Sökning: "Points-to analysis"
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16. Essays on Event History Analysis and the Effects of Social Programs on Individuals and Firms
Sammanfattning : Essay I: This paper studies threat effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit sanctions on job exit rates. Using a difference-in-differences design, I exploit two reforms of the Swedish UI system that made monitoring and sanctions considerably stricter at different points in time for different jobseeker groups. LÄS MER
17. Legal bribes? : An analysis of corporate donations to electoral campaigns
Sammanfattning : In this research I analyse how the existence of regulations that allow private funding of election campaigns have created opportunities for crime. Three specific questions are addressed here: 1. Do electoral donations increase political corruption? 2. Why do companies give electoral donations? 3. LÄS MER
18. Dedicated Followers of Fashion : An Economic Geographic Analysis of the Swedish Fashion Industry
Sammanfattning : In fashion, as in the rest of the economy, the globalisation of taste, power and production now plays a major role. The industry is dominated by fashion capitals like Paris, London or New York, populated by star designers like Tom Ford, Karl Lagerfeld or Jean-Paul Gaultier and controlled through MNC giants like Prada, Gucci, DKNY and Dior, who together influence consumer preferences on a global scale. LÄS MER
19. Läsande flickor : Läspolitik och det genomlysta subjektet
Sammanfattning : The dissertation explores the multiple shapes of ‘the reading girl’ and how this subject is constructed in reading surveys and assessments during the 1900s and early 2000s. The analysis focuses on mapping the subject's historical constitution by defining specific historical events that have been important in shaping the reading girl as a subject. LÄS MER
20. Bearing the brunt of warming: Interactions between carbon and hydrology in northern Sweden
Sammanfattning : Climate modelling studies indicate that subarctic ecosystems are predicted to show some of the earliest responses to climate change. The predicted temperature and precipitation changes have implications for the carbon biogeochemical cycle with ancillary effects in permafrost soils, vegetation, and stream networks. LÄS MER