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• How bright are the Nordic Lights? : job quality trends in Nordic countries in a comparative perspective 

  Mustosmäki, Armi (University of Jyväskylä, 2017)

  Nordic countries stand out from the rest of the Europe in terms of job quality. Comparative research literature sought to explain the distinctiveness of Nordic countries with diverse sets of institutional frameworks. ...

• Marketisation of care within the Nordic context: Private care provision for older people in Finland 

  Mathew Puthenparambil, Jiby (2019)

  This dissertation focuses on the ongoing development in the use of private so- cial care services for older people in Finland by asking the following questions at two levels. (1) At the municipality level, to what extent ...

• Cross-country comparisons of trends in adolescent psychosomatic symptoms : a Rasch analysis of HBSC data from four Nordic countries 

  Hagquist, Curt; Due, Pernille; Torsheim, Torbjørn; Välimaa, Raili (BioMed Central, 2019)

  Background To analyse the psychometric properties of the HBSC Symptom Checklist (HBSC-SCL) on psychosomatic symptoms with a focus on the operating characteristics of the items, and on the impacts of measurement distortions ...

• China's rhetoric and soft power towards the Portuguese-speaking countries : the case of Angola 

  Tavares Martins, Nuno (2014)

  The thesis analyses China’s foreign policy towards the Portuguese-speaking countries, particularly the case of Angola. The People’s Republic of China has been putting great emphasis on the relations with other developing ...

• Diverse histories, common ground and a shared future: the education of career guidance and counselling professionals in the Nordic countries 

  Andreassen, Inga H.; Einarsdóttir, Sif; Lerkkanen, Jukka; Thomsen, Rie; Wikstrand, Frida (Springer Netherlands, 2019)