Sökning: "Informality"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 30 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Informality.

  1. 16. On high-dimensional Mahalanobis distances

    Författare :Dai Deliang; Thomas Holgersson; Schmid Wolfgang; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; business cycle; employment; immigrant; import competition; informality; life satisfaction; local labour market; self-employment; unemployment rate;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis consists of three empirical essays on the topics of self-employment, happiness and international trade.Essay 1 studies how immigrant self-employment entry is affected by the local business cycle in Sweden. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Walking the tight rope : Informal livelihoods and social networks in a West African city

    Författare :Ilda Lourenço-Lindell; Katherine Gough; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; social networks; social capital; informal safety nets; informal sector; informalization; livelihoods; urban food; regulation; social change; structural adjutsment; Guinea-Bissau; West Africa; African cities; ADP; ADB;

    Sammanfattning : Trends towards ‘informalization’ are looming large in the world today. African cities have long been characterised by the presence of an ‘informal sector’ but are now experiencing new waves of ‘informalization’. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Lightweight consistency checking for advancing continuous model-based development in industry

    Författare :Robbert Jongeling; Jan Carlson; Antonio Vallecillo; Mälardalens universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Computer Science; datavetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : For the development of modern software-intensive systems, a large number of development artifacts are created and maintained to design and implement their intended structure and behavior. In this thesis, we consider continuous model-based development settings in which models and other development artifacts are developed incrementally, in short development cycles. LÄS MER

  5. 19. In a world of values and views : Information and learning activities in a military setting

    Författare :Karin Dessne; Högskolan i Borås; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Library and Information Science; Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is about information and learning activities in organisations. A case study of the Swedish Armed Forces has been conducted and it consists of two parts; the first involves a licentiate thesis and two papers, while the second part includes two additional papers. The study focuses on learning from experiences in training and field action. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Postcolonial Nature Conservation and Collaboration in Urban Protected Areas : Everyday relations at Macassar Dunes/Wolfgat reserves, Cape Town, South Africa

    Författare :Marnie Graham; Henrik Ernstson; Thomas Elmqvist; Sandie Suchet-Pearson; Richie Howitt; Michael Adams; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; collaborative conservation; co-management; postcolonial identities; urban nature; ways of knowing nature; Southern cities; Indigenous methodology; Macassar Dunes Wolfgat reserves; Cape Town; South Africa; politics of nature conservation; naturresurshushållning; Natural Resources Management;

    Sammanfattning : Protected areas and nature conservation are profoundly shaped by Western ideas, and are embedded within powerful discourses and colonising practices. This thesis examines how colonialism and apartheid shape contemporary practices of nature conservation in Cape Town in South Africa - its institutions, geographies and peoples. LÄS MER