Sammanfattning I december 2010 trädde etableringsreformen i kraft. Detta innebar att ansvaret för integrationen av nyanlända flyttades från kommun till Arbetsförmedling. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur handläggare på Arbetsförmedlingen upplevde etableringsreformen. Syftet var även att undersöka de svårigheter som handläggarna möter i implementering av den nya reformen. Denna kvalitatAbstract In December of 2010, a settlement reform by the name of Etableringsreformen was implemented in Sweden. This meant that the main responsibility for integration of newly arrived immigrants was moved from the municipality to the unemployment agency - Arbetsförmedlingen. The purpose of this study was to investigate what the administrators at the employment agency think about the settlement r

Following the European sovereign debt crisis and the detrimental consequences this had for the European financial markets, Europe found itself at a crossroads, with an uncertain future ahead. As the choice was between fragmentation of the Member States or embarking on a journey almost as meaningful as a common currency, the 28 Member States decided on further integration, thereby establishing join

Dealing with Homeless Families – a matter of child perspective and discretion. The aim of this study was to examine social workers' discussion about the child perspective in dealing with acute homelessness. Semi-structured interviews were made with help of three social workers in the homelessness sector. The main subject was the workers' ability to use a child perspective when finding home

Vardagliga ting, så som detta papper, är sammanställt av vanlig materia. Det vi ser med våra ögon och genom teleskop när vi tittar upp mot stjärnorna är också sammanställt utav vanlig materia. Det visar sig att denna materia endast fyller vårt kända universum till 5 %. Resten kallas för Mörk Materia och Mörk Energi, där den föregående fyller universum med 27 % och den snarare till 68 %. Mörk MaterIn this thesis, I present a case where Dark Matter subhalos would annihilate at some stage in their lifetime. The implication of this scenario could potentially aid the Missing Satellites and the Cusp-Core density profile problem. The Dark Matter particles’ annihilation process and effective “friction” lead to an energy and momentum loss into radiation and hence to the destabilization of the Dark

The purpose with this study was to investigate how the relationship looks between unaccompanied minors and their parents in another country. The emphasis is on how personnel and superintendents, who works at an institutional home-care in Sweden are reasoning and working to encourage the relation between minors and their parents. The investigation is made with a qualitative method, where I have con

Valutakursrisk har historiskt hanterats med negativt korrelerad eller okorrelerade instrument för att minska den totala risken i en portfölj. Som ett resultat av en integrerad värld har sådana instrument blivit allt mer sällsynta. Råvaror såsom guld har påvisat ett negativt samband och mycket av den bakomliggande teorin i uppsatsen är därför starkt relaterad till guldet. Digitala valutor är ett nyExchange rate risk has historically been dealt with through negatively correlated or uncorrelated instruments in order to reduce the overall risk in a portfolio. As a result of an integrated world, such instruments have become increasingly rare. Commodities such as gold have demonstrated a negative relationship, therefore much of the underlying theory in this thesis is strongly related to gold. Di

Öresund is a very dynamic economic area with numerous projects, there is a great need of a deeper understanding of the wave climate. The wave measurements currently available are scarce and they do not cover the whole area. For this reason, a modeled wave climate would be of interest and the results could be a starting point for different in depth analysis. The objective of this study was to prod

Using a panel of 18 European OECD countries over the period 1979-2011, this paper re-examines and extends previous empirical evidence on the effects of minority government on fiscal policy outcomes. First government primary balance is separated into revenues and expenditure according to Kontopoulos and Perotti (1999). Second minority governments are categorized into dummy variables according to Ed

The persistently high annual numbers of rape in Sweden and numerous legal amendments following internal critique, prove the legal response to be ineffective for the subjects of the protection of the law. Viewed in combination with the prevalence of detrimental conceptions of sexuality and rape, this actualizes questions regarding the potential for and shape of influences on the decision-making act

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the volatility dynamics of housing markets in the United Kingdom and the United States in order to determine if market inefficiencies cause downward rigidity in housing prices. We hypothesize that the potential downward rigidity will prevent prices from appropriately adjusting downwards, and that positive shocks in housing prices will increase the conditiona

The quality of piped drinking water in Maputo is generally poor and it affects many people, in particular the poor living in areas with inadequate or insufficient water distribution systems. In Mozambique, the chemical disinfectant, Certeza (containing diluted sodium hypochlorite), is used to treat domestic water at the consumers’ end. It is well known that chlorine products used for disinfection

This thesis examines income-related health inequalities among an elderly population over time in Sweden. The concentration indices are estimated and decomposed for two time periods in order to uncover which socioeconomic variables determine the level of health inequality in Sweden. The determinants of health are estimated using a panel data fixed effects model, hence allowing for a comparison of h

This paper will analyse the financial relationship between private and public health insurance in Australia. Private health insurance in Australia is both highly regulated and subsidised with the argument often being it provides support for the universal public system. With private health insurance providing duplicate insurance in Australia, I present a theoretical analysis of how the private and

In 2013, the EU established a Common European Asylum System in order to harmonize the asylum laws throughout Europe. One of the directives in this common system is a revised version of the Reception Conditions Directive from 2003, establishing rules for housing, clothing and food for the asylum applicants. The directive from 2003 should be in place in all Member States of the EU and on the 21st of

Mångfald är ett begrepp som på senaste åren har visat sig vanligt förekommet i rekryterings- och arbetslivssammanhang. Det finns många anledningar till att mångfald hamnat i fokus på Svenska arbetsplatser idag. Bland annat har den ökade globaliseringen tillsammans med amerikansk forskning och dess positiva resultat varit inspiration för införandet av ett mångfaldstänkande i Sverige. Genom olika må

Science fiction is a genre in which anything is possible. It therefore comprises the perfect litmus test of any given culture’s prevailing hopes and fears about the future. One such source of anxiety that has been particularly conspicuous in works of fiction since the Industrial Revolution is the development of automata and other machines – specifically, whether they might eventually become strong

En studie över havres köldtoleranta proteiner När vintern kommer får djur och människor tjockare päls eller byter till varmare kläder. Det kan inte växter göra! De måste anpassa sig genom att ändra vilka molekyler som uttrycks. Proteiner är en slags molekyl som kan göra växter mer motståndskraftiga mot kylan. Havre kan anpassa sig till kallt klimat, men olika sorter är mer eller mindre köldtåligaThe aim of this project was to answer the question “Which proteins are responsible for cold tolerance in crown samples from oat?” Proteins were extracted from cold treated oat crown samples, purified with gel electrophoresis, trypsinated through in-gel digestion and identified in LTQ orbitrap mass spectrometer. Data interpretation involved analysis of found proteins according to functional annotat

Rapid economic growth and rising income levels have driven private vehicle sales in China. Within just three decades, China has developed to the world’s largest automobile market. This thesis aims at determining the factors which affect passenger vehicle populations in Chinese cities. An OLS regression using cross-sectional data reveals that large variations exist across cities in eastern, central

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur patienter upplevde deltagandet i en gruppbaserad behandling kallad RAINBOW. RAINBOW är en psykosocial behandlingsmodell för ungdomar med bipolär sjukdom och deras föräldrar. Halvstrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med fyra ungdomar som tidigare deltagit i behandling enligt RAINBOW-modellen. Intervjumaterialet analyserades med hjälp av grundad teori viThe aim of this study was to explore patients’ experiences of having participated in a group treatment called RAINBOW. RAINBOW is a psychosocial treatment for adolescents with bipolar disorder and their parents. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four adolescents who previously had participated in RAINBOW. Grounded theory was used to analyze the data and six main themes were identified