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The aim of the Panel Study 'Labour Market and Social Security' (PASS) is to provide a database which allows analysing the dynamics of welfare benefits receipt after the introduction of the Unemployment Benefits II in Germany in 2005. This entails the take up and ending of benefits receipt as...
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This paper examines the key elements of the expert interview as a method of data generation. First, its characteristics … are settled in order to classify this specific type of interview within the range of interview - techniques in general … flow of an expert interview including the different phases from prearrangement to data evaluation and especially the …
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This paper examines the key elements of the quantitative content analysis developed by the scientist Philip Mayring as a method of data evaluation. First, the circular research process is presented to explain the application of this method for scientific interviews in student theses. The content...
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Ireland. Model comparisons using the Akaike information criterion favor a specification with response consistency and vignette …
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systematically related to its level of economic development. Ireland is an interesting test case because of the importance of inward … important differences between Ireland's outward FDI and the bulk of FDI occurring in the world economy however. Ireland …
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Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive literature on the fertility …
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We study the coagglomeration of domestic plants and foreign multinationals and the impact of this on domestic plant growth using data for Irish manufacturing. To this end we make use of the index developed by Ellison and Glaeser (1997) and find coagglomeration to be important for a number of...
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This paper investigates the wage-setting behaviour of Irish firms. We place particular emphasis on the use of flexible pay components and examine how these allow firms to deal with shocks requiring a reduction in costs without having to cut base wages. The results presented in this paper are...
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This paper explores the incidence of job loss by wage level during the Great Recession, using data for Ireland. Ireland …
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paper we examine what has happened to earnings inequality and the returns to education in Ireland between 1987 and 1997. We …
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