Essays about: "labour economics case study"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 45 essays containing the words labour economics case study.

  1. 1. Labour Demand Composition and Wage Responses in a Transition to a Clean Economy : A Case Study on the EU ETS

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Jeroen Boksebeld; [2023]
    Keywords : Environmental Economics; EU ETS; Labour market; Sustainable Transition; Deterministic Simulation; Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the effect on labour demand of a transition from an unconstrained economy featuring a ’clean’ and a ’dirty’ production method towards a fully clean economy, using a simplified General Equilibrium model. This model is calibrated to the European Union Emission Trading System (EUETS) and features a linear decline in a cap placed on the dirty production method. READ MORE

  3. 2. Are Gender Board Quotas Effective? A Synthetic Control Method Analysis of the Italian Case.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Maria Letizia Avanzini; [2022]
    Keywords : Gender board quota; labour market; inequality.; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The lack of women in leadership positions in the corporate sector is widespread throughout Europe. In this thesis, I study the efficacy of the Italian Gender Board Quota law no. 120/2011 in reducing such disparity in the Italian context. READ MORE

  4. 3. “Freedom is the greatest gift your master can give you”; Understanding a protracted emancipation process from slavery to freedom from the perspective of Mauritanian master’s

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Christine Olsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Labour coercion; Emancipation; Property right; Economic incentives; Capital markets; Narrative analysis; Mauritania; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Using Mauritania as a case study this thesis compares the decline of two forms of coercive labour, slavery and servitude, to understand how masters’ incentives differ depending on property right and thus affect conditions for decline. By re-analysing sociological research through an economic lens, this thesis offers a new angle on Mauritania’s emancipation process. READ MORE

  5. 4. Balancing relationship between academia and business community in terms of soft skills supply and demand in the labour market

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Anastasiia Reznikova; [2021-06-29]
    Keywords : Labour market; Academia; Actors; Institutional logics; Institutional complexity; Multiple institutional logics; Market logic; Professional logic; Soft skills;

    Abstract : The interplay between the different logics and possibility of their balancing is of great interest and these issues have been extensively studied. Such actors as academia and the business community follow different institutional logics in the labour market. READ MORE

  6. 5. Make WISE wise again! Rethinking the Management of Hybridity in Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISE)

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Felix Leonard Stamm; Johannes Krickl; [2021]
    Keywords : WISE; Social Enterprise; Hybridity; Mission Drift; Tensions; Tension Prevention; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Work integration social enterprises (WISE) work to help the disadvantaged to enter the labour market and find a job, thereby working to correct a market failure. Research has identified hybridity, the simultaneous work towards two, sometimes contradicting, missions as a core concept of social enterprises. READ MORE