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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade ordet SEVERANCE.
1. Divisive connections: Theory and tools for the quantification of barrier effects in transport infrastructure projects
Sammanfattning : Transport infrastructure increases regional accessibility but at the same time it creates barriers that reduce local accessibility. These barriers reduce social contacts between people, and limit access to services and leisure. LÄS MER
2. Downsizing: Personnel Reductions at the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, 1915-1939
Sammanfattning : Downsizing is a phenomenon that remarkably seldom has been the subject of historical inquiry. This study investigates how a state-owned enterprise, the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, reduced its labour inputs because of changed consumer preferences and mechanization in the 1920s and 1930s. LÄS MER
3. Redundancy and the Swedish model : Swedish collective agreements on employment security in a national and international context
Sammanfattning : The dominant position of the employment perspective in Swedish labour law has resulted in a focus on the creation of protection against arbitrary dismissals and the reward for long and faithful service. In contrast to other industrialised countries, there is no financial protection in situations of redundancy (e.g. LÄS MER
4. Insurances against job loss and disability : Private and public interventions and their effects on job search and labor supply
Sammanfattning : Essay I: Employment Security Agreements, which are elements of Swedish collective agreements, offer a unique opportunity to study very early job search counselling of displaced workers. These agreements provide individual job search assistance to workers who are dismissed due to redundancy, often as early as during the period of notice. LÄS MER
5. Job Loss: Consequences and Labor Market Policy
Sammanfattning : Essay I: This paper takes a novel approach to estimating the effects of involuntary job loss on future earnings, wages and employment. Whereas the previous literature has relied on mass layoffs and plant closures for exogenous variation in displacement, I use the fact that who is laid off is often determined by a seniority rule, specifically the last-in-first-out (LIFO) rule. LÄS MER