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Emigrasjon fra periferien i Sibir. Utvikling eller avvikling? En studie av migrasjonens effekter på perifere levebrød og steder.
(Master thesis, 2017-06-21)This master thesis is about the impacts of periphery-to-centre migration on families and places left behind. I have applied livelihood system theory as a framework to investigate the effects of migration as a livelihood ... -
Emphatic and Ecological Sounds in Gameworld Interfaces
(Chapter, 2017)This chapter discusses the weaknesses and strengths of the concepts and theories that are commonly used to understand game sound, and describes a gameplay-sensitive, ecological perspective based on the idea of gameworld ... -
The Empire Strikes Back. Historical Legacies and Democratic Political Culture in Ukraine
(Master thesis, 2018-06-16)This study investigates how Ukraine’s geographical patterns of democratic political culture are shaped by historical legacies from long defunct empires and states. The thesis’ focus is on what has been called a “natural ... -
Empirical Essays on Health and Aging
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-05-29)This thesis is composed of four chapters: One introductory chapter and three chapters that each include one of the three essays that make up the main body of the thesis. Common features of the essays are empirical assessments ... -
An Empirical Evaluation of Explanations for Political System Support
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The literature that examines cross-national satisfaction with democracy seeks to discover a set of predictors that are associated with evaluations of regime performance. The most common way of examining the determinants ... -
Empirisk testing av ein evolusjonær porteføljestrategi
(Master thesis, 2011-05-31)Denne oppgåva skal med utgangspunkt i "Portfolio managment without probability or statistics" (Flåm 2008) testa ut ein evolusjonær porteføljestrategi empirisk. Kan ein matematisk formel som ikkje blir oppdatert på bakgrunn ... -
Employees' Perception on the Impact of Work Environment on Job Performance: A Case of Bugiri Hospital in Uganda
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Employer Responses to Family Leave Programs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Search frictions make worker turnover costly to firms. A three-month parental leave expansion in Sweden provides exogenous variation that we use to quantify firms' adjustment costs upon worker absence. The reform increased ... -
Empowering locals through school governance: A case of secondary school boards in Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)This study has been an attempt to address to what extent school boards as one of the user committees in education system are empowered and effective in accomplishing their responsibilities. The study had four specific ... -
Empowerment and effectiveness of school committees in Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2010-05-31)Empowerment of local communities and establishment of appropriate local level institutional frameworks have recently become important tenets for education management in the developing countries. Tanzania is also sailing ... -
Empowerment and Poverty Alleviation: Effects on Targeting Women in Developing Countries
(Master thesis, 2009-12-01)In this thesis I assess the problems and solutions microfinance institutions face when entering a rural credit market characterized by information asymmetry and low degree of enforcement possibilities. Bangladesh and the ... -
Empowerment of School Committees and Parents in Tanzania: Delineating Existence of Opportunity, Its Use and Impact on School Decisions
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-12-05)Since the end of the twentieth century, public administration systems in developing countries have undergone significant transformation. This comes as a result of the global shift from centralized to decentralized political, ... -
En analyse av John Hughes i et sjanger- og auteurperspektiv
(Master thesis, 2012-12-02)Denne oppgaven analyserer filmskaper John Hughes i både et sjanger- og et auteurperspektiv. Det foretas en sjangeranalyse av de to filmene The Breakfast Club (1985) og Sixteen Candles (1984). The Breakfast Club oppfyller ... -
En analyse av tendenser i politisk journalistikk i Norge - belyst gjennom Juul- og Snøhvit-saken.
(Master thesis, 2003)Hvor kan den politiske presse i Norge sies å befinne seg per i dag? Med dette som grunnlag har jeg undersøkt og analysert sentrale og definerende sider ved den politiske journalistikken for bedre å kunne forstå hvilken ... -
"En annen forståelse av helsetiltak". Forarbeid til et studie av folkehelsepolitikk og transformasjonen av en bydel
(Master thesis, 2019-08-31)Denne teksten er skrevet som et forsøk på å finne ut hvordan jeg skulle undersøke det jeg identifiserer som et forhold mellom det norske folkehelsearbeidet og transformasjonen av en av Bergen kommunes bydeler. Studiet har ... -
"En annenrangs borger" - en kvalitativ studie av kvinnelige straffedømte sin tilbakeføringsprosess
(Master thesis, 2012-06-11)The main topic of this study is female convicts and theirperceptions and experiences related to the release and returnfrom incarceration and back to society. The Sentences Act from2001 states that the punishment should be ... -
En beskrivelse og sammenligning av to sosialpolitiske systemer
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En brikke i puslespillet - Strategiske aktørers vurderinger av trusler og sårbarheter
(Master thesis, 2022-11-21)This thesis seeks to gain an understanding regarding what threats and vulnerabilities strategic actors in the maritime domain see as most relevant, both towards themselves and more generally in society. A secondary research ... -
En casestudie om maktforhold i barnehagesektoren
(Master thesis, 2019-06-19)An analysis of the power relationship in the kindergarten sector as they appeared in the policy process on staff-norm in the kindergarten. Assessment of how contraction of power led to more conflict between actors at the ... -
En effektevaluering av ordningen med tidsbegrenset uførestønad
(Master thesis, 2013-08-22)Formålet med denne masteroppgaven har vært å evaluere ordningen med tidsbegrenset uførestønad. Ordningen ble innført i 2004 som et kortsiktig alternativ til varig uførepensjon, men avskaffet og avløst av arbeidsavklaringspenger ...