage.
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1. Reconstructing Marriage in a Changing Legal and Societal Landscape : Challenges of New Cohabitation Models in Sweden
Abstract : What is marriage? From a legal point of view, marriage is a contract which establishes a civil status. However, marriage is no ordinary contract. There is also a symbolic dimension to marriage, which cannot easily be understood from a strictly legal perspective. READ MORE
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2. Marriage, money and migration
Abstract : The thesis consists of a summary and four self-contained papers.Paper [I] examines the effects of interregional migration on gross earnings in married and cohabiting couples. In particular, we examine the link between education level and income gains. READ MORE
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3. An Economic Analysis of Marriage and Divorce
Abstract : The first chapter develops a theoretical model of marriage and divorce. The model has two periods and assumes Pareto efficient time allocations. There is a risk of divorce in the second period, which is modeled as exogenously given. READ MORE
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4. Negotiating Imperial Rule : Colonists and Marriage in the Nineteenth-century Black Sea Steppe
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
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5. Demographic Journeys along the Silk Road : Marriage, Childbearing, and Migration in Kyrgyzstan
Abstract : This thesis contributes to the limited demographic literature on Central Asia – the region through which led the great Silk Road – an ancient route of trade and cultural exchange between East and West. We focus on Kyrgyzstan and countries in its immediate neighborhood: Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. READ MORE