Essays about: "the mixed economy of welfare"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words the mixed economy of welfare.

1. 1. Happiness is the same price as red bottoms? Welfare Cost of Business Cycle with Consumption Disasters

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Zhiheng Xu; [2020]
   Keywords : welfare cost; business cycles; heterogeneous agents; Sweden; income disparity;

   Abstract : This paper constructs a model, calibrated towards the Swedish economy, with heterogeneous agents in the economy who make decisions to maximize their expected utilities, subjected both to aggregate risks and idiosyncratic risks. In setting up the model, I try to match the unit-root nature of total factor of productivity and the unit-root component in the aggregate consumption time series, with rare consumption disasters incorporated. READ MORE

3. 2. The effects on animal welfare, production and economy when using feed blocks for sheep

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

   Author : Ebba Ekholm; [2019]
   Keywords : feed blocks; sheep; ewes; growing lambs; economy; welfare; health; production;

   Abstract : Feed blocks are a feed product where certain ingredients are mixed together, to createa solid block. The goal is to provide the animals with a small supply of nutrients at atime, such as energy, protein and minerals. In large sheep countries like the UK, thefeed blocks fill a function under certain conditions. READ MORE

4. 3. Imagining intelligent artefacts : Myths and a digital sublime regarding artificial intelligence in Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/JMK

   Author : Axel Allen; [2019]
   Keywords : artificial intelligence; AI; technological myths; Sweden; digital sublime; Vincent Mosco; news media; Svenska Dagbladet; SvD;

   Abstract : Artificial intelligence (AI) has over the past years become a hot topic for discussion in Sweden, as the technology presents exciting unique possibilities and challenges for the country and its citizens. Coverage of AI in Swedish news media presents imagined scenarios with both current and future AI that contribute to myths about how the technology is able to radically transform life, that spring out of a central digital sublime. READ MORE

5. 4. “They don’t fit in”: Homeless EU migrants, New Social Risks and the Mixed Economy of Welfare in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan

   Author : Teresa Lindström; [2015]
   Keywords : Welfare state; Sweden; EU; migration; new social risks; the mixed economy of welfare; Malmö; Lund; Gothenburg; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Problem/ background: Since the enlargement of the EU in 2004 and the free mobility directive there has been growing concern of homelessness and destituteness among EU migrants in several European countries, Sweden being one of them. This is an important welfare and policy issue. READ MORE

6. 5. Women’s Education in Four Villages in Kenya: The Perceived Outcomes on Livelihoods and Household Welfare

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Sara Bengtson; [2014]
   Keywords : development studies; livelihood diversification; household welfare; women’s education; Kenya; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis is concerned with women’s education and the perceived effects it might have on households’ livelihood diversification into the rural non-farm economy. In addition, it looks at household welfare and how women’s education and potentially livelihood diversification adds to better welfare. READ MORE