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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 … and 2001 to examine wage inequality, the returns to education and the relative demand for labour for men and women …
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This paper develops a statistical profiling model of long-term unemployment risk in Ireland using a combination of …
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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 …
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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 …
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Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates … virginity, across societies and over time, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender …
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gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. … at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both … influencing the selection in terms skills and in term of gender. We found that network effects vary by education level but not by …
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and females. Moreover, in some countries results show convergence between cohort and gender specific travel demand: women …Results from travel demand research in many countries show that - on average - women are less mobile and have different … mobility patterns than men. Recent longitudinal studies of gender specific travel demand reveal converging mobility of males …
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more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older … and highly educated undocumented immigrant women relative to men; 2) A change in the skill composition of immigrant women …
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There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as men do and are less willing to enter a competition … understand the underlying motives of women (and men) to enter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors … those women who do not choose competitive incentives "know" that they should not. …
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how women could be more successfully motivated to become self-employed in the crafts. First of all, traditional gender …. Entrepreneurship consulting should incorporate gender typical concerns and cater to the specific informational requirements of women … tendency of women to start businesses in the service sector, which is underrepresented in the crafts. Women also tend to be …
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