Sökning: "gender and education"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 682 avhandlingar innehållade orden gender and education.
1. Social inequity in health : Explanation from a life course and gender perspective
Sammanfattning : Background: A boy child born in a Gothenburg suburb has a life expectancy that is nine years shorter than that of another child just 23 km away, and among girls the difference is five years. There is no necessary biological reason to this observed difference. LÄS MER
2. Education, skills and gender : The impact of a grading reform and the business cycle on labor market outcomes
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in economics, all concerned with different aspects of education and labor market outcomes. The abstracts of the three studies are as follows.A flight of hurdles? Effects on graduation and long-term labor market outcomes of a nationwide grading reform. LÄS MER
3. Ledarskap och kön : En studie av ledare och maskuliniteter i ett verkstadsindustriföretag
Sammanfattning : The thesis concerns how leadership and gender are constructed in organisations, through the management language, interactions and context. A particular focus is placed on the relations between men, masculinity and leadership. LÄS MER
4. Essays on Labor Market Disparities and Discrimination : Immigration, Education and Gender
Sammanfattning : The thesis consists of four papers, summarized as follows. Do Host Country Educations Even Out the Playing Field? Immigrant-Native Labor Market Gaps in Sweden This study follows a cohort of students from Swedish compulsory school graduation in 1988 until 2002 to document differences in education, including grades and field of education, and labor market outcomes between immigrants and natives. LÄS MER
5. Education, Gender and Media : Empirical Essays in Development Economics
Sammanfattning : The first essay, Edutainment Radio, Women’s Status and Primary School Participation: Evidence from Cambodia, investigates whether exposure to education-entertainment radio leads to improved women's status and primary school participation. Results show significant behavioral effects related to women's decision-making power and investments in children's primary schooling in exposed areas. LÄS MER