Sökning: "Household welfare"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 82 avhandlingar innehållade orden Household welfare.

  1. 1. Stadsgemenskapens resurser och villkor : Samhällssyn och välfärdsstrategier i Linköping 1600-1620

    Författare :Annika Sandén; Dag Lindström; Jan Sundin; Jan Samuelson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Early modern; marriage; household; order; welfare; social capital; honour; local society; community; Välfärd; historia; socialt kapital; allmän ordning och säkerhet; lokalsamhällen; Linköping; 1600-talet; History; Historia;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies early seventeenth century local government, both the secular and religious, in order to investigate that period’s concepts of ”the good society”, and the strategies that were used to achieve and retain this ideal. The goal of the investigation is to give a broader understanding of early modern society at the local level. LÄS MER

  3. 2. From Welfare to Work : Financial Incentives, Active Labor Market Policies, and Integration Programs

    Författare :Lillit Ottosson; Eva Mörk; Anna Sjögren; Ulrika Vikman; Alexander Willén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social assistance; Welfare; Labor supply; Public sector employment programs; Cost-shifting; Dynamic inverse probability weighting; Refugees; Integration; Active labor market policies; Language support; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Essay I: I study the effects of increased social assistance (SA) generosity by exploiting exogenous variation induced by a ruling in the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court in 1993, mandating local governments to provide a minimum level of untied SA payments. The new rule forced some local governments to increase their SA generosity, while others were unaffected as they already complied with the stricter standards. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Economic Analyses of Drinking Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries

    Författare :Therése Hindman; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ekonomisk teori; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; economic policy; economic systems; economic theory; econometrics; Economics; Discrete Choice; Welfare; Child Health; Water and Sanitation; Household Demand; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik; Public health; epidemiology; Folkhälsa; epidemiologi; Environmental health; Miljömedicin;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on different aspects of household demand, and the determinants of demand, for water and sanitation related inputs fundamental to the households' well-being, i.e. drinking water and toilet facilities. The thesis consists of five chapters, one introductory chapter and four self-contained, essentially empirical, studies. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Essays on welfare and debt : From impact evaluation in Kenya to Canadian housing markets

    Författare :Jean-Philippe Deschamps-Laporte; Lars Hultkrantz; Jörgen Levin; Gunnar Isacsson; Elin Vimefall; Dick Durevall; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Impact evaluation; rural development; agricultural extension; technology adoption; wealth effect; housing; household debt;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is comprised of two independent essays on the topics of impact evaluation, and one essay on the housing wealth-effect. The essays address key questions on welfare and spending decisions made by households when subject to government assistance programs and increases in housing prices. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Livspusslet : Tid som välfärdsfaktor

    Författare :Uffe Enokson; Tapio Salonen; Kajsa Ellegård; Växjö universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; time; income; social networks; flexibility; work life balance; restrictions; time-rich; time-poor; time geography; working time policy in Sweden and the European Union; working time regimes; life course perspective; welfare regime; tid; pengar; sociala nätverk; flexibilitet; strategier; tidrika; tidfattiga; tidsgeografi; restriktionsanalys; arbetstidspolicy i Sverige och Europeiska Unionen; arbetstidsregimer; flexicurity; livsförloppsperspektiv; välfärdsregim; Social work; Socialt arbete; Socialt arbete; Social Work;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis sheds some light on the duality between time-rich and time-poor living conditions and examines in which way this duality/polarisation paves the way for new patterns of inequality. The purpose is to explore the living conditions of two groups in society: those who are established in the labour force and who experience great demands on their efficiency and educational level and those who are unwanted and who do not have a natural place in the labour market. LÄS MER