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- de Luna, Xavier, 1968-, et al.
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Can adult education delay retirement from the Labour Market?
- 2008
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Several studies have suggested that education is associated with later retirement from the labour market. In this paper, we examine whether adult education, involving enrolees aged 42 or above, delays retirement to potentially increase labour force participation among the elderly. With Swedish register data of transcripts from adult education and an-nual earnings, which encompasses 1979-2004 and 1982-2004 respectively, we exploit the fact that adult education is a large-scale phenomenon in Sweden and construct a measure of the timing of the transition from being self-supported by productive work to being supported by pension transfers. We match samples of treated and controls on the propen-sity score and use non-parametric estimation of survival rates. The results indicate that adult education has no effect on the timing of the retirement from the labour force. This can be contrasted with the fact that adult education is one of the cornerstones of the OECD strategy for “active ageing” and the European Union’s “Lisbon strategy” for growth and jobs.
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- Lindhé, Cecilia, 1973-
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Visuella vändningar : Bild och estetik i Kerstin Ekmans romankonst
- 2008
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is a dissertation on how an aesthetics of fiction is formulated at the intersection of, and oscillation between, image-construction and image-criticism in three novels by Kerstin Ekman: En stad av ljus (1983), Händelser vid vatten (1993), and Gör mig levande igen (1996). The purpose of the dissertation is to analyze the movement of this oscillation and demonstrate how it is intertwined, not only with the aesthetic practice characterizing these novels, but also with their interpretation of the past and the contemporary. Kerstin Ekman’s oeuvre formulates a criticism of images and their various representational forms (for example paintings, photographs, the images of virtual reality), while integrating different media’s aesthetic expressions by theme and narrative technique. Occasionally, images are represented as deserving credence, as possible to describe in words, but also with a faith in their power to animate or recreate the past, capture the moment and freeze time. But as often as being utilized as tools for creation, images are employed for careful aim of the critique of civilization that characterizes Ekman’s entire body of work. The tension between image-construction and image-criticism is intimately connected to the issues that at their core are bound up with the relation between verbal art and visual art which constitutes a fundamental trait of Ekman’s aesthetic practice. In addition to novels in various genres, Ekman has also worked with film, computer programming and hypertext. The interplay with other media is an important building block of Ekman’s fiction, and the classical opposition between verbal and visual arts is figured foremost through the camera, the film camera, and the computer. The dissertation also examines Ekman’s early fiction, from her debut novel, the detective story 30 meter mord (1959), to Mörker och blåbärsris (1972), and introduces the hypertext Hotagens minne (2006) and the computer game Rymdresa (1991).
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