Sökning: "Family background"

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  1. 1. Family Background and Individual Achievement : Essays in Empirical Labour Economics

    Författare :Lena Lindahl; Anders Björklund; Matthew Lindquist; Øivind Anti Nilsen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Siblings; income; family background; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : College choice and subsequent earnings. Results using Swedish sibling data. This paper investigates the relationship between college choice and annual earnings, using within-family variation in college choice. LÄS MER

  3. 2. A family landscape : On the geographical distances between elderly parents and adult children in Sweden

    Författare :Anna Hjälm; Gunnar Malmberg; Anders Brändström; Emma Lundholm; Clara Mulder; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Family; elderly parents; adult children; intergenerational; child-parent proximity; migration; distance; ageing; support; register data; Sweden; Human geography; economic geography; Kulturgeografi; ekonomisk geografi; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : With a background in the ageing of the population and the new challenges facing individuals, families and the welfare state, the aim of this thesis is to analyse the changing family landscape and the geographical distances between elderly parents and adult children. The thesis consists of four empirical studies derived from three different sources of data: In the first paper (Paper I), historical population data is combined with modern register data for two Swedish regions. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Conflict and concord in work and family : Family policies and individuals' subjective experiences

    Författare :Ida Öun; Stefan Svallfors; Maria Charles; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Work-family conflict; role expansion; family policy; gender; class; dual-earner families; household work; perceptions of fairness;

    Sammanfattning : Background This thesis explores the relationship between individuals’ subjective experiences and the welfare state setting. The research questions in focus deal with the outcomes of women’s and men’s increasing dual roles in work and family in contemporary welfare states. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Who starts a family? : The prospective association between psychological factors and family formation processes

    Författare :Steffen Peters; Kieron Barclay; Mikko Myrskylä; Gunnar Andersson; Monika Mynarska; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychological factors; family formation; personality; identity; leadership skills; marital behavior; fertility; partnership dissolution; sociologisk demografi; Sociological Demography;

    Sammanfattning : The role of psychological factors for family formation processes has been underexplored in demographic research. However, psychological concepts such as personality, identity, or skills may have become increasingly relevant for family formation processes such as marital behavior, childbearing, or partnership dissolution, in particular in countries with high levels of individualism. LÄS MER

  7. 5. „Familie“ als Diskursobjekt : Veränderungen im Spiegel des Sprachgebrauchs der Presse seit den 1960er Jahren in Deutschland und Schweden

    Författare :Ida Nynke van der Woude; Damaris Nübling; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :family; meaning; language use; Swedish; German; compound words; collocations; corpus linguistic discourse analysis; historical semantics; mentality; comparative analysis; diachronic analysis; newspaper; dictionary; Familj; betydelse; språkanvändning; svenska; tyska; sammansättningar; kollokationer; korpuslingvistisk diskursanalys; historisk semantik; mentalitet; kontrastiv analys; diakron analys; tidning; ordbok; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Sammanfattning : The concept of "family" has undergone major changes over the past 50 years. This thesis examines changes in attitudes and values that can be detected in German and Swedish during this time. LÄS MER