Essays about: "human capital and economic"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 285 essays containing the words human capital and economic.
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21. Environmental Leapfrogging in Kenya: The Role of Human Capital, Wealth and Institutions for the Adoption of Solar Energy
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : While developing countries are faced with pressing socio-economic challenges, they are also increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of environmental degradation. Starting from this double challenge, current research has been focusing on the synergies between economic development and environmental protection. READ MORE
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22. Female Migrants in Search of Jobs: The Role of Social Capital in Labor Market Integration
University essay from Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : The labor market integration of immigrants in general, and female migrants in particular, remains a central developmental objective for counteracting inequalities within societies across Europe. Previous studies put forth the concept of social capital, the resources linked to an individual's network of social connections, to explain immigrants’ diverging labor market trajectories. READ MORE
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23. Non-fungible tokens: tracing shifts in the art market
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledningAbstract : Given the advent and market boom of NFTs, this thesis concerns itself with observing how NFTs are shifting the art market, and how those shifts can be explained, as the two seemingly disparate markets have different actors, processes and characteristics. In order to answer these questions the thesis takes an abductive case study design and employs an actor-network theory (ANT) approach to observe shifts in the markets by both human and non-human actors. READ MORE
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24. Education for refugee children : A case study on UNHCR´s strategy
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : The subject being studied is education for refugee children. Today, there are many children that are not allowed, or have the possibility to go to school and get an education which is a failure towards children's development in relation to human rights. READ MORE
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25. God, homeland, and those who had the right to neither: An overview of private property laws and human capital accumulation during dictatorial colonial rule in Angola
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Human Capital is deemed as an imperative factor for economic growth, however, it is argued the extent of this interrelation. Acemoglu, Gallego and Robinson (2014) claim that the institutional framework of a nation, in specificthose of private property are deemed as pivotal for a nation’s development. READ MORE
