Hur konsumentpriser svarar på förändringar i priser i producentled är en fråga som debatterats mycket. Utifrån denna förutsättning undersöker uppsatsen hur olika mejerivarupriser, mjölk, grädde, glass, smör och ost, svarar på förändringar i avräkningspriset för mjölk. Med utgångspunkt i teorier om asymmetrisk prisöverföring undersöks om prishöjningar i producentledet medför en trögare tillbakagång

The aim of this study was to examine employees at both voluntary and municipal protective shelters, concerning their view upon freedom and control. The study was limited to include young women, who have been exposed to honour-related violence. The purpose was also to examine the opinion of the staff concerning the women’s experience of these terms. The questions at issue were: What do the staff me

Who cares about the people with a gambling abuse? Gambling abuse is a problem that has been getting more and more attention in the media and through the people that work with the subject. The Swedish state has monopoly on gambling in Sweden but the Internet makes it possible for international gambling companies to reach customers in Sweden. This in return makes it harder for the Swedish state and

Abstract Author: Emilie Premberg Title: “A smiling face – support and strategies up one`s sleeve” A work environment study at DSB First Sverige AB. Supervisor: Charlotta Zettervall Assessor: Hans Swärd The aim of this study has been to find different “healthy-factors” that helps trainmanagers at DSB First to handle their situation at work with threat, violence and other negative stressors. A fur

Empirically the thesis is based on a qualitative inquiry of five companies in the cultural sector. They have all been chosen because of their alternative ways of thinking in relation to the purpose of economic activities. They represent a social criticism not usually associated with entrepreneurship, they are not growth-oriented, they work in both the cultural- and the market sphere and they opera

Ett handelsbolag föreligger då två eller flera bolagsmän har avtalat att gemensamt utöva näringsverksamhet och fört in bolaget i handelsregistret. Ett handelsbolag där en eller flera bolagsmän endast svarar för en viss förbindelse kallas för ett kommanditbolag. Varje bolagsman i ett handelsbolag skall vid varje räkenskapsår tillgodoräknas ränta på sin insats samt tilldelas ett skäligt arvode för s

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the determinants of the retirement decisions in Sweden by using qualitative micro data from The Survey on Health and Retirement in probit models. The models investigate the change in job status between the first survey wave in year 2004 and the second survey wave in year 2006/2007 by adding background variables measured in years 2004. The study show that de

“It’s for the sake of the clients that we are here” – The managers’ area of discretion and their ability to influence the elderly’s daily situation. Our essay focuses on managers of nursing homes in the Swedish municipal elderly care and their ability to influence the elderly’s everyday life. We were also interested in how they use this area of discretion and the factors that influence and limit

Authors: Rebecka Werngren and Sofia Ekblom Title: The last way out. A qualitative study of how social workers reach a motion about compulsory institutional care for youth. [translated title] Supervisor: Claes Levin The purpose of this study has been to examine social workers opinion about compulsory institutional care for youths. The aim has been to recognize how professionals reach decisions abo

The perception of young men's vulnerability in the honor context Despite its existence, physical and sexual abuse of men is rarely addressed in media or research. When men are put into a context of honor, they are often seen as perpetrators, which problematize the view of young men as victims another dimension. Thus young men and boys in honor structures are faced with a dilemma when they in

This qualitative study is about how individual supportive conversation between school welfare officers and pupils in upper secondary school is carried out. The major interest of the study was to explore the problems that school welfare officers have during forced or involuntary supportive conversations with pupils, and how those problems can be understood and solved with the concept of strategies.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att utifrån ett nationalekonomiskt perspektiv redogöra för hur handel med utsläppsrätter påverkar konkurrenskraften för den svenska stålindustrin inom den europeiska stålmarknaden. Uppsatsen belyser även vad kommande förändringar i handelsdirektivet kan komma att föra med sig. Uppsatsen bygger på att med en induktiv metod redogöra för samt beskriva kvantitativa data frå

In the airline industry, it is critical for carriers to vary prices offered to different customer groups in order to extract maximum willingness-to-pay from each consumer. This essay investigates a dynamic form of third-degree price discrimination in which prices are strategically adjusted as departure date approaches. It is hypothesized that by including a stochastic element in their pricing sche

This essay investigates the extent to which the four emerging Central Eastern European stock markets of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine have become integrated with the developed market of the European Union over the sample period from 1997 to 2010. Rolling-window correlation and a more advanced, dynamic conditional correlation approach with GARCH and EGARCH specifications are utili

Author: Nina Andersson Title: The employees right – The managers obligation. A study regarding midline managers view of performance reviews. [Translated title] Supervisor: Tove Harnett Assessor: Hans Swärd In Swedish municipalities all employees have the right to once a year have a private meeting with their manager. This meeting is meant to give feedback to the employee regarding their work eff

There are today about 200 000 children living in families where either one or both parents are addicted to alcohol. These children often become young carers, as they are prematurely being placed in adult caring roles. The aim of this thesis has been to illustrate the situation for children of alcoholics and to examine how these children are coping when parents do not fulfil their parenting respons

The system on migrant domestic workers in post-industrialist countries has been widely researched, and extensive material exists on migrant domestic service from the Philippines and Eastern Europe. However, the system on domestic work performed by local women other than housewives or nonmembers of the family in the household(nonkinship) has rarely caught the attention of mainstream research commun

By using Lee-Carter model by sex and the origin of tumor we forecasted the cancer incidence. The usefulness of Lee-Carter methods to the incidence rates was shown. For forecasting the future the time trend parameter of Lee-Carter model behaves very close to Random-walk but it is not exactly Random-walk for most cases. It is better to leave the option open to AR(1) and not restrict ourselves to Ran

Att säga upp en arbetstagare på personliga uppsägningsgrunder är något som är tämligen strikt reglerat i Sverige genom 7 § LAS krav på saklig grund. Samarbetssvårigheter är kanske den svåraste grunden att nyttja då den endast i undantagsfall utgör skäl för uppsägning. Detta beror på att ett samarbetsproblem alltför lättvindigt kan tillskrivas en enskild eller flera arbetstagares vilja att göra sig