Search for dissertations about: "youth employment"

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2. 21. Evaluating Social Programs: Active Labor Market Policies and Social Insurance

   Author : Laura Larsson; Jeffrey Smith; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi; nationalekonomi; Economics;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays.Essay I evaluates two Swedish active labor market programs for youth during the early 1990s, namely youth practice and labor market training. A non-parametric matching approach is applied to estimate the average program effects. READ MORE

4. 22. Natural and Classical Experiments in Swedish Labour Market Policy

   Author : Pathric Hägglund; Anders Björklund; Anders Forslund; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Labour market research; Arbetsmarknadsforskning;

   Abstract : "Effects of Changes in the Unemployment Insurance Eligibility Requirements on Job Duration — Swedish Evidence" This paper investigates the impact of the unemployment insurance (UI) entrance requirement on employment duration among earlier unemployed in Sweden. I exploit changes in the rule taking place in 1994 and 1997 to study behavioural adjustments in the timing of job separation between 1992, 1996, and 1998. READ MORE

5. 23. Workers, Firms and Welfare : Four Essays in Economics

   Author : Niklas Kaunitz; Markus Jäntti; Matthew Lindquist; Erik Lindqvist; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; payroll taxes; unemployment; labor demand; firm performance; subjective well-being; cash margin; aggregation; utilitarianism; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : This thesis comprises four chapters, in two parts. The first part examines the result of a Swedish payroll tax reduction; first from the perspective of the worker, then from that of the employer. The second half of the thesis concerns subjective well-being, both from an individual and from an aggregate viewpoint. READ MORE

6. 24. Yesterday once more? Unemployment and health inequalities across the life course in northern Sweden

   Author : Anna Brydsten; Miguel San Sebastian; Anne Hammarström; Mattias Strandh; Per-Olof Östergren; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; unemployment; life course; long-term health consequences; health inequity; national unemployment rates; neighbourhood unemployment rates; northern Sweden; arbetslöshet; livslopp; långsiktiga hälsokonsekvenser; ojämlikhet i hälsa; nationella arbetslöshet; arbetslöshet i bostadsområdet; norra Sverige; folkhälsa; Public health; Epidemiology; epidemiologi; socialmedicin; Social Medicine;

   Abstract : AbstractBackground. It is relatively well established in previous research that unemployment has direct health consequences in terms of mental and physical ill health. Recently, knowledge has emerged indicating that unemployment can lead to economic consequences that remain long after re-establishment in the labour market. READ MORE

7. 25. Favela Funk – Ways of Being Young in the Urban Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro

   Author : Hannah Pollack Sarnecki; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Favela funk; Brazil; violence; sexuality; sovereignty; gangs factions; security; power; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

   Abstract : During the last decades, funk music produced in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro has been travelling the world as a genre of contemporary cool. Construed as both hip and authentic and consumed globally, it has become a political and commercial asset in the nation’s rise to economic dominance and in Rio’s campaign to become a global city. READ MORE