The health of the European workforce is a crucial issue as the share of old age people as well as the mean age increases, moreover the interest in the relation between health and productivity of busin

Diagnoses for psychiatric disorders such as ADHD and various depressive disorders are steadily climbing in Sweden and other developed nations. This is particularly worrisome in populations of school chil

Success factors for effective labour market projects

Success factors for effective labour market projects. A comparative study of fifteen Social Fund financed projects.Research report 2014/7, 96 p. For decades, the Swedish municipalities have had a major

Journal of Marriage and Family, Volume 79, Issue 2, pp. 419-436. Abstract Children of immigrant background, despite problems with acculturation, poverty, and discrimination, have better mental health th

The global population has increased dramatically since the year 1900 from approximately 1,6 billion to today's 8 billion. The UN estimates that world population will reach 11 billion by the year 2100.

Hydrogeology Journal 25(4) pp. 1077-1091, doi: 10.1007/s10040-016-1504-x Abstract This study developed methodology for statistically assessing groundwater contamination mechanisms. It focused on microbiahumanitarian aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières in 2010. The factors included hydrogeological settings, land use and socio-economic characteristics. The results showed that the residuals of a conventional probit regression model had a significant positive spatial autocorrelation (Moran’s I =3.05, I-stat = 9.28); therefore, a spatial model was developed that had better goodness-of-fit to the observations. The mostsignificant factor in this model (p-value 0.005) was the distance from a water source to the nearest Tukul area, an area with informal settlements that lack sanitation services. It is thus recommended that future remediation and monitoring efforts in the city be concentrated in such low-income regions. The spatial model differed from the conventional approach: in contrast with the latter case, lowland topography was not significant at the 5% level, as the p-value was 0.074 in the spatial model and 0.040 in the traditional model. This study showed that statistical risk-factor assessments of groundwater contamination need to consider spatial interactions when the water sources are located close to each other. Future studies might further investigate the cut-off distance that reflects spatial autocorrelation. Particularly, these results advise research on urban groundwater quality.

Creating happy animals in order to eat them: Jeff McMahan and Tim Campbell

In recent debates about the ethics of eating animals, some have advanced the claim that if people cause animals to exist and give them good lives in order to be able to eat them, then even if the anim

This paper will relate the worsened situation for low educated in general, and youth in particular, to two institutional factors: a changed organisation of vocational education in upper secondary scho

The aim of this study is to explore to what extent housing is a constraint for first births in Sweden 1972-2005. Three characteristics of housing are studied: housing type, tenure, and size of dwellin

The way the labour market functions is a crucial factor in any analysis of the Swedish model, but has all too often been described in theoretical terms. This paper examines the happenings behind the r