extra costs of living associated with disability in Ireland. We also derive estimates of the cost of disability for … Ireland is large, varies by severity of disability, and across household types. Overall our findings have important … implications for measures of poverty in Ireland. …

variation by household reference person characteristics for this indicator and a consistent poverty measure for Ireland, the UK … of Ireland’s situation lies not in the overall levels of poverty per se but in the very high penalties associated with …In this paper we seek to put Irish poverty rates in a comparative European context. We do so in a context whereby the …

regime and socio-economic differences in poverty levels and patterns and variation in the consequences of poverty for … economic stress can assist us in making informed choices between alternative poverty indicators. Poverty in the EU is normally … a country such as Ireland perform poorly in comparison with a number of the New Member States (NMS) despite enjoying …

multidimensional approaches to poverty and social exclusion, increasing concerns about reliance on nationally based income poverty …. Contrary to the situation with national income poverty measures, levels of economic vulnerability vary systematically across … experience of poverty and social exclusion in an enlarged European Union. The most effective strategy may be to take more …

survey to evaluate conflicting interpretations of levels and patterns of material deprivation in Ireland after the Celtic …, have focused unduly on relative income poverty measures. Here, employing a multidimensional perspective that encompasses …

In this paper we consider the consequences for measurement of material deprivation, consistent poverty and economic … poverty ; material deprivation ; multidimensionality ; consistent poverty ; economic strain ; economic stress …

Conditions (EU-SILC) survey for 2004 in order to develop a measure of consistent poverty that overcomes some of the difficulties … associated with the original indicators employed as targets in the Irish National Anti-Poverty Strategy. Our analysis leads us to … reliable and valid measure Consistent poverty measures incorporating the revised measure of economic strain and adopting a …

In this paper, using Ireland, where debt issues are of particular salience as a test case, we seek to understand the … extent to which the measures currently employed as national indicators of poverty and social exclusion succeed in capturing … ability increasing sharply as one moves from 'at risk of poverty' to consistent poverty and finally economic vulnerability …

This paper studies the determinants of why low-income households in Ireland abandon energy efficiency retrofit …

This paper examines the determinants of household car ownership in Ireland, using longitudinal data for the period 1995 …-2001. This was a period of rapid economic and social change in Ireland, with the proportion of households with one or more cars … growing from 74.6 per cent to 80.8 per cent over the period. Understanding the determinants of household car ownership, a key …