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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Childbearing outside of marriage has increased drastically in recent decades. However, the existing explanations for this development are not coherent. Proponents of the Second Demographic Transition framework view the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)This study explores individual and contextual explanations of why some people perceive themselves as being mobile and others do not. While subjective social position in recent decades has become an important topic of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)The recent growth in contract farming schemes particularly in developing countries has sparked controversy over its economic and welfare impacts on participating smallholders. This has given rise to a body of literature ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)In light of a series of wage freezes over the past 6 years and negative changes to the teaching profession, alongside a major overhaul to their curriculum, the teachers of North Carolina are understandably distraught, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)The structure of this thesis is fourfold, yet intrinsically intertwined. Firstly, it identifies and examines in detail Jamaica’s strong and highly identifiable worldwide image and symbolic narrative. On the one hand, Jamaica ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)Klimakrisen kan sies å være vår tids største utfordring. Hele samfunnet, inkludert luftfart, er nødt til å redusere klimagassutslippene dersom irreversible klimaendringer skal forhindres. Som miljøverstinger, øker presset ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2005)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)In South Kivu in Eastern DR Congo, various church actors have chosen to involve in advocacy and mobilisation through a formalised civil society structure known as La Société Civile (SC). In this chapter, we explore the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Abstract Extant research on the gender pay gap suggests that men and women who do the same work for the same employer receive similar pay, so that processes sorting people into jobs are thought to account for the vast ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2003)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)Denne oppgaven handler om hvordan ungdom tar i bruk steder i drabantby, og hvilken mening som knyttes opp til disse stedene. Mitt utgangspunkt for studien er en av drabantbyene i Oslo, Grorud. Valg av sted er gjort på ...
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Women in management, and differences in family situation : evidence from the Norwegian bank-sector (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)This thesis is written in the field of labor market research. I am doing research on the bank sector in Norway, from 1979 to 1996. This is a sector where many employees have specialized education. This makes it interesting ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)ABSTRACT When economic structures fail to provide wage opportunities, women must rely on their own initiatives for generating incomes. More and more, women are drawn and driven to the creation and management of their own ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)This thesis examines experiences of WOC in leadership positions in Norway, and explores whether there may be a double glass ceiling or not. It uses theories such as Matrix of Oppressions by Patricia Hill Collins and Social ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)Women poverty debate has been part of the global poverty debates since the 1970s. Many research reports and publication on poverty reveals that women are disproportionary poorer than men (Jazairy et al 1992, World Bank ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article reviews the empirical literature on women’s empowerment through electricity access and the methodologies that have been used. Statistical studies have looked at areas with access to the grid and measured the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)Denne studien undersøker hvordan korrupsjon i norsk næringsliv fremstilles i norsk media. Tre aspekter står i fokus: representasjoner av steder, korrupsjon og næringslivsaktører. Oppgavens teoretiske hovedvekt ligger på ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background A sizeable body of research has demonstrated a relationship between organizational change and increased sickness absence. However, fewer studies have investigated what factors might mitigate this relationship. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)Marxist theories have for a long time been grappling with the question of the international solidarity among workers. This thesis revises the argument put forward especially in neo-Marxist theories of imperialism about the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)In 2013 Nicaragua was granted funding to start preparations for a national REDD+ strategy. REDD+, reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation in developing countries , is a global climate mitigation ...