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 …

This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland … position of the household in the income distribution and that behavioural response can potentially improve the welfare position …

with GDP per capita: poverty accounts for a much greater share of the welfare costs in poorer countries. Finally, the …This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its …

household registration (designed to limit domestic migration flows by denying urban public services to migrants with rural … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household …

places substantial firing costs on firms and has a major impact on the decisions of firms to hire disabled workers …

administrative data from Ireland, we explore the performance in college of different types of students. We find that post …

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 …

effects. Combining the labor shock and price shock simultaneously, the simulations in this paper show an increase in poverty … individuals in sectors such as tourism and construction are expected to fall into poverty due to COVID-19. The paper estimates … poverty. Specifically, the increase in poverty will be 6.5 percentage points under the optimistic scenario if mitigation …