Sökning: "Human capital accumulation"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade orden Human capital accumulation.

1. 1. Land rent, capital, rate of profit : A critique of Harvey’s model of urban land rent

   Författare :Ilia Farahani; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Urban Land Rent; Capitalist Urbanization; Rate of Profit; Absolute Rent; Spatial Monopoly Model of Land Rent; Turbulent Inter-Sectoral Model of Land Rent; David Harvey; Urban Economic Geography; Urban Land Rent; Capitalist Urbanization; Rate of Profit; Absolute Rent; Spatial Monopoly Model of Land Rent; Turbulent Inter-Sectoral Model of Land Rent; David Harvey; Urban Economic Geography;

   Sammanfattning : This study critically evaluates David Harvey’s model of urban land rent and its centrality in his explanation of the material forces that underlie and limit urban land policies, strategies, planning decisions, and investment choices. Harvey emphasizes structural forces of capital in relating economic urbanization processes to uneven patterns of capitalist development, recurrent economic crises of overaccumulation, and the need to produce spaces of accumulation to absorb surplus capital that creates crises. LÄS MER

3. 2. Das Human-Kapital : Emerging Patterns in the Class Structure

   Författare :Danial Ali Akbari; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Income inequality; Human capital accumulation; Progressive income taxation; Ambiguity aversion; Skill premium; Technology adoption; Labor immiseration; Job market polarization; Task-based framework; Fat tails;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained papers in theoretical and computational macroeconomics and growth theory with income inequality and human capital accumulation as common themes. The first paper investigates what level of income tax progressivity is welfare-optimal given modern patterns of income inequality in the US. LÄS MER

4. 3. Fossil Capital : The Rise of Steam-Power in the British Cotton Industry, c. 1825-1848, and the Roots of Global Warming

   Författare :Andreas Malm; Humanekologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Fossil economy; steam-power; water-power; cotton industry; Britain; capital accumulation; global warming;

   Sammanfattning : The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels are burnt in the world. How did we get caught up in this mess? This thesis returns to a crucial moment in the emergence of the fossil economy: the rise of steam-power. LÄS MER

5. 4. Perspectives on human capital : economic growth, occupational choice and intergenerational mobility

   Författare :Anna Sjögren; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation consists of three essays, taking different perspectives on human capital. The first essay looks at human capital from a growth perspective. Essays two and three focuses on the individual’s occupational decision and its relation to family background. LÄS MER

7. 5. Reclaiming Territory from Below : Grassroots Environmentalism and Waste Conflicts in Campania, Italy

   Författare :Salvatore Paolo De Rosa; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; grassroots movements; popular environmentalism; territory; waste management; environmental conflicts; Organized crime; southern Italy; political ecology; socioecological metabolism;

   Sammanfattning : In the course of 2000s, the region of Campania in southern Italy and its capital city Naples became global icons of waste mismanagement after the images of piles of rubbish occluding their urban areas hit the headlines. Conventional explanations, in Italy and elsewhere, pointed to administrative failure, cultural backwardness and mafia infiltration as the main causes of waste mishandling. LÄS MER