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The wealth, health and wellbeing of Ireland's older people before and during the economic crisis
Barrett, Alan; O'Sullivan, Vincent - 2013
The economic crisis of 2008/9 was felt more acutely in Ireland relative to elsewhere and culminated in the … international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228783
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The impact of Ireland's recession on the labour market outcomes of its immigrants
Barrett, Alan; Kelly, Elish - 2010
In the mid 2000s Ireland experienced a large inflow of immigrants, partly in response to strong economic growth but … 2004 and 2007, the proportion of non-nationals living in Ireland almost doubled, increasing from 7.7 to 13.1 percent …. Between 2008 and 2009, Ireland experienced one of the most acute downturns in economic activity in the industrialised world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009012416
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Heterogeneous effects of blood pressure screening
Kaempfen, Fabrice; Mosca, Irene - 2024
(follow-up) as part of a nationally-representative longitudinal study on ageing in Ireland. We employ a Regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464112
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Linking individuals and societies
Jasso, Guillermina - 2009
How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science - population and variable. Starting with the simplest case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872719
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Taking chances : the effect of growing up on welfare on the risky behavior of young people
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ryan, Christopher J.; … - 2009
We analyze the effect of growing up on welfare on young people's involvement in a variety of social and health risks. Young people in welfare families are much more likely to take both social and health risks. Much of the apparent link between family welfare history and risk taking disappears,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003830282
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Did the "Bologna Process" achieve its goals? : 20 years of empirical evidence on student enrolment, study success and labour market outcomes
Kroher, Martina; Leuze, Kathrin; Thomsen, Stephan L.; … - 2021
years later, we examine whether these goals were met by reviewing quantitative articles from sociology and economics. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648244
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Gender and culture
Giuliano, Paola - 2020
This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force participation, and performance in mathematics, amongst many others) show remarkable differences across countries and tend to persist over time. The economics literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267026
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The economics of language : an introduction and overview
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2008
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729415
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Economic well-being and poverty among the elderly : an analysis based on a collective consumption model
Cherchye, Laurens (contributor); Rock, Bram de (contributor) - 2008
We apply the collective consumption model of Browning, Chiappori and Lewbel (2006) to analyse economic well-being and poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies of scale of living in a couple, and a sharing rule...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652712
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Seemingly irrelevant events affect economic perceptions and expectations : the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
"Prominent economic theories have emphasized the role of commonly held perceptions and expectations for determining macroeconomic outcomes. A key empirical question is how such collectively held beliefs are formed. We use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment. We provide direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003359287