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The Damage Done - Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence and their Mothers: Towards empirically based interventions in order to reduce negative health effects in children
(2012-09-17)Violence in intimate relationships occurs in all societies, and intimate partner violence (IPV) is a prevalent and serious social problem. Mothers of young children are particularly often victims of IPV, the consequences ... -
The Danish Guidelines on Intellectual Capital Reporting Towards A European Perspective on Human Resource Disclosures?
(2004)Currently, many academics assert that although several companies proclaim their employees as the company’s most valuable resource only a few companies have utilised models and concepts of measuring human resources in their ... -
The Dark Side of Wage Indexed Pensions
(2005)This paper investigates some welfare effects of forced saving through a mandatory pension scheme. The framework for the analysis is a life-cycle model of a borrowing constrained individual´s consumption and portfolio choice ... -
The Deadweight Loss of Christmas Revisited
(2021-08-04)The aim of this paper is to investigate if there is a deadweight loss, (DWL), or gain to society elicited from the gift-exchange during the Christmas holiday in Sweden in 2020. This is done by partly replicating the ... -
The Debate on Whether the Repo Rate Should Be Affected by the Household Debt
(2014-03-20)According to the Sveriges Riksbank Act, the Riksbank should aim for an inflation target of 2 per cent, but at the same time foster a stable payment system. The low inflation in Sweden in the last few years has led to a ... -
The decision-making process of hiring temporary employees
(2011-06-14)Background and problem discussion The temporary employment industry has grown extensively during the past two decades since the market was deregulated. Companies today need to be flexible to meet fluctuating demand and ... -
The Decision-Making Process of Swedish Born Global Video Game Developers – Effectuation and Causation
(2014-08-12)The increasing globalisation of the modern world has made it possible for companies to internationalise far more rapidly than before (Andersson & Wictor, 2003) The term Born Global is an example of companies that are ... -
The Decline of Class Voting in Sweden 1968–2014: Reconsiderations, Explanations and the Role of the New Middle Class
(2019-05-13)Class voting has been one of the most wide-spread and persistent patterns of voting behavior in Western democracies throughout the 20th century. Understanding its decline is an important part of understanding the current ... -
THE DECONSTRUCTED HERO A Studyof Heroism in Suzanne Collins´ NovelTrilogyThe Hunger Games
(2015-10-20)The thesis aims to study how contemporary literature challenges the traditional role of the hero, by exploring the character functions of Peeta, Katniss and Galein The Hunger Games trilogy. Their functionspresent a variety ... -
The Defense Industry; Controversial but Profitable
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The Degree of Overconfidence - Examining finance and non-finance oriented business students
(2014-07-23)We examine the degree of overconfidence among finance and non-finance oriented business students, taking into account all the three overconfidence types; overprecision, overestimation and overplacement. We first investigate ... -
The Demand for Intercity Public Transport: The Case of Business Passengers
(1999)Using a stated preference survey on business passengers travelling with rail or air between the two largest cities in Sweden, we investigate business passengers' preferences for different modes of transport and their ... -
The democratic ideals among the Palestinian journalists
(2011-10-07)Title: The democratic ideals among the Palestinian journalists Number of pages: 72+4 (appendix) Author: Mats Tiborn Tutor: Jenny Wiik Course: Master essay, Media and Communication Period: Spring 2011 University: Dept. ... -
The demographic crisis in Europe – “Immigrants, welcome!” - A quantitative study of fertility and migrations rates in 27 European states 1997 and 2017
(2020-06-30)The present study examines whether the demographic components fertility and migration are related among 27 European countries. From the 1970s fertility levels have decreased and the life expectancy has risen, which has led ... -
The Demographic Objection and the Limits of Competence
(2024-02-23)Epistocrats argue that political power should be distributed according to competence. Under universal suffrage the electorate at any given election will be comprised of both competent and incompetent voters due to varying ... -
THE DESIGN OF A MOBILE APP TO PROMOTE YOUNG PEOPLE’S DIGITAL FINANCIAL LITERACY
(2020-12-08)Purpose: With the popularity of Digital Financial Services (DFS), Digital Financial Literacy learning has been positioned as an essential ingredient for filling in people’s knowledge gaps and achieving their lifelong ... -
The design research text and the poetics of foundational definitions
(University of Gothenburg. Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, 2010)