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The relation between modeled and perceived accessibility
(2024-11-12)This thesis investigates the relationship between modeled and perceived accessibility across different activities and transport modes. Accessibility is important for people’s daily lives as it enables them to reach and ... -
Reweaving the fabric of corporate bureaucracy -The development of organisational control in Sweden 1970-2000
(2024-10-17)This thesis in economic history investigates and analyses how Swedish industrial enterprises changed and developed their corporate bureaucracy and organisational control to become less hierarchical and more flexible and ... -
On IPBES´ framing of the values of nature
(Avdelningen för kulturgeografi, 2024)The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), is highly influential when it comes to setting the global agenda for addressing the nature crisis. In the work of IPBES, significant ... -
Technological change, skills, and occupational structure in Sweden, 1870-1950
(2024-05-21)This dissertation explores occupations and skills in the Swedish labor markets during the industrial breakthrough. It encompasses an introduction and four research papers, each addressing issues related to how technological ... -
Disentangling Empire and Decolonization: State and Business Relations in Southern Africa, 1923-1975
(2024-05-06)This dissertation comprises of an introduction and four research articles that study state and business relations in Southern Africa. The core interest is to present and analyse the identification and management of political ... -
The Quest for Bureaucratic Efficiency - Sweden’s Rise and Fall as an Empire
(2024-04)The prevailing literature on global state capacity suggests that: 1) Europe was pulling ahead of other regions in the early modern period, and 2) state capacity in this period was mostly dedicated to the purposes of ... -
Beyond the private car: Managing sustainable mobility in everyday life
(2024-04-19)It is increasingly recognized that private car use needs to be reduced, alongside spatial planning solutions and vehicle development, to realize a sustainable mobility transition. But the fact that the organisation of ... -
Over-design and under-funding: A theory of park (re)development in Gothenburg
(2024-04-19)Urban parks are commonly seen as the panacea for multiple of urban issues. From migrant integration to climate change, urban agriculture to wellbeing, biodiversity to obesity, urban parks are touted as the answer. The ... -
Skill Premium in Sweden, 1900–1950
(2024-04)This paper documents the evolution of wage differentials between skilled and unskilled workers in Sweden throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Using newly digitized data on income taxes, this paper demonstrates ... -
Did industrialization improve the skill composition of the population? Evidence from Sweden, 1870 to 1930
(2024-03)This paper documents the changing skill composition during industrialization in Sweden using population censuses and HISCO/HISCLASS scheme. The results reveal a general shift from unskilled to more-skilled occupations, ... -
Floods Vulnerability and the Quest for Resilience - Urban Planning and Development Challenges in Matola, Mozambique
(2024-03-18)Increased flood occurrence due to heavy rainfall associated with cyclones is recognized worldwide. Urban environments in developing countries, such as Matola in Mozambique, suffer greatly from the negative impacts of floods, ... -
Slavery, Resistance and Repression: A Quantitative Empirical Investigation
(2024-03)In this article, we study what individual and social characteristics made it more likely for an individual to resist slavery. We employ a unique census from the Caribbean island of St. Croix in 1846, which allows us to ... -
Thriving in a declining economy - Elite persistence in the West Indies, 1760-1914
(2024-03)The issue of how elites as a social group come to be, how they maintain their position and how they affect the society they come to control is very much at the centre of the inequality debate. The present paper studies ... -
Numeracy and the legacy of slavery Age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s-1880s
(2024-02)In many slave societies, enslaved persons were barred from acquiring much education. What skills the enslaved persons nonetheless were able to acquire, and how this changed following emancipation, is not well known. We ... -
The persistence of wealth Economic inequality in a Caribbean slave colony in the very long run
(2024-02)It has been proposed that slave societies were the most unequal societies in recorded human history. What little evidence there is shows an ambiguous picture. We contribute with a study on the wealth distribution in a ... -
Engineering lmpact: Analyzing the Scientific and Technological Outcomes of Collaborative Research between Universities and Firms
(2024-02-29)This Ph.D. dissertation analyzes collaborative research between universities and firms in the field of electrical engineering in Sweden. It conceptualizes such collaborations as one form of academic engagement that fosters ... -
Occupational structure in a black settler colony: Sierra Leone in 1831
(2024-01)Occupational structure is a valuable proxy for economic development when more direct indicators are lacking. This study employs occupational structure for the Colony of Sierra Leone in 1831 with the aim of contributing ... -
The failed promise of freedom: Emancipation and wealth inequality in the Caribbean
(2024-01)Was there any redistribution of resources in the Caribbean societies after emancipation from slavery? What were ex-slaves’ prospects to improve their socioeconomic status after emancipation? To shed some light on these ... -
Teachers in the marketisation of education
(2023-10-26)In many parts of the world, marketisation processes in welfare sectors like education are mobilised and legitimised through a discourse professing how market competition will bring about accountability, ... -
Exploring the internalization of University-lndustry Collaboration and firm innovation: an analysis of influential roles, problem, and implementation paths
(2023-10-17)The phenomenon studied here is how cooperatively developed knowledge, resulting from knowledge-related interaction in a university–industry collaboration (UIC), is internally utilized by a firm. The purpose of this research ...
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