Essays about: "thesis in careers"

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  1. 21. Why Aid Workers Persist : Supports and Impediments for Long-term Engagement

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Lisen Lindström; [2020]
    Keywords : Humanitarian aid work; motivation; burnout; persist; supporting and impeding factors;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to explore what factors support aid workers to continue in the humanitarian sector, even with the knowledge that their personal well-being, and sometimes their lives, may be in danger due to risk-filled settings and assignments. To find out what factors that encourage aid workers to continue, the thesis also examines their backgrounds and paths into this profession. READ MORE

  3. 22. Vintage Workers: A Qualitative Study on Age Discrimination in Hiring Among High-Skilled Occupations

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Elvira Ekberg; Fredrik Bauer; [2020]
    Keywords : Age Discrimination; Older Worker; Hiring; Stereotypes; Ideal Worker;

    Abstract : At a point in time when demographic aging is inevitable, countries across the globe try to encourage older workers to remain in the workforce past the set retirement age. Meanwhile, the academic debate emphasizes how these supply-side reforms are undermined by demand-side barriers in the form of hiring discrimination among older workers caused by age stereotypes. READ MORE

  4. 23. Managerial representation: Are Women Better Off in the Public or the Private Sector? : A quantitative study of gender inequality in managerial authority in the Swedish welfare state service industries

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Linnea Claésson; [2019]
    Keywords : Managerial authority; gender gap; Sweden; public sector; private sector;

    Abstract : In recent decades, Sweden has seen a rapid increase in the share of health care, education and social care that is delivered by privately-owned companies. Such privatisation of welfare state services has by some of its advocators been viewed as a means to enhance gender equality in labour market outcomes; one of them being access to managerial positions. READ MORE

  5. 24. Artists without an income? : critical analysis of the value gap and its impact on emerging artists and the music industry

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Jenny-Maria Lohiniva; [2019]
    Keywords : music industy; artists; streaming services; value gap; record labels; media conglomeration; live performance; visual image; social media; recording industry; music distribution; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis seeks to discover what are the consequences of the value gap, for the emerging artists and the music industry by critically evaluating the concept of value gap and what it means for the music industry. This will also lead the way to discovering how emerging artists are “making it” in the era of music streaming, and which aspects are playing a significant role in this. READ MORE

  6. 25. AUTOMATED GENDER CLASSIFICATION IN WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHIESa cross-lingual comparison

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Sasha Weijand; [2019]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The written word plays an important role in the reinforcement of gender stereotypes, especially in texts of a more formal character. Wikipedia biographies have a lot of information about famous people, but do they describe men and women with different kinds of words? This thesis aims to evaluate and explore a method for gender classification of text. READ MORE