Sökning: "Demography"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 160 uppsatser innehållade ordet Demography.

1. 16. The Individualised Swedish Pension System: A qualitative study on foreign-born women's retirement planning

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Författare :Arvid Söderström; [2022]
   Nyckelord :The Swedish pension system; Retirement planning; Economic demography; Foreign-born women; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : The Swedish pension reform in the 1990s introduced several individualistic features and a debate has emerged on the implications of the structure and if policymakers behind the reform had unrealistic assumptions on economic behaviour. Given the potential negative implications of the current structure and the projections on how foreign-born women is at risk of receiving future low pensions, a qualitative study was done focusing on the individual reflections on how some foreign-born women perceive their future retirement and how they navigate when making pension-related decisions. LÄS MER

3. 17. The efficiency of Hyndman-Ullah methods in case of populations with abnormal short-term increases of mortality rates due to wars and pandemics.

   Master-uppsats, Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

   Författare :Teo Raspudić; [2022]
   Nyckelord :;

   Sammanfattning : This report is written with the goal of analyzing the efficiency of the Hyndman-Ullah (HU) and weighted Hyndman-Ullah (wHU) methods when working with the populations that suffered higher mortalities due to the wars and pandemics. Accordingly, the HU and wHU methods are applied to the training sets containing outlying years. LÄS MER

4. 18. The relationship between age structure and entrepreneurship in Sweden

   Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Författare :Christoffer Lindqvist; Tews Michael; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Demography; Age Structure; Aging; Entrepreneurship; Technology Entrepreneurship; Sweden;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis we investigate the scarcely analyzed relationship between entrepreneurial activity in the form of company start-ups in Sweden and age demographics. Using a panel data set with data from all 21 Swedish regions from 1989 to 2019, we test what impact different age groups have on the number of start-ups in Sweden. LÄS MER

5. 19. The Effect of Changing Gender Roles on Fertility-An analysis of two European country groups

   Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Författare :Pauline Bode; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Gender equality; fertility; housework division; Gender revolution; gender egalitarian attitudes; demography; Business and Economics;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to test the effect of changing gender roles on fertility. Previous literature has suggested that moving towards gender equality in the household sphere can increase fertility. I test whether a more equal division of housework or gender-egalitarian attitudes affect fertility. LÄS MER

7. 20. Demography of Birch Populations across Scandinavia

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Växtekologi och evolution; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning

   Författare :Janek Sendrowski; [2022]
   Nyckelord :birch; betula; pubescens; pendula; betula pubescens; betula pendula; silver birch; downy birch; demography; population structure; distribution of fitness effects; DFE; dadi; UMAP; PCA; ADMIXTURE; polyDFE; ice age; glaciation; tree; boreal forest; climate change; adaption; tetraploid; diploid-tetraploid introgression; Scandinavia; genetic cluster; pipeline; snakemake; bioinformatics; reproducible; population genetics; postglacial population expansion; demographic history; FEEMS; site-frequency spectrum; SFS; last glacial maximum; LGM; workflow; python; population expansion; population growth; EST-SFS; 0-fold degenerate; 4-fold degenerate; maximum likelihood estimation; MLE; variant call format; VCF; single-nucleotide polymorphism; SNP;

   Sammanfattning : Boreal forests are particularly vulnerable to climate change, experiencing a much more drastic increase in temperatures and having a limited amount of more northern refugia. The trees making up these vast and important ecosystems already had to adapt previously to environmental pressures brought about by the repeated glaciations during past ice ages. LÄS MER