Search for dissertations about: "salary"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the word salary.

  2. 1. Why Women Ask for Less Salary than Men : Mediation of Stereotype Threat in Salary Negotiations

    Author : Una Tellhed; Institutionen för psykologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; salary negotiations; stereotype threat; gender stereotypes; mediation; self-stereotyping; motivation; outcome goals; regulatory focus; självstereotypering; mediering; könsstereotyper; löneförhandling; stereotyphot;

    Abstract : Women ask for less salary than men in negotiations. Sex differences in negotiating performance have recently been explained as stereotype threat effects. Stereotype threat theory states that the performance of negatively stereotyped group-members can suffer in contexts where the negative stereotype is salient. READ MORE

  4. 2. Salary determination in professional labour markets

    Author : Maria Hemström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi; nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of three essays on salary determination in professional labour markets.Essay I analyses the early labour market careers of young business administrators and economists. The data used were collected by means of a survey conducted in 1992. READ MORE

  5. 3. Schooling, work experience and earnings : a study of determinants of earnings in a Third World corporate setting

    Author : Roland Duberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Comparative education; Causal analysis; Determinants of earnings; Developing nations; Earnings functions; LAMCO; Liberia; Macroeconomic theories; Path analysis; Salary wage differentials;

    Abstract : The aim of the study is: (1) to investigate determinants of earnings in a Third World corporate setting; (2) to estimate the relative importance of these determinants; (3) to compare the determinants between different sectors; and (4) to provide some evidence concerning the validity of a number of economic theories. A Third World country (Liberia) and a corporate setting (LAMCO) are described. READ MORE

  6. 4. Essays on the Supply and Demand for Auditing Service

    Author : Ting Dong; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : The market for auditing service is shaped by the demand side and supply side forces. For audit firms and the overall profession, human capital is the most important asset because auditing service is delivered by auditors. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Greatest Scam: Network Marketing and the Economization of Everyday Life in the United States

    Author : Mathias Kristiansen; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Neoliberalism; economization; independent contracting; economic anthropology; capitalism; The United States; network marketing;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how neoliberalism has penetrated the everyday life of middle-class Americans, leading to new forms of living and new collective understandings of the capitalist economic order. In order to understand how neoliberalism has penetrated the everyday life of middle-class Americans, I conducted one year of ethnographic fieldwork among people participating in network marketing, a form of sales that also includes the recruitment of additional salespeople – what is known as building a network. READ MORE