Search for dissertations about: "thesis on women adjustment"

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2. 1. Essays on Labor Supply and Adjustment Frictions

   Author : Jósef Sigurdsson; Torsten Persson; Arash Nekoei; Peter Fredriksson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Intertemporal labor supply; Frisch elasticity; Labor supply; Adjustment frictions; Geographic mobility; Moving costs; Comparative advantage; Wage rigidity; Monetary policy; Consumption; Household debt; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in IcelandHow does labor supply respond to a temporary wage change? To answer this question, I study an unexpected and salient tax reform in Iceland in 1987 that resulted in a year free of labor income taxes, but creating only minimal income effects, offering an ideal natural experiment. I first construct a new employer-employee dataset from digitized administrative records for the population. READ MORE

4. 2. Subjective Well-Being in Swedish Women

   Author : Daiva Daukantaitė; Lars R. Bergman; Katariina Salmela-Aro; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; women; subjective well-being; longitudinal; cluster analysis; social circumstances; personality; Psychology; Psykologi;

   Abstract : The present thesis concerns middle-aged women’s subjective well-being (SWB). The interest is focused on the importance of childhood factors, social circumstances, and personality for middle-aged women’s general SWB. READ MORE

5. 3. Vitamin D In Older Women - Fractures, Frailty and Mortality

   Author : David Buchebner; Ortopedi - klinisk och molekylär osteoporosforskning; []
   Keywords : Vitamin D; Women; Fracture; Frailty; Mortality;

   Abstract : Vitamin D (25OHD) is essential for maintaining calcium homeostasis and inadequate levels have been associated with negative musculoskeletal as well as extraskeletal effects. Individuals at especially high risk of developing hypovitaminosis D are the elderly. READ MORE

6. 4. When Breast Cancer Returns. Women's experiences of Health, Illness and Adjustment During the Breast Cancer Trajectory

   Author : Elisabeth Kenne Sarenmalm; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; health; illness; adjustment; health-related quality of life; sense of coherence; distress; symptoms; recurrent breast cancer;

   Abstract : Although a recurrence of breast cancer is associated with significant distress, affecting health-related quality of life (HRQOL), little is known about women?s experience during the recurrent breast cancer trajectory. The primary aim of this thesis was to explore women?s experiences of health, illness and adjustment to a recurrence of breast cancer. READ MORE

7. 5. Household adjustment to unemployment

   Author : Sebastian Arslanogullari; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi; nationalekonomi; Economics;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of three self-contained studies on labour economics.Is the dramatic increase in the number of social assistance (SA) recipients in Sweden during the 1990s,in part, due to an increase in the propensity to receive SA? I investigate this question in essay I andfind no evidence of a general increase in the mentioned propensity although some behaviouralchanges seem to have occurred. READ MORE