Essays about: "structural labour market changes"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words structural labour market changes.

  1. 1. Proportional income taxation and heterogeneous labour supply responses : A study of gender-based heterogeneity in extensive margin labour supply decisions in response to changes in proportional income taxation in Swedish municipalities from 1960 to 1990

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Elliott Syrén; [2022]
    Keywords : Proportional income taxation; Municipal tax rates; Extensive margin labour supply; Gender-based heterogeneity; Fixed effects; Weighted least squares WLS ; Public economics;

    Abstract : This thesis is, to my knowledge, the first study utilising data from the Swedish population and housing censuses between 1960 and 1990 merged with other data from the same period in order to estimate extensive margin labour supply responses to changes in municipal tax rate changes. Given that women historically have not faced the same structural labour market preconditions as men, the empirical strategy is designed to allow for an analysis of gender-based heterogeneity in labour supply responses. READ MORE

  3. 2. YOUTH UNIONISATION IN DECLINE Increasing negative attitudes towards the union or a growing involuntary structural individualism?

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Charles Jeganeh; [2020-09-21]
    Keywords : Union coverage declines; youth’s attitudes towards the union; structural labour market changes; involuntary structural individualism; mixed-methods nested analysis approach;

    Abstract : Sweden has in the past years experienced union coverage declines, particularly amongst young individuals aged 16-24. Previous studies indicates conflicting results regarding the relationship between the youth’s attitudes towards the union and their unionisation outcome. READ MORE

  4. 3. No agency, no sustainability : conceptualising the loss of agency and how to restore it for sustainability

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Jan Peter Glock; [2017]
    Keywords : agency; unconditional basic income; neoliberalism; insecurity; structural transformation; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation demand humanity to depart from the growth imperative forming the economic structure of the world. In other words: Structural transformation is needed. READ MORE

  5. 4. Foreign agricultural investors in Eastern Germany : a qualitative study of how they affect the local labour market

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Janine Grosse; [2015]
    Keywords : employment effects; foreign agricultural investor; labour economics; structural change;

    Abstract : Foreign direct investment in agricultural land became more important in public discussions, whether in international dimensions or on the national level. This study focuses on the phenomenon of foreign agricultural investors being proactive in several regions in Germany, specifically in the former East Germany. READ MORE

  6. 5. The New Welfare State. Experiences in the Everyday Work Life of Swedish Employment Agency Officers

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Emma-Lina Johansson; [2014]
    Keywords : Welfare State; Unemployment; Employment Agency; Vocational Rehabilitation; Citizenship; Feminist Theory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : During the past decades, the Swedish welfare state has been transformed in profound ways. Many important changes are related to the labour market, particularly the organisation of the unemployed. READ MORE