Sökning: "non-cognitive skills"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden non-cognitive skills.
1. Changes in Workplaces and Careers
Sammanfattning : Organizational Change and Productivity Growth − Evidence from SwedenThis paper uses two different firm level surveys matched with employer-employee data to investigate both determinants and effects of different types of organizational change. The results support the competition hypothesis for inducing organizational change. LÄS MER
2. Health, Skills and Labor Market Success
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the interplay between education, labor markets and health. It consists of five studies exploiting large-scale administrative datasets from Sweden. The first study asks if health and educational attainment are related within monozygotic twin (MZ) pairs. LÄS MER
3. Mind over matter : Non-cognitive assessments for the selection of the Swedish voluntary soldier of peace
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis was firstly, to investigate if the current selection system mirrors the task of international deployment and voluntariness. Secondly, to investigate if and how non-cognitive assessments of personality and resilience, individual aspects that seem underrepresented in the current selection system, may increment validity to the current selection system. LÄS MER
4. Essays on Politics, Law, and Economics
Sammanfattning : Essay 1: Several countries practice a system where laymen, who lack legal education, participate in the judicial decision making. Yet, little is known about their potential influence on the court rulings. LÄS MER
5. The geographies of knowledge in (making) artwork : The field, the art studio and the art scene
Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with the professional knowledge processes that contemporary visual artists develop and use in their construction of art as well as of their careers. In contributing to the geographical literature on professional learning and artistic labour, the thesis explores the question of how self-employed artists generate, apply and communicate their knowledge and skills in the context of individual work projects. LÄS MER