How great an effect does the structure of income taxes have on women’s labour market participation? This issue is … investigated using a discrete choice static labour supply model for married couples in Ireland. The model incorporates fixed costs … from the 1994 wave of the Living in Ireland Survey. The results are used to analyse the labour supply effects of a move to …

Recent rapid economic growth in Ireland has been accompanied by a strong surge in the number of women in employment … Ireland in 2003. Our results show that while part-time work and flexi-time tend to reduce work pressure and work-life conflict …-life conflict. -- work-life balance ; flexible working arrangements ; gender ; work stress ; work pressure …

This paper develops a statistical profiling model of long-term unemployment risk in Ireland using a combination of … both equity and efficiency gains to Public Employment Services. -- Statistical Profiling ; Long-term Unemployment ; Ireland …

concomitant changes in labour supply. -- earnings inequality ; returns to education ; gender ; Ireland …Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” years saw GDP per capita rise from 60% of the EU average to 120% of the average over the … boom for returns to education and wage inequality? This paper uses data from the Living in Ireland Survey for 1994, 1997 …

inequalities in the classroom. Within this literature however, little attention has been given to the role of gender in concerted … cultivation. In this paper, we use data from the first wave of the Growing Up in Ireland longitudinal study to consider how both … social class and gender influence the level and type of out-of-school activities in which children engage. Moreover, we …

during adulthood. Logistic regressions and Cox regressions reveal strong effects on participation of gender, cohort and …

this to investigate the impact of climate change on the regions of Germany, Ireland and the UK. Because of climate change … increase numbers – as tourism demand from increasingly rich tropical countries grows. In Ireland and the UK, the regional …

difference in wholesale prices between Ireland and Britain is due to differences in generating technology. The new wholesale … electricity market for the island of Ireland appears to be working well - it is producing a wholesale price that approximates the … Republic of Ireland the retail margin was probably also higher than it should have been. …

market. I simulate the wholesale electricity markets of Great Britain and the island of Ireland for 2005. I find that in … competition in Ireland, the less competitive of the two markets. Finally, it is unlikely that private investors will pay for the … ; Ireland …