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En industriell reservarmé i välfärdsstaten - Arbetslösa socialhjälpstagare i Sverige 1913-2012
(2015-05-08)
This economic history dissertation explores a central contradiction within the Swedish welfare state, the contradiction of the welfare state’s goal to decommodify its citizens from market fluctuations and the constant need ...
Ports, dock workers and labour market conflicts
(2014-12-02)
ABSTRACT
Ports, dock workers and labour market conflicts
Gothenburg Studies in Economic History 12 (2014)
ISBN : 978-91-86217-11-2
http://hdl.handle.net/2077/37421
Author: Jesper Hamark
Doctoral Dissertation in ...
Exploring Knowledge Intensity in Entrepreneurship: A Quantitative Study of Knowledge, Innovation and Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms
(2017-03-29)
This Ph.D. dissertation investigates the statistical and theoretical relationships between different dimensions of knowledge intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) in Europe and how knowledge intensity and performance in ...
Jordbruksmark i förändring. Drivkrafter bakom och förutsättningar för offentlig styrning i Sverige och Norge
(2014-10-09)
With a focus on agricultural land use change, the overriding aim of this thesis is to contribute to the development of a more sustainable use and management of resources. A core requirement for doing so is to develop deeper ...
Nothing New under the Sun: Essays on the Economic History of Intellectual Property Rights in Music
(2013-04-30)
This thesis consists of an introductory chapter, five separate articles and an article in Swedish which functions as summary. The introductory chapter provides a general
background to the economic history of intellectual ...
På väg mot jämställda arbetsresor? : Vardagens mobilitet i förändring och förhandling
(2013-09-24)
In Swedish regional policy, regional enlargement, i.e. geographically extended labour markets and associated longer commuting distances, is an explicit goal. This is in order to stimulate economic growth and better match ...
Rural/urban redux: Conceptual problems and material effects
(2017-11-20)
Concepts are the basic building blocks of all knowledge, while the strength of the theories that guide any societal project is dependent on the quality those concepts. Contrarily, the utilization of questionable concepts ...
A Black Utopia? Social Stratification in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Sierra Leone
(2019-03-20)
In the present dissertation, social stratification in colonial Sierra Leone is discussed, with the aim of providing novel evidence on the association between ideals, institutions and inequality. The case study of Sierra ...
Essays on trade unions and functional income distribution
(2013-05-27)
This dissertation consists of four research papers and an introduction. The overarching theme for the four papers is the relationship between employers and employees in the labour market, or in more macroeconomic terms the ...
Development constrained – Essays on land as a factor in nineteenth-century industrialization and trade
(2018-05-18)
This dissertation consists of an introductory chapter, four research essays and one essay that describes the collected dataset. The first essay examines how the balance of land embodied in British trade developed during ...