Search for dissertations about: "professional monopoly"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words professional monopoly.
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1. Förskollärarkårens professionaliseringssträvanden 1960 – 2005 ur ett fackligt perspektiv
Abstract : The overall point of the study is to describe and understand the endeavours of the pre-school teachers’ trade union to establish professionalism within this field of work, from the end of the 1960s to 2005. In order to shed light on the subject the main questions asked and answered in this study were: How does the pre-school teachers’ trade union act on issues regarding the autonomy of the pre-school teaching profession? To what extent, and in what way, does the pre-school teachers’ trade union strengthen the pre-school teaching profession’s position by differentiating itself from, and/or allying itself with other professional groups? Which knowledge base is the pre-school teachers’ trade union trying to establish and how does the union act on issues concerning the pre-school teaching profession’s knowledge base? How can these endeavours be understood from a gender perspective? The study presents profession and gender theoretical perspectives. READ MORE
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2. Technology Carriers: The Role of Engineers in the Expanding Swedish Shipbuilding System
Abstract : This study analyses the process which shaped the role or function of college-trained engineers within a technological system or innovation system during the period from the start of the 20th century until the 1950s and 1960s. With a conceptual framework of sociotechnical systems and of engineers as a social group of technology carriers this process is studied in one particular system, namely the Swedish shipbuilding system. READ MORE
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3. The Liberalization Experiment : Understanding the political rationales leading to change in pharmacy policy
Abstract : In 2009, a pharmacy policy reform was introduced in Sweden whereby the state owned community pharmacy monopoly was abolished. As a result two thirds of the pharmacies were sold. As there were no longer restrictions on ownership and establishment, new pharmacies and new owners appeared. READ MORE
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4. The influence of clients on the social identities within the audit profession
Abstract : The overall purpose of the thesis is to explore the meaning of professionalism and independence for the individuals within the audit arena. Professionalism is defined as the occupational values that guide auditors’ professional behaviour, and how independence is understood is assumed to be influenced by the social groups the auditors identify with. READ MORE
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5. Wages and Their Impact on Individuals, Households and Firms
Abstract : Essay I: This paper studies how wages respond to employer concentration. It exploits a reform that deregulated the Swedish pharmacy market, which until 2009 was a monopoly. The reform involved a substantial increase in the number of employers on the pharmacy labor market. READ MORE
