We measure policy uncertainty for three small open economies and show how indices can capture important historical events, both local events such as referendums certain general elections, well global financial crises. By employing the methodology of Baker et al. (2016), we construct Scandinavian countries: Norway, Denmark Sweden. find that increased at home in world’s largest economy, US, leads...

This article is the first of four articles exploring democratic schools co-founded by teenage students in Norway and Sweden. Our larger project explores relationship between democracy education educational dialogism. Both dialogism are partially rooted idea that should be a personal meaning-making practice where participants can create organize their lives ways make sense to them explore intere...

As a potential founder population of MS, the Scandinavian ethnic group is of special interest in MS genetics. Project in these countries have recently led to several reports, including associations with HLA class I, CTLA-4 and suggestive linkage to several chromosomal candidate loci. The analysis of isolated populations within Scandinavia may also prove to be rewarding.

Introduction The Improving School Leadership activity underscores that improving student learning is the core task school leaders should dedicate their time to. The report highlights what we know about the significance of school leadership in improving students’ learning, and it includes many recommendations for policy-makers to consider. Sustainable change is probably depending on how well eac...

background: little attention has been given to the relationship between work-life balance and sickness absence. objective: to investigate the association between poor work-life balance and sickness absence in 4 nordic welfare states. methods: multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed on pooled cross-sectional data of workers aged 15–65 years from denmark, finland, sweden, and nor...

Across the various varieties of Scandinavian a remarkable variation pertains to the syntactic structure of noun phrases. The aim of this paper is to argue that the variation to a large extent, and in a principled way, is due to overt morphological variation. As a starting point consider the possessive noun phrases in (1) and (2) from the Skellefteå dialect in northern Sweden. In Mainland Scandi...

In the Scandinavian languages, sentential negation must be licensed outside VP, necessitating leftward movement of negative objects, Negative Shift (NegS). While string-vacuous NegS is possible in all Scandinavian varieties, there is a fair amount of cross-linguistic variation as to non-string-vacuous NegS. In particular, the varieties contrast in which constituents can be crossed by NegS and w...

Having recently finished watching the first season of Forbrydelsen (The Killing) I know something about Scandinavian knitwear. As the protagonist of this Danish TV thriller, Sarah Lund, doggedly solves a murder case, she is continuously huddling into a thick, cosy, snowflake sweater (there is even a website dedicated to this knitted garment). The traditional Scandinavian sweater is a useful ima...