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Fletta eftir sviði "School of Social Sciences (UI)"
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(Viðskiptafræðideild og hagfræðideild Háskóla Íslands, viðskiptafræðideild Háskólans í Reykjavík og Seðlabanki Íslands., 2016)The marketing of electricity is an increasingly significant issue following the liberalization of electricity markets. Substantial emphasis has been placed on green electricity, but the concept is vague to many consumers. In this paper, the focus is ... -
(SAGE Publications, 2018-05-29)Aims: This research was designed to explore the extent to which the use of alcohol or drugs by one member of a family affects the psychosocial state of other family members. The study asks whether family members of substance abusers are more likely ...
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(SAGE Publications, 2018-04)This article presents a study of desired leadership behavior in the educational sector in Iceland. This sector has been undergoing major challenges during recent years, including restructuring and mergers of schools, strikes of teachers’ professional ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics, 2023-09)Despite the avowed aims of Icelandic welfare policies to provide services in a family-centred manner, parents commonly express their experiences of fragmented services that are offered more on the terms of the service providers than the families. ...
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(Viðskiptafræðideild og hagfræðideild Háskóla Íslands, viðskiptafræðideild Háskólans í Reykjavík og Seðlabanki Íslands., 2016)We study Iceland’s experience with capital controls, in particular whether changes in the central bank’s policy rate affected the exchange rate under the capital control regime from 2009 to 2015.We find that both actual changes and unexpected changes ...
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(Stofnun stjórnsýslufræða og stjórnmála við Háskóla Íslands, 2017-06-16)Several economic models predict that effort may decline as retirement approaches. These models are reviewed and data from the University of Iceland used to measure how research productivity of members of staff depends on age. We find support for the ...
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(Informa UK Limited, 2018-10-18)There is increased emphasis on donor engagement in the world’s poorest and most fragile states, but aid modalities tend to differ depending on the recipient countries’ governance. In fragile states, donors often bypass governments and collaborate with ...
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(Duke University Press, 2016)“Nature” and “social life” tended to be separated by Enlightenment thinkers, setting the stage for a long-standing tension between geology and social-cultural theory. Such a division suppressed the liveliness that humans have often attributed to material ...
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(Stofnun stjórnsýslufræða og stjórnmála við Háskóla Íslands, 2017-12-14)This article explores the working conditions of Icelandic local councillors in relation to voluntary retirement from the council. In the past three elections, the turnover in councils has been very high, with approximately six out of every 10 council ...
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(Springer Nature, 2017-05-23)Previous research has found a positive short-term relationship between the 2008 collapse and hypertension in Icelandic males. With Iceland's economy experiencing a phase of economic recovery, an opportunity to pursue a longer-term analysis of the ...
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(Elsevier BV, 2019-04)The study presents the first systematic review of the existing literature on Arctic ES. Applying the Search, Appraisal, Synthesis and Analysis (SALSA) and snowballing methods and three selection criteria, 33 publications were sourced, including ...
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(Viðskiptafræðideild og hagfræðideild Háskóla Íslands, viðskiptafræðideild Háskólans í Reykjavík og Seðlabanki Íslands, 2017-06-30)Foreign tourism has expanded very fast in Iceland in recent years. Much of this tourism targets relatively few places of particular natural beauty. This has resulted in two notable external effects; deterioration of some of the natural features of ...
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(Viðskiptafræðideild og hagfræðideild Háskóla Íslands, viðskiptafræðideild Háskólans í Reykjavík og Seðlabanki Íslands, 2017-12-19)Þessi grein fjallar um þróun tónlistarlífs á Íslandi á undanförnum árum. Margir íslenskir tónlistarmenn hafa átt velgengi að fagna og skapað sér nafn á alþjóðlegum markaði. Stjórnvöld hafa stutt við þróunina á ýmsan hátt og þau hafa mikil áhrif á ...
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(Viðskiptafræðideild og hagfræðideild Háskóla Íslands, viðskiptafræðideild Háskólans í Reykjavík og Seðlabanki Íslands., 2016)Markmið greinarinnar er að kynna rannsókn á því hvernig íslensk orkufyrirtæki standa að yfirfærslu þekkingar eldri starfsmanna til þeirra yngri áður en þeir fyrrnefndu hætta störfum. Efnið hefur lítið verið rannsakað hér á landi og er rannsókninni ætlað ...
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(Stofnun stjórnsýslufræða og stjórnmála við Háskóla Íslands, 2017-06-16)Á Íslandi hefur það gjarnan verið trú fólks að félagslegur og efnahagslegur jöfnuður einkenni þjóðina og að hvers konar elítur séu lítt áberandi. Engu að síður eru vísbendingar um að elítur séu til staðar, og ennfremur að þær séu styrkjast og ójöfnuður ...
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(Springer Nature, 2017-03-08)Background: The article explores the significance of abundant geothermal resources Icelanders enjoy, the comfort of inexpensively heated homes and easily accessible year-round public spaces where young and old can gather irrespective of social standing, ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Social Science, Faculty of Économics, 2021-06)This thesis consists of three chapters on the economics of international fisheries management. The first chapter explores the economic and biological effects of exploiter and species interactions in a multinational and multispecies fishery. The ...
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(Elsevier BV, 2020-07)Alternative fuels have been proposed to ensure compliance with the increasingly more stringent emission standards proposed by the International Maritime Organization. In addition, the Icelandic government aims to introduce 10% renewable energy into the ...
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(Informa UK Limited, 2015-10-02)This discussion stresses that looking at countries on the margins of European colonial rule can be useful when considering the wider dynamics of the present, reflecting the persistence of colonial discourses and how racism “endures”. Iceland’s colonial ...
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(Informa UK Limited, 2017-01)This article integrates the employment strain model with the social stress model in order to reveal the mechanisms that explain the relation between precarious employment and mental well-being. This model is applied to the case of temporary agency ...
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