Essays about: "Gary Becker"

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  1. 1. Academically skilled refugees’ experience of discrimination while integrating through the Danish and Swedish labor market

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Author : Sandra Fröberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Critical Discourse Analysis; Discrimination; Human Capital; Danishness and Swedishness; Labor Market policy; Immigration and Integration policies; Sweden; Denmark; Öresund; European Studies; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences; Cultural Sciences; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : From empirical material collected through semi-structured interviews, this master’s thesis is conducting a critical discourse analysis, investigating to what extent discoursive structures entails discriminatory treatments of academically skilled refugees in the integration process of entering the Danish and Swedish labor market. Academically skilled refugees and relevant caseworkers from both Denmark and Sweden have been interviewed to investigate individual experiences related to the integration process. READ MORE

  3. 2. Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment and Its Relationship to the Quality of the Education System: A Cross-Country Study

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : David Sandberg; Daniel Strandberg; [2018]
    Keywords : intergenerational mobility; education quality; econometrics; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The purpose of having a high-quality education system is not only to increase the human capital level of the younger population, but also a mechanism to minimize the differences between children’s chances to succeed in life. Children who come from poor backgrounds and have low educated parents will be given a possibility to succeed through a high-quality education system. READ MORE

  4. 3. The financial crisis 2008-2009 and economic gender equality in Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Ellen Böckman; [2017]
    Keywords : Sweden; gender equality; the financial crisis; taste discrimination; the division of labour; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The purpose of my thesis is to examine if the financial crisis 2008-2009 effects economic gender equality in Sweden during (2008-2009) and after (2010-2015) the crisis and if so, how. The purpose is also to analyse if the outcomes are consistent with Gary S. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Economics of Hatred - Evidence from Sweden

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Bensam Solomon; Oliver Ström; [2015]
    Keywords : Hate crime; Envy; Time allocation;

    Abstract : This study investigates if there is an association between economic conditions and hate crime incidence. By combining existing models on hate crimes in economics (Gale et al. READ MORE

  6. 5. Intergenerational Transfers of Time and Money in Scandinavian Welfare States

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Elisabeth Mastrovito; [2010]
    Keywords : Intergenerational transfers; Scandinavia; Gary Becker; Oded Stark; logit; OLS; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to study the incidence and size of financial and time transfers across generations in Scandinavia and look for any common determinants of transfer patterns. The study is based on two different theoretical models studying slightly different views on intergenerational transfer behaviour. READ MORE