Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … samples from the 1911 census of Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive …

of Ireland in a relatively short time-span deserve close scrutiny so as to inform future policy direction. The, sometimes …

There are concerns that the unprecedented economic boom which Ireland experienced in the second half of the 1990s has … raised only some living standards and has widened income gaps. This paper analyzes Ireland's income distribution in … comparative perspective, to understand how Ireland's distribution changed and how it compares to other rich countries. We begin …

Traditionally characterised as a labour-surplus economy, Ireland was transformed during the 1990s. An impressive rate …

Labour market policies in Denmark, especially measures for the unemployed, recently received much attention, because of …. Denmark offers a flexible labour market with minimal regulations combined with high social security. This ‘flexicurity’ has …. However, Denmark has been able to embed activation into the tradition of a generous and universal welfare state. The paper …

The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size … Cameroon; and child mortality in North Sudan and Senegal. Overall mortality levels are high in Western and Central Africa and … low in Eastern and Southern Africa. …