Sökning: "Local labour markets"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 25 avhandlingar innehållade orden Local labour markets.
1. Thai Surrogate Mothers’ Experiences of Transnational Commercial Surrogacy : Navigating Local Morality and Global Markets
Sammanfattning : Transnational commercial surrogacy is an arrangement where a woman gestates and delivers a child for intended parents from another country in exchange for money. This thesis explores the experiences of women who have acted as surrogate mothers in Thailand. LÄS MER
2. Home, Job and Space : Mapping and Modeling the Labor Market
Sammanfattning : How does space affect individuals’ outcome on the labor market? And how do we measure it? Beyond the notion of the labor market as a system of supply and demand, lays a society of individuals and workplaces, whose relationships are undeniably complex. This thesis aims to shed some new light on how to investigate and analyze the complex labor market relationships from a spatial perspective. LÄS MER
3. Imagined Independence. Institutional Conditions and Individual Opportunities in European Labour Markets
Sammanfattning : The studies presented in this thesis examine perceived labour market opportunities and conditions for labour market mobility for European employees. The European labour market strategy has created an opportunity-oriented employability-logic that emphasises individual characteristics and individual responsibility for employment. LÄS MER
4. Hooked on Markets : Revaluing Coastal Fisheries in Liberal Rural Capitalism
Sammanfattning : Natural resource–based economies are typically embedded in rural networks of production. In recent years, however, the privatisation of access rights and the organisation of markets have substantially transformed some of these rural economies. LÄS MER
5. Local impacts of large investments
Sammanfattning : The aim of the thesis is to investigate local impacts of large investments. This problem has been approached from three directions and, therefore, the study consists of three themes, namely: the changing spatial patterns of corporate activities, the short-term local economic impacts of investments, and the long-term socio-economic impacts of investments on the local municipality. LÄS MER