Author: Erika Wilhelmsson Title: The (un)changed views on youth unemployment- a critical discourse analysis of the job guarantee for young people [translated title] Supervisor: Frans Oddner Assessor: Anett Schenk There is currently disagreement about whether youth unemployment should be seen as a societal-, or individual problem, and from there also how youth unemployment should be solved. A job

The paper sheds light on financial contagion within the Euro Area and Asia, and contagion from the Euro Area to Asia during two recent crises: the global financial crisis and European sovereign debt crisis. Applying the multinomial logit regression model, the paper investigates how the macro-finance variables affect the coincidence of extreme negative returns (coexceedances). In addition, I apply

This thesis will critically analyze the extent of inclusion and exclusion among young children of immigrants from Mexico to the the United States in the California Early Childhood Education System (ECE), commonly referred to as preschool. It will analyze inclusion based on the public ECE program, Head Start. Using secondary analysis, it studies how Head Start has been successful in promoting inclu

Med den digitala utvecklingen har varumärkesinnehavarens kontroll över vad som berättas om varumärket minskat. Vem som helst med uppkoppling till internet kan idag skapa och dela med sig av sin egen varumärkesberättelse. När varumärkesinnehavaren öppnar upp för att inkludera konsumenten i varumärkesbyggandet, bland annat på sociala medier, samskapar de gemensamt varumärkets mening. Studien visar aThe digital evolution has led to a decrease in the brand owner’s control of the stories that are being told about the brand. Anyone who is connected to the web can today create and share their own brand stories. When the brand owner includes the consumer in the brand buiding process, i.e. in social media, they co-create the brand meaning. This study shows that the consumer’s brand narratives deriv

Credit risk arises in almost all financial activities. One way to hedge and trade risk is to use Credit Default Swaps that act like an insurance against credit events. The value of the CDS is related to the probability of the reference entity defaulting. In this paper we aimed to determine how well the variables implied by the Merton model explain the CDS spread. A panel data study of 16 companies

Studiens syfte är att genom en fallstudie på en offentlig förvaltning beskriva på vilket sätt mellanchefers arbete med balanced scorecard bidrar till att skapa en länk mellan ledningens vision och den operativa verksamheten. Studien är av kvalitativ karaktär och har genomförts i form av en fallstudie inom en förvaltning i en kommunal verksamhet. Empirin har samlats in via djupintervjuer med nio me

In this study the question is raised of how environmental inspections can improve the way excavated materials are handled, from the beginning to the end. The goal of this study is to see how regulatory authorities can contribute to make sure that the excavated materials end up where it is supposed to and to see if they are possible to re-use excavated soil. The Swedish Environmental Protection Age

Många forskare lyfter fram fenomenet att gränserna mellan intern och extern kommunikation suddas ut. Det är däremot tämligen outforskat vad detta får för betydelse för organisationers kommunikation, vilket denna studie tar avstamp i. Ett exempel är att medarbetare genom dagens kommunikationsmöjligheter kan lyfta en organisations interna sakfrågor i digitala diskussionsarenor. Syftet med uppsatsen Many researchers express that the boundaries between internal and external communication are being blurred. However, since few studies suggest what communicative implications this has for organizations, our study explores a highly under investigated topic. One way in which the blurring of boundaries is expressed is that employees can bring forth internal organizational issues in online issue arena

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) kan ge ökad konkurrenskraft och är i många fall avgörande för tillverkande företags överlevnad på sikt. Systemet medför dock stora investeringar, vilka har visat sig vara svåra att rättfärdiga. MES-implementationen har av den anledningen visat sig kunna dröja vilket kan medföra förlorade affärsmöjligheter för företaget. Syftet med studien är att vara ett stöd

When it comes to reading, there are rather large differences between boys and girls in skill and frequency, and these differences have persisted for decades. For the last few years I have sensed an increasingly negative image of boys and men in the ”public conversation”. What to read is a matter of personal choice, yet this personal choice is, in this conversation, connected to war, men’s violence

In the aftermath of 9/11, a heightened development of security provisions within the United States of America (US) has been observed. This thesis seeks to study how these security provisions have influenced the process of a securitization of migration and the conceptualization of migrants within the US. This research paper applies Foucault’s notion of biopower to study this issue by examining risk

There is a growing interest in and demand for supervision to support professional development in human service organizations. This study focused on clinical group supervision provided by social workers in health care to employees at a university hospital in southern Sweden. The aim of the study was to examine the relation between the significance of supervision to the employees, when it comes to d

Many actors in the construction sector as well as in the research community emphasize the importance of experience feedback and knowledge building in order to streamline and improve the working methods. Taking advantage of positive experiences, sharing them with colleagues and documenting them within the organisation can be useful for future projects. On the other hand, negative experiences should

Dagens universitet står inför en allt högre konkurrens om studenter både nationellt och inter-nationellt. Behovet av varumärkning av högre utbildning har således blivit allt större. Univer-siteten måste därför arbeta med att särskilja sig från mängden för att kunna locka studenter och medarbetare till sig. Inom den traditionella varumärkesforskningen har fokus förflyttats från ett produktorientera

The aim of this study was to use case study approach to show educators that identities of immigrant students are complex, and a response to the dominant culture. The cases were four immigrant students in grades 8 to 10 in Iceland. Through interviews, and observations, data was gathered on how the students construct their identities in the school con-text, with a focus on teachers’ expectations. Th

Problemområde: Tryckskador efter operation är ett stort problem både för den enskilda patienten och för sjukvården. Syfte: Undersöka hur operationsteamet uppfattar sitt arbete kring tryckskadeprevention samt vilka hinder och möjligheter som finns för att följa befintliga riktlinjer. Metod: Kvalitativ intervjustudie där 15 intervjuer med olika medlemmar av operationsteamet genomförde och analyserad

The aim of this master’s thesis, as suggested by the title, is to study the usage of film in cultural history exhibitions. The subject arouse from queries such as: why are films so often included in cultural history exhibitions? And what do the films provide the visitors with? The thesis sees a distinct difference between the use of film in cultural history museums and the use of film in art museu

Datering med accelerator? Måhända låter det otympligt, men när det handlar om att datera med hjälp av sällsynta slag av grundämnen kan varje atom räknas. Då handlar det om att kunna räkna enskilda atomer, vilket är möjligt med acceleratorbaserad masspektrometri, AMS. Lunds Universitet har en accelerator anpassad just för den här sortens mätningar, vilken främst nyttjas av institutionerna för fysiFor decades, accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) has been used for radiocarbon dating. The background of this technique is outlined along with an in-depth look at the graphitization process used to prepare samples for AMS analysis. The technology necessary to achieve the vacuum quality needed in graphitization and accelerator mass spectrometry is discussed as well. The graphitization system belong

Bloggen som fenomen har de senaste åren blivit en allt mer populär kanal för in-divider att uttrycka sina åsikter genom. Den används även i allt större utsträckning som huvudsaklig kommunikationskanal för personliga varumärken. Vår undersökning syftar till att identifiera vilka likheter respektive skill-nader det finns i arbetsstrategierna mellan ett corporate brand och ett personligt varumärke Blogs as channel for expression has become more popular the recent years. What also is becoming more commonly occurring is the usage of blogs as communication channel for personal brands. In this paper we have studied how strategies for strong corporate brands are ap-plicable on personal brands with the blog as a main channel. We have been doing a qualitative research by interweaving five differ