Search for dissertations about: "women s mobility"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the words women s mobility.
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1. Watching women, falling women : Power and dialogue in three novels by Margaret Atwood
Abstract : This study examines the three novelsCat s Eye, The Robber Bride, and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. It focuses on the female characters and their relationships to each other: Their friendships are formed in a patriarchally structured environment and are therefore arenas for defending and controlling the norms of such a structure. READ MORE
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2. Essays on Home Production, Mobility, and Monetary Policy
Abstract : The Allocation of Expenditures and Time over TimeIn the year 2018, the average high skilled single male worked more than 35 hours per week in the market and allocated more than 70 percent of expenditures to services. In the same year, the average low skilled female worked 22 hours per week in the market and allocated around 65 percent of expenditures to services. READ MORE
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3. Borders and Barriers : Studies on Migration and Integration in the Nordic and Mexico-U.S. Settings
Abstract : International migration engages large numbers of people. Men, women and children break up from their homes and move to another country temporarily or permanently. READ MORE
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4. Feeling Across Distance : Transnational Migration, Emotions, and Family Life Between Bolivia and Spain
Abstract : What are the relational dynamics of family life as it is lived across vast distances and over time? What underpins these relations, practices, and experiences of being apart and yet together? Based on a long-term multi-sited fieldwork carried out in Spain and Bolivia from 2013 to 2015, this study sets out to address these questions by investigating caring practices, mediated connections, (non)material exchanges, and lived experiences of “doing” and “feeling” family across borders. It conveys the story of ten families divided between Madrid and the Bolivian urban areas of Cochabamba, Sucre, and Santa Cruz de la Sierra. READ MORE
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5. Essays in Empirical Labour Economics : Family Background, Gender and Earnings
Abstract : All three essays in this thesis are concerned with the interrelation of family, gender and labour market outcomes. The first paper investigates family earnings mobility between parents and sons, and parents and daughters, highlighting the role of assortative mating. The results suggest that daughters are more mobile than sons. READ MORE