This study, commissioned by the GAA and the GPA, uses data from a survey of 2016 players to examine the commitments required to play senior inter-county Gaelic games, and the impact that this has on players' personal and professional lives, and their club involvement.

This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...

The term skill mismatch is very broad and can relate to many forms of labour market friction, including vertical mismatch, skill gaps, skill shortages, field of study (horizontal) mismatch and skill obsolescence. In this paper we provide a clear overview of each concept and discuss the...

We use data from a new international dataset - the European Skills and Jobs Survey - to create a unique measure of skills-displacing technological change (SDT), defined as technological change that may render workers' skills obsolete. We find that 16 percent of adult workers in the EU are...

This report, based on the findings from the 2006 Annual School Leavers' Survey, gives an insight into the position, experiences and attitudes of school leavers one year after leaving second-level. The survey highlights trends (since 1980) in the circumstances of young people leaving school. It...

This study, commissioned by the GAA and the GPA, uses data from a survey of 2016 players to examine the commitments required to play senior inter-county Gaelic games, and the impact that this has on players' personal and professional lives, and their club involvement.