abstract: This dissertation consists of two essays. The first measures the degree to which schooling accounts for differences in industry value added per worker. Using a sample of 107 economies and seven industries, the paper considers the patterns in the education levels of various industries and their relative value added per worker. Agriculture has notably less schooling and is less productive than other sectors, while a group of services including financial services, education and health care has higher rates of schooling and higher value added per worker. The essay finds that in the case of these specific industries education is important in explaining sector differences, and the role of education all other industries are less defined. The second essay provides theory to investigate the relationship between agriculture and schooling. During structural transformation, workers shift from the agriculture sector with relatively low schooling to other sectors which have more schooling. This essay explores to what extent changes in the costs of acquiring schooling drive structural transformation using a multi-sector growth model which includes a schooling choice. The model is disciplined using cross country data on sector of employment and schooling constructed from the IPUM International census collection. Counterfactual exercises are used to determine how much structural transformation is accounted for by changes in the cost of acquiring schooling. These changes account for small shares of structural transformation in all economies with a median near zero. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Economics 2011

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Problem: Idag påverkas företagen av tryck utifrån av sina intressenter vilket gör att de måste ta ett större ansvar för att legitimera sig. Olika branscher har varit med om olika skandaler och blivit uppmärksammade på olika sätt. Kan detta leda till att branscher utvecklas olika i sitt ansvarstagande för hållbarhet?Syfte: Syftet med studien är att undersöka om olika branscher i Sveriges näringsliv har utvecklats olika emot ett hållbart samhälle och därmed att beskriva hur långt deras ansvarsområden sträcker sig i årsredovisningar och hållbarhetsredovisningar. Mer specifikt undersöka branschernas ansvar inom ekonomi, miljö och socialt.Forskningsfråga: Vilka skillnader finns det mellan branschernas ansvarstagande inom hållbarhet idag?Forskningsdesign: För att besvara vår forskningsfråga använde vi oss av en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av företagens hållbarhetsrapporter och årsredovisningar. Vi utför en tvärsnittsstudie av tre branscher med tre företag i varje bransch. Branscherna är Textil-, livsmedel- och finansbranschen.Slutsatser: Sammanfattningsvis kan man se att det finns skillnader mellan branscherna. Textilbranschen visade på störst ansvar när man jämförde alla kategorier. Medan livsmedelsbranschen och finansbranschen visade på ett mindre ansvar i förhållande till textilbranschen. När vi sedan ser till varje kategori kan man urskilja var skillnaderna ligger. I den ekonomiska kategorin fanns en stor likhet och inga skillnader kunde identifieras. Inom kategorin för miljö visade textilbranschen ett betydligt större ansvar i förhållande till de övriga branscherna. Kategorin för det sociala ansvaret var betydligt mer omfattande och de olika branscherna utmärkte sig olika mycket i de olika underkategorierna. Inom alla underkategorier visade det sig att Livsmedelsbranschen tog ett mer jämnt ansvar. I anställningsförhållanden och arbetsvillkor utmärkte sig finansbranschen och vidare visade textilbranschen på ett stort ansvar inom mänskliga rättigheter. / Problem: Today’s businesses are affected by the pressure from the outside, by their stakeholders. This allows them to take greater responsibility for legitimacy. Different industries have been involved in various scandals and have received attention different ways. Could this lead to industries developing differently in their social responsibilities for sustainability?Purpose: The purpose of the study is to investigate whether various industries of the Swedish economy has developed differently to a sustainable society and thus to describe how far their responsibilities extend in annual reports and sustainability reports. More specifically investigate various industries responsibilities in regards to economic, environmental and social aspects.Research question: What differences exist between the industries' responsibility in sustainability today?Research Design: To answer our research question, we used a qualitative content analysis of corporate sustainability reports and annual reports. We carry out a cross-sectional study of three industries with three companies in each industry. The industries are textile, food and the finance industry.Conclusions: In summary, one can see that there are differences between industries in the whole. The textile industry showed the greatest responsibility when comparing all the categories. While the food industry and the financial industry showed a minor responsibility in relation to the textile industry. When you look at each category we can distinguish where the differences lie. In the economic category, there was a great similarity and no differences could be identified. Within the category of environment the textile industry showed a much greater responsibility in relation to the other industries. The category of social responsibility was much more extensive and the various industries stood out very different in the different subcategories. In all subcategories, it turned out that the food industry took a more evenly responsibility. In terms of employment and working conditions distinguished the financial industry and the textile industry showed great responsibility in human rights.

本研究欲探討兩岸銀行業公司治理與經營績效之關聯性，使用資料包絡分析法及交叉效率分析比較2008至2013年兩岸銀行業的經營績效。根據本研究實證結果顯示：兩岸銀行業確實分屬不同效率前緣，且中國銀行業業之技術效率優於台灣銀行業之技術效率。但金融海嘯後台灣在規模效率上進步，顯著超過中國。在公司治理機制與經營績效關聯性分析中，顯示兩岸因制度性的差異上，使得公司治理變數與經營績效之關聯性幾乎完全相反。在政府持股率與經營績效關聯性上，雖然都不顯著，但中國係數為正，台灣為負，說明兩岸政府對企業的影響力是有所差異。獨立董事比例與純粹技術效率是唯一兩岸都顯著之變數，但中國為顯著負相關而台灣為顯著正相關。研究結果顯示兩岸在公司治理實務與經營績效有很大的差異。 / The purpose of this paper tries to make a cross strait comparison between corporate governance and efficiency performance in banking industry. We apply data envelopment analysis and cross efficiency frontier analysis to measure and compare the performance of banking industry between Taiwan and China from 2008 to 2013. The empirical results reveal that Taiwan and China indeed have different efficiency frontier, and the cross frontier analysis suggests that the efficiency performance of China is much better than that of Taiwan. However, the scale efficiency of Taiwan had a better performance than that of China after financial crisis. Due to system difference, the cross strait comparison of corporate governance between efficiency performances denotes that Taiwan and China almost have opposite effects. China indicates a positive coefficient between bank’s stock holding ratio by government and efficiency performances. On the other hand, Taiwan indicates a negative coefficient, although both are statistically insignificant. The result suggests that the political power has a contrary influence for Taiwan and China. The percentage of independent directors is the only variable that statistically significant with pure technical efficient on both sides. However, which is negative coefficient associated with China, but positive coefficient associated with Taiwan. Therefore, we can conclude that the corporate governance practices have opposite influence on efficiency performance between Taiwan and China.