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The Development of Development Economics
(2016-04)
This paper discusses the historical roots of development economics and how it has changed over the last half century. We first identify the most important changes in orientation within development economics and discuss ...
Migration as an Adaptation Strategy to Weather Variability: An Instrumental Variables Probit Analysis
(2016-06)
There is solid scientific evidence predicting that a large part of the developing world will suffer a greater incidence of extreme weather events, which may increase the incidence of displacement migration. We draw on the ...
Because of you I did not give up - How peers affect perseverance
(2016-06)
Various empirical papers have shown that peers affect productivity and behavior in the workplace. However, the mechanisms through which peers influence each other are still largely
unknown. In this laboratory experiment ...
Town by the Riverside - jazz som kulturarv i Göteborg
(Centrum för konsumtionsvetenskap, 2016-04)
Denna rapport bygger på en pilotstudie av jazzföreningen Classic Jazz Göteborg.
Studien faller inom ramen för Centrum för konsumtionsvetenskaps (CFK)
delprojekt i det tvärdisciplinära och internationella forskningsprojektet ...
Inequality Aversion and Marginal Income Taxation
(2016-10)
This paper deals with tax policy responses to inequality aversion by examining the first-best
Pareto-efficient marginal tax structure when people are inequality averse. In doing so, we
distinguish between four different ...
Re-Searching Stewardship
(2016-04-07)
Since the theory of stewardship was introduced, there have been various studies testing the constructs of stewards and stewardship. Stewardship research has largely been conducted in unrelated contexts and with a variety ...
Försvarsmakten och diskriminering – en jämförelse mellan 2010 och 2015
(Gothenburg Research Institute, 2016-01)
År 2009 instiftades en ny diskrimineringslag i Sverige. Lagen syftar till att motverka diskriminering och främja lika rättigheter och möjligheter med grund i kön, könsöverskridande identitet eller uttryck, etnisk tillhörighet, ...
The Political Economy of Mitigation and Adaptation
(2016-01)
In this paper, we acknowledge that the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change
have differential fiscal impacts. Whereas mitigation typically raises fiscal revenues, adaptation is costly to the taxpayer and to a ...
Cooperation under risk and ambiguity
(2016-12)
The return from investments in public goods is almost always uncertain, in contrast to the most common setup in the existing empirical literature. We study the impact of natural uncertainty on cooperation in a social dilemma ...
Identitet i arbete(t) – Chefers reflektioner om arbetets dimensioner
(2016-08-18)
Managers’ reflections about dimensions at work
The purpose of this thesis is to identify, describe and develop the understanding of what aspects at work are important for individuals' identity construction. In this ...