Despite ample evidence on the importance of labor market opportunities for women’s bargaining power, the link between public childcare availability and female empowerment has so far been widely overlooked. Using detailed survey data on household dynamics, this paper investigates the impact of the Mexican childcare program Estancias Infantiles para Apoyar a Madres Trabajadoras on women’s decision-m

Abstract Research questions: Which dynamic service innovation capabilities are used in different types of service innovation? How are they used in the different types? And why does their application vary? Methodology: The study has been conducted through investigating multiple cases within a single case company and followed a qualitative research strategy to identify (the application of) dynamic

In 2019 it was estimated that 50 million tonnes of e-waste was produced of which only 20% was officially recycled which has made the e-waste problem one of the most pressing environmental issues. As the current approaches to deal with the accelerating e-waste issue seemingly is falling short, the importance of utilizing alternative measures can no longer go unrecognized. Cloud computing has the ca

The aim of this master’s thesis is to explore how literature constructs the identity of the library as mysterious, and further to show what possible consequences this view of the library could have. Questions posed in the study are: How is the library as place articulated by literary representations? What possible consequences could come from reproducing this discourse? My theory and method is d

Children has become an increasingly important target group for the Swedish cultural politics where museums play an important role. This focus on children has urged the museums to create different activities, such as exhibitions, specially modeled for the target group. This thesis studies the possibilities for learning in three exhibitions that in different ways have been adjusted for children and

The number of drug prescriptions has increased dramatically over the past 20 years, benzodiazepine prescriptions being a prime example with an increase of 67 percent between 1996 and 2013. Benzodiazepines are usually prescribed for anxiety; a disease marijuana has been proven to have a small yet observed effect on. Simultaneously with the increase in benzodiazepine prescriptions, mental health has

In today’s global politics, the Arctic is assuming an increasingly important geoeconomic and geopolitical role among Arctic and non-Arctic states, as the retreating ice cover reveals new economic potentials such as the development of natural resources (Käpylä & Mikkola, 2016). China is among the interested non-Arctic states that aim to increase their influence in Arctic affairs and to get in o

There is mounting evidence that cognitive skills such as numeracy and literacy are causal drivers of economic growth. Improving such skills is therefore an essential concern for policymakers. This thesis examines whether instruction time can raise students' cognitive skills. By using cross-sectional data on several countries participating in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science

Background: Increasing dependencies between Swedish societal sectors and the critical infrastructures upon which they depend as well as institutional fragmentation within the societal sectors, have caused a need to map the critical infrastructures in Sweden. The descriptive research aiming to map and understand the Swedish pharmaceuticals supply chain is to a high degree missing today. A potential

Bakgrund: Generell anestesi utförs dagligen, trots detta kan inte full medvetslöshet garanteras. Mer är hälften av de patienter som ska genomgå generell anestesi är rädda för att vakna och uppleva awareness under operationen. Awareness kan leda till psykiska konsekvenser för patienten som långvarigt posttraumatiskt stressyndrom, depression och ångest. Syfte: Beskriva faktorer som påverkar uppkomst

This Masters paper has been the study of the language used in textformat and the word-use in Museum exhibits. I have analyzed the Region Museums in Scania, Sweden, with Museums in Rome, Italy. The view point of the paper have been to analyze language use from the staffs perspective, therefor I have interviewed persons in the staff at the selected. I have also examine the texts in the choosen exhib

This analysis examines the correlation between the stringency of environmental policies and the economic output in terms of real GDP. The data is covering real GDP, the stringency of market based as well as non-market based environmental policies, interest rates, total factor productivity and human capital. 33 countries, among the OECD and the BRICS, are being analyzed in the regression model duri

This is a qualitative case study, comparing the experiences of three documentary film directors, each using archival sources in their works. Their experiences are communicated through a series of semi-structured interviews and compared for textual analysis. The research is intended as a contribution to the archival science by expanding our knowledge on this group of archival users and by applying

Grundprincipen att "avtal ska hållas" är en central del i avtalsrätten. Frågan gällande ändrade förhållanden och dess inverkan på avtal har därför länge varit ämne för diskussion. I en långvarig avtalsrelation är det svårt att förutse risken för förändringar som kan drabba avtalet och avtalsrelationen. Frågan väcks i ett sådant sammanhang om vilka möjligheter avtalsparter har att regleraThe fundamental principle that "agreements must be kept" is a central part in contract law. How "changed circumstances" can impact an agreement has long been a subject for discussion. In long-term agreements, it is difficult to determine what risks that can impact an agreement. The question of possibilities available to handle such a situation, where the agreement can be regula

Topics of financial distress and corporate governance structure have attracted many researchers before. However, no one combined the three distress models of Altman (1968), Ohlson (1980) and Zmijewski (1984) with corporate governance variables. The main goal of this paper is to answer the following question: what is the impact of corporate governance variables on financial distress for traded U.S

An article written by the Swedish Government in 2018 outlines that they are working towards a more equal society and describes how they are conducting prevention work regarding men’s violence towards women. Although recently media has portrayed street harassment and catcalling as something that has become an increasing problem for young women in Sweden. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to

Det finns en risk att återvinningen av schaktmassor sprider gifter i miljön Ett överskott av schaktmassor är resultatet av många byggprojekt. Samtidigt behövs schaktmassor på många andra håll i samhället, som när vägar, järnvägar och bullervallar ska byggas. Att återvinna schaktmassor minskar uttaget av naturresurser och leder ofta till kortare transporter. Problemet är att massorna som återvinnsExcess soil can be a product of construction, roadwork and other types of infra-structure projects. This soil can be polluted to a greater or lesser degree, but still be suitable for recycling in different types of constructions. This study investigated what knowledge the regulatory authorities have of the pollution content in the recycled soil. Further, this study investigated opportunities and o

Dance as an art form is strongly connected to the experience of movement. Dance is also connected to the experience that occur in the relation between the audience and the performers on stage. Therefore, information is based on subjective impressions. It’s something limited and framed in a certain time and space that arises, lives and dissolves in the body and in the now. To add the archival funct

Syftet med studien var att undersöka unga kvinnors upplevelser av sexualisering i reklam samt vilka hanteringssätt de använde sig av för att hantera detta i sitt vardagliga liv. Undersökningen grundades i kvalitativ metod med en kritisk realistisk ansats där tematisk analys och semantisk kodning tillämpades för att bearbeta datan. Sju kvinnliga studenter vid Lunds Universitet deltog i semi-struktuThe study captured young women’s experience of sexualization in advertising and examined the different coping strategies they adopt to tackle sexualization in everyday life efficiently. The study was grounded in a qualitative method with an epistemological approach of a critical realist nature. Thematic analysis and semantic coding was used to interpret the data. Seven semi-structured interviews w

The faculty of Social Science of Lund University has experienced a change in the social debate; strong political beliefs have started to challenge scientific facts, together with a growing intolerance against theory and empirics that challenge one’s view of the world. The aim of this study was therefore to examine the social work students’ perception of the culture of political correctness and its