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Numerous empirical studies have discovered that parenthood affects women’s earnings negatively, while men face much smaller penalties and even experience both fatherhood and marriage premiums. This paper uses a cross-sectional approach to analyze the earnings penalty of motherhood and fatherhood in Sweden. It also investigates various earnings penalties experienced by parents, such as the effects

2 Abstract The paper focuses on evaluating the most performant Value-at-Risk models from the perspective of financial institutions. A number of 18 VaR methodologies were used for this purpose, comprising of parametric and non-parametric methods, some of which include time-varying volatilities estimated by means of GARCH and asymmetric GARCH models. All methods were applied on real P/L data extract

Since the strategy of “Going Global” to be implemented, the Chinese OFDI has been increased rapidly. For a long time, governments in developed countries as well as some scholars hold the different attitudes that OFDI will crowd out Chinese domestic 5 investment. In this study, we empirically analyze this relationship between OFDI and domestic investment in China based on the data from 1986 to 2010

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the factors hindering and enabling the use of the environmental composite indicator, the Ecological Footprint, in Denmark. In this project, Actor-network theory and case study research will be applied to the empirical material, consisting of five semi-structured interviews and written documents. The case study approach works as a general research strategy,

Den här uppsatsen behandlar huruvida den Europeiska byrån för förvaltningen av det operativa samarbetet vid Europeiska Unionens medlemsstaters yttre gränser, Frontex, genom sitt arbete orsakar hinder för flyktingars möjlighet att utnyttja sin rättighet att söka asyl. Då den Europeiska Unionen (EU) har ett pågående arbete för att harmonisera de nationella asylsystemen i medlemsstaterna blir det intThis paper addresses whether the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders, Frontex, through their work causes obstacles for refugees in exercising their right to seek asylum. As the European Union (EU) has an ongoing effort to harmonize the national asylum systems of the Member States it is interesting to examine whether the system is coherent. Since bo

Denna uppsats vill bidra till ämnet teologisk metod, och undersöker hur soteriologi integreras i systematisk teologi, dvs. hur talet om frälsning, som teologiskt delämne, relaterar till en komplex teologisk helhet. Soteriologi är präglat av mångfald, vilket är både nödvändigt och önskat. Jag anser att det finns (minst) fyra vägledande koncept som är involverade när soteriologi integreras i systemaWith this essay, I try to contribute to the field of methodology, and study how soteriology is integrated into systematic theology, i.e., how the way the talk about salvation, as a part of theology, relates to a complex theological whole. Soteriology is diverse, which is both necessary and desired. In this essay, I argue that there are (at least) four guiding notions at work when soteriology is in

This thesis focuses on the econometric evaluation of the effects of major exports and imports on the balance of foreign trade in Pakistan. Various statistical techniques at our disposal have been used such as principal component analysis, stepwise regression and multiple linear regression. Attempt has been made to look out for the stationarity in the data for the balance of trade in Pakistan. Augm

The Chinese economy has been growing with a pace and duration that the world has never seen before. Since 1978, the country has been facing a constant economic growth for more than 30 years. One of the pillars of the economy is the automotive industry; an interesting mixture of Joint Ventures and independent companies. The competition is cut throat and has even been more intense after the China’s

The purpose of this paper is to facilitate the understanding of the relationships between law and politics through an analysis of different conceptions of sovereignty. Sovereignty is a concept that touches upon both legal and politics aspects. The concept is founded within the legal, but developed through processes within the political sphere. This invariably leads to numerous meanings of the sove

The aim of the thesis is to explain how the adoption of ICT influences the performance of the national health service and what barriers exist in the adoption of ICT from three perspectives; processes, patients and employees. The thesis uses qualitative data to investigate the effects and barriers of ICT adoption in Region Skåne’s healthcare. The thesis has an inductive approach. The theories the t

The phenomenons called blogging and learning organisations are both contemporary and research is inconclusive (e.g. Easterby-Smith et al., 2000 and Wattal et al., 2009). This study aims to merge the two by means of a participative and exploratory case study on corporate blogging. By use of qualitative interviews and a data analysis focusing on concentrated meanings and thematic categorisation, the

This thesis is investigating the British Conservative Party’s focus on two concepts: the Big Society and the Broken Society. By using Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analytical approach in analysing the language used in political speeches, the values and ideas constituting the Big Society was found. The Big Society is explained as a radical, yet compassionate agenda based on a redistributio

The study provided statistical evidence that size, profitability, industry, country, and audit firms have explanatory power regarding predicting and explaining corporate disclosure in Sweden and China. Moreover, ownership structure and foreign listing have shown limited explanatory power. It is further noticed that theories that are suitable for a phenomenon in Sweden might not necessary be so in

Nearly all maritime lawsuits start with arrest of ships or a threat of arrest, which makes the research on ship arrest regimes very meaningful. This thesis aims at carrying out a comparative analysis of the law of ship arrest in four jurisdictions, namely, the United Kingdom, United states， France and China. Two international conventions concerning the arrest of ships have been concluded one in 1

The focus of this project will be on democratic institutional design in Egypt following the 2011 revolution. Although important, little attention will necessarily be given to examining the challenges and prospects for democracy in post-Mubarak Egypt more broadly. The paper will proceed under the assumption that a stable, functioning democracy is a reasonable, and further, attainable system of poli

This paper examines potential determinants of banking and sovereign debt crises for the period 1970-2008 using a multivariate logit model. In addition, the paper analyzes links between these types of crises through conditional and unconditional probabilities. The empirical results for banking crises suggest that higher inflation and real interest rates increase the likelihood of a banking crisis,

The aim of this thesis is to investigate 3 following questions: 1) how do Thai female immigrants in Sweden negotiate their identities in Swedish society? 2) How do they perceive their identities in Swedish context? 3) To what extent, do gendered and racialized processes shape their identities and experiences of belonging? To answer these questions, I propose that the issue of Thai female immigrant