Evaluations of programmes — for example, labour market interventions such as employment schemes and training courses — usually involve comparison of the performance of a treatment group (recipients of the programme) with a control group (non-recipients) as regards some response (gaining...

This report covers the results of a six-year follow-up of graduates from third level. In general, graduates were found to fare extremely well in the labour market in terms of both earnings levels and success in finding employment. Migration out of Ireland was very common among graduates, with...

The widespread increase in part-time working in most OECD countries over recent years has been accompanied by concerns about the quality of part-time jobs. Most existing research on differences in pay and benefits between full- and part-time work tends to focus on the characteristics of...

The largest partial sum of deviations from the mean is a statistic of importance in several areas of application, including hydrology and in testing for a change-point. Approximations to its distribution for the simple normal case have appeared in the literature, based either on functionals of...

This paper utilised the national Household Budget Survey to examine patterns in energy use and their relevance to policy. Income elasticities for the various fuels were calculated and their implications assessed, with particular emphasis on the potential for policy to reduce or restrain...