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Exploring the Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration through a Longitudinal Study on Ageing

Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Between 2009 and 2011, fieldwork was undertaken for the first wave of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Extension information was collected on about 8,500 people aged 50 and over and living in Ireland, covering topics such as economic circumstances and health. One of the features...

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Peer Groups, Employment Status and Mental Well-being among Older Adults in Ireland

Hudson, Eibhlin; Barrett, Alan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Research has shown that employment status, such as being unemployed or retired, can be related to well-being. In addition, the direction and size of these relationships can be influenced by the employment status of one's peer group. For example, it has been shown that the well-being of the...

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Ageing in a Long-term Regeneration Neighbourhood: A Disruptive Experience or Successful Ageing in Place?

Kleinhans, Reinout; Veldboer, Lex; Jansen, Sylvia; van … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The aging population of European cities raises enormous challenges with regard to employment, pensions, health care and other age-related services. The housing preferences of the aging population are changing rapidly where more and more people want to live independent lives for as long as...

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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being

Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...

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Does Professional Development of Preschool Teachers Improve Child Socio-Emotional Outcomes?

Jensen, Bente; Jensen, Peter; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The purpose of the intervention is to improve … child socio-emotional outcomes (measured by SDQ), especially for socially disadvantaged children. The intervention … results show improvements in several subscales of the SDQ scale. However, the intervention proves less beneficial for socially …

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Social Isolation, Loneliness and Return Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults

Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Across the subjects of economics, sociology and demography, much has been written about the difficulties faced by immigrants. However, much less attention has been paid to the re-adjustment challenges migrants face on their return. In this paper, we examine whether and the extent to which a...

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