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The association between psychosocial work conditions, unemployment, and generalized trust was investigated. The health survey in Skane is a cross-sectional postal questionnaire study with a 59% participation rate. A total of 5,180 persons that belonged to the work force and the unemployed were included. Logistic regression models were used to investigate the associations between psychosocial facto

The cross-disciplinary field of materials science emerged and grew to prominence in the second half of the twentieth century, drawing theoretical and experimental strength from the rapid progress in several natural sciences disciplines and connecting to many industrial applications. In this article, we chronicle and analyze how materials science established itself in Swedish universities in the 19

The collection of medieval Scanian church art at the Historical museum of Lund is unique as to both quantity and quality. Here, nearly a third of the churches in the province are represented and the wood sculpture encompasses everything from works by local artists to celebrated masters from the continent. On the second floor of the museum the visitor can see most and the best of it in a nearly tim

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att få kunskap om den individuella lönesättningen inom en offentlig verksamhet. Min avsikt är att undersöka och få förståelse för lärarnas upplevelser av den individuella lönesättningen inom en offentlig verksamhet. Uppsatsen undersöker den individuella lönesättningen ur ett kritiskt perspektiv och jag vill därmed få kunskap och förståelse om eventuella följder av dThe purpose of this paper is to gain knowledge of the individual salaries within the public sector. My intention is to explore and gain understanding teachers' experiences of the individual salaries within the public sector. The essay examines the individual salaries from a critical perspective, and I would thus gain knowledge of the possible consequences of this system. The thesis is a qualit

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the relation between resilience as a discourse and governmentality. Drawing on theory by Foucault, a comparison and application of liberal governmentality will be made with contemporary resilience policy. The DFID, a global leader in resilience-building, will serve as a case to show in what ways power-relations are embedded within the organisation’s di

This study examines possible causal relationship between investments in research and development (R&D) and economic growth of the European Union (EU) regions using R&D per capita as a measure of innovation. Given the importance the EU policies have put on innovation in creating better economic outlook, questions whether investments in R&D are growth enhancing and efficient in promoting

UBER är ett globalt företag som växer snabbt. UBER har skapat en applikation som gör det möjligt att, via applikationen, beställa en taxiresa från en person som kör sin egen bil. Enligt UBER är det dock inget transportföretag, utan istället en teknologiplattform. Detta nya fenomen, där företag möjliggör tillgång till andra personers ägodelar, kallas för delningsekonomi. För att bli en UBER-förare UBER is a worldwide company growing rapidly. It has invented an application that makes it possible to request a ride from a driver which drives their own car. According to UBER, it is not a transport company but instead a technology platform. Moreover, this new phenomenon, whereby companies are enabling access for consumers to property owned by other consumers, is called sharing economy. In order

Utifrån Glasers definition av Grounded Theory sätts filmen The Interview (Columbia Pictures, 2014) i en politisk kontext. Digitala artiklar från Nordkorea samt USA som behandlar The Interview kodas och den öppna kodningen gör att en frågeställning skapas: Vilket synsätt har respektive land på filmen som ett politiskt fenomen? Den selektiva fasen kategoriserar de punkter som har störst verkan på po

I analyze the effect of a large exogenous trade shock on mortality in the United States between 2002 and 2012. Following the example of Autor, Dorn, and Hanson (2013), I construct a variable that captures the difference in exposure to import competition stemming from differences in initial manufacturing employment structures. I avoid endogeneity issues by instrumenting US commuting zones’ exposure

This thesis researches the Swedish conservative intellectual magazine Svensk Tidskrift and their view on Russia, between the years of 1915–1919. It further examines how the view changes over the years. The research also analyses the view on Russia in Svensk Tidskrift from a perspective of center-periphery. Sweden and Russia have a long relationship that goes way back to several centuries before, a

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate if there is a difference in the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth depending on whether the FDI comes from China or the Western world. This study investigates the effect of FDI on economic growth in 44 African countries from 2003 to 2017, based on panel data. According to growth theory, an increase in investments leads to an in