This study investigates the relationship between health and households’ decisions whether to participate in the stock market or not. We construct a set of health variables and out of these, we choose the most important health factors, such as self-assessed health, mobility limitations and mental health. To test empirically the hypothesis that healthier households are more likely to participate in

This thesis examines the effect of closing down police stations on crime in Sweden from 1996 to 2011. This is done by analyzing the relationship between the number of crimes in a municipality, the crime rate and the closing down of police stations in 288 Swedish municipalities from 1996 to 2011. A quantitative approach using a difference-in-difference estimator and monthly panel-data from question

Syftet med denna studie var att få en inblick i en grupp ungdomars individuella upplevelser och erfarenheter av att använda Facebook och hur detta påverkar identitetsutvecklingen. Det var även av intresse att undersöka om det fanns några könsskillnader gällande användandet av Facebook. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats, där fokusgruppintervjun användes som metod. Undersökningsdeltagarna bestod av e

Author: Fredrik Nilsson Title: To understand consensus – a study about Swedish social workers thoughts and experiences about consensus when planning treatment for clients with substance abuse [translated title] Supervisor: Arne Kristiansen Assessor: Ulrika Levander The aim for this study was to examine how Swedish social secretaries who worked with alcohol and drug addiction, viewed the consensus

Abstract Author: Da Sol, Jung and Rebecca Sundqvist Title: He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance – A study of professionals’ view on their attitude in meeting with clients and professionalism of the two organiations. Supervisor: Claes Levin Assessor: Maria Bangura Arvidsson The aim of our essay was to study if there were dif

En växande utmaning för dagens organisationer är hållbart företagande och införande av miljöledningssystem, dvs. strukturerat och systematiskt miljöarbete (Naturvårdsverket, 2003). Studien syftar till att empiriskt undersöka tre dimensioner av medarbetarskap (kunskap och lärande, demokratiska processer och lärande) och samt tre förändringsfaktorer kopplade till införande av miljöledningssystem (at

The thesis concentrates on the issue of bill of lading fraud and discusses legal remedies as to respective type of fraud. Due to complexity and difference of each jurisdiction, the thesis selects English law and Chinese law as targeted jurisdiction, under which the issue of bill of lading will be addressed and analyzed. In addition to domestic law, the recent-adopted international convention, name

Denna uppsats är ett examensarbete i juris kandidatprogrammet. Uppsatsen är skriven inom området familjerätt och behandlar problemområdet riskfyllda umgängen där domstolen förordnar om umgängesstöd för att tillvarata barnets rätt till umgänge. Jag kommer i uppsatsen redogöra för hur de rättigheter som ett barn har i förhållande till sina föräldrar ser ut, däribland rätten till umgänge och rätten tThis thesis is written within the field of family law, covering the problematic area of access right where the court decides that supervised access is going to be used in order to obtain the child’s right to meet and have contact with his or her parents. To obtain an adequate general idea about how supervised access is used, I have chosen to explore a) how the intervention is intended to work in S

This master’s thesis aims to compare national museum in Norway and Sweden throughout different time periods. The study consists of a literary analysis of yearly reports from 1905-06 and 2010 from the open-air museums: Norsk Folkemuseum and Skansen, and the national art museums: Nationalmuseum and Nasjonalmuseum for kunst, arkitektur og design. With the dissolution of the political union between No

Repatriation has been proclaimed as the important right of an individual to go back home and returnees are often seen as substantial force for development and reconstruction of their home countries. It is assumed that once the reasons that force people to flee are eliminated, people will want to return back. There is a separate repatriation program in Sweden that aims to support those who decide t

Anorexia Nervosa (AN) är en allvarlig sjukdom med orsaksförklaringar som varierat genom historien. Studier om familjer med en anorektisk medlem ger inga belägg för en konsistent bild. Behandling av vuxna saknar empiriskt stöd och ökad kunskap behövs om unga vuxna. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka reliabiliteten i familjerelationsskalan (FARS) samt hur det korrelerar med instrument för int

The present study looked at beliefs/attitudes towards and effects of dreams, in a larger, primarily non-student, adult sample (N=667). On one side, findings supported previous research in that women were more approving towards dreams, they recalled more dreams, read dream literature more often, speculated more frequently about their dreams, and finally shared dreams more often than men. It was als

The aim of the paper is to illustrate the role of commodity price fluctuations in business cycles in three countries - the United Kingdom, the United States and Sweden. The study examines data between 1993 (Q3) – 2011(Q2). The countries in this paper represent differences in economic structure – Sweden is primarily an economy characterized by the manufacturing of goods, the United Kingdom represen

We chose to write this essay on how the social services were illustrated and how it was reviewed in the media after the two cases in the municipality of Mark and Sandviken. These cases were brought to attention by Uppdrag granskning, the Swedish TV program, in two different coverages. Moreover, we have emanating from articles, blogs, and chat room conversations and gathered what people have writte

I denna uppsats har vi undersökt hur Greenpeace Norden som ideell miljöorgani-sation uttrycker sig i text för att påverka opinionen i kärnkraftsfrågan efter kärn-kraftsolyckan i Fukushima Daiichi. Vi har genomfört en kritisk diskursanalys på texter som publicerats från det datum olyckan ägde rum och ett år framåt i tiden. Sammanlagt har vi analyserat två debattartiklar, fem artiklar, sex pressmeddIn this Bachelor thesis we have analyzed how Greenpeace Nordic, as a non-profit organization, express themselves in written language to influence and shape the public opinion on nuclear energy after the nuclear accident in Fukushima Daiichi. We have analyzed texts published on the organizations website from the time of the accident to a year after, using a critical discourse analysis. We have anal

Uppsatsen behandlar, utifrån ett animal studies-perspektiv, den normalitetsförändring som sker mellan människan och noshörningen i Eugène Ionescos absurda drama Rhinocéros.

The use of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) as means of combating poverty has increased considerably the past decade. CCTs are safety net programs that transfer cash to targeted poor households, often to the mothers, on the condition that those households make pre-specified investments in the human capital of their children. The conditions are often criticised because the conditions only applies

The question of which discount rate to choose when it comes to calculating costs and benefits regarding climate change has been discussed among economists since at least the beginning of the 1990’s. However, the issue of which discount rate to choose is not just an academic question, it also has major implications for climate change policy. In this paper I will show that there exists large disagre