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Showing result 11 - 15 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the words youth employment.

2. 11. Carving out collective spaces : Exploring the complexities of gender and everyday stressors within rural youth leisure

   Author : Anne Gotfredsen; Evelina Landstedt; Isabel Goicolea; Sanna Aaltonen; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Youth mental health; stressors; leisure participation; gender; femininities; rurality; precarity; space and place; visual methods; ethnography; Public health; folkhälsa; genusvetenskap; gender studies;

   Abstract : Background: The reasons why young people are increasingly suffering frommental health problems, and the opportunities to turn this development aroundare globally debated. Stressors such as education, relationships, futuretrajectories of housing and employment all constitute important factors affectingyoung people’s mental health, leading to stress and achievement pressureespecially among girls and young women. READ MORE

4. 12. Attitudes towards starting small business : youth and local authorities in a changing labour market?

   Author : Sara Cervantes; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Industrial Work Environment; Industriell produktionsmiljö;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to examine the extent to which a local authority can change the attitudes of its youth, away from public sector employment to the development of small business, through education. Traditionally the region of Norrbotten has favoured the public sector. READ MORE

5. 13. Unseen job creators and firm growth barriers : the role of capital constraints and seniority rules

   Author : Anders Bornhäll; Sven-Olov Daunfeldt; Niklas Rudholm; Dan Johansson; Marc Cowling; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Firm growth; growth barriers; employment protection; institutions; capital constraints; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Complex Systems – Microdata Analysis;

   Abstract : The topic of this thesis is to provide a deeper understanding of how the institutional framework affects firms’ hiring decisions.The first article focuses on a group of firms, called sleeping gazelles, that do not grow despite having high profits. READ MORE

6. 14. Essays on Immigrants' Economic Integration

   Author : Kerem Tezic; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Second-generation immigrants; educational attainments; early labour-market experiences; competing-risks; graduate employment; calibration; first-generation immigrants; sample-selection in panel data; random effects.;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of five papers, related to each other in terms of study-sample, study-subject or methods used. The first paper is concerned with second-generation immigrants' educational attainments, using the Longitudinal Individual Data-set (LINDA), which gave us the possibility to examine changes over time, from ages 16-17 to 21-22 and to compare second-generation immigrants with a randomly-chosen matched control-group of native Swedes. READ MORE

7. 15. Between tradition and modernity : The occupational choices of young people in rural Crete

   Author : Nikoleta Ratsika; Lennart Nygren; Theano Kallinikaki; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; rural youth; occupational choice; tradition; modernity;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to investigate the occupational orientations and choices of young people in rural Crete, a society, which is in constant change as it finds itself caught between tradition and modernity. To achieve this, the study looks into two cases: the case of Anogia, a small mountainous cattle-raising village, and the case of Archanes, which is a farming village on a plain. READ MORE