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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 37 avhandlingar innehållade ordet quotas.

1. 21. Understanding the Conditions and Consequences of Women’s Political Representation

   Författare :Valeriya Mechkova; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Descriptive Representation; Substantive Representation; Women and Politics;

   Sammanfattning : In recent decades, women’s ability to engage in politics and civil society has risen dramatically across the globe. What has the increase in the number of women in politics, their “descriptive representation”, meant in substantive terms for women-citizens but also for societies in general? This dissertation contributes to clarifying the effects of descriptive representation of women on substantive representation, defined as the policy areas women tend to prioritize to a higher degree than men. LÄS MER

3. 22. Studies in climate change policy : theory and experiments

   Författare :Björn Carlén; Jason Shogren; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Emission Quota Trade Among the Few: Laboratory Evidence of Joint Implementation Among Committed Countries. The purpose of the laboratory tests reported here is to identify a well-functioning design, tailored for an upcoming unique experiment using real-world relevant decision makers for carbon emission reductions trade among four countries committed to binding carbon emission limits, a form of so-called joint implementation. LÄS MER

4. 23. Self-Control, Financial Well-Being, and Motivated Reasoning : Essays in Behavioral Finance

   Författare :Camilla Strömbäck; Ali M. Ahmed; Gustav Tinghög; Daniel Västfjäll; Marcus Selart; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Dual-process theory; Self-control; Financial behavior; Financial well-being; Affective forecasting; Motivated reasoning;

   Sammanfattning : The objective of this thesis is to improve our understanding of how individual differences in intuitive and analytic decision making are associated with people’s behavior as well as their well-being. The first three essays investigate, in turn, how self-control—a typical System 2 driven ability—correlates with financial behavior, financial well-being, and affective forecasting ability. LÄS MER

5. 24. Mitigating Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks: Application-defense and Network-defense Methods

   Författare :Zhang Fu; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Distributed Denial-of-Service; Network Security; Distributed Computing; System Design;

   Sammanfattning : Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks can be so powerful that theycan easily deplete the computing resources or bandwidth of the potential targets.Based on the types of the targets, DDoS attacks can be addressed in two levels:application-level and network-level. LÄS MER

7. 25. Empirical Studies on Firm and Labor Market Dynamics

   Författare :Polina Knutsson; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Human capital; occupational choice; sorting; new rms; worker mobility; import competition; distance; rm-product performance;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained papers. The first paper, Sorting on Unobserved Skills into New Firms, adds to the literature on worker characteristics and post-entry firm performance by putting the unobserved quality of workers in the center of analysis. LÄS MER