In 1997 the Irish Government adopted the National Anti-Poverty Strategy (NAPS), a global target for the reduction of poverty which illuminates a range of issues relating to official poverty targets. The Irish target is framed in terms of a relative poverty measure incorporating both relative...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between sense of control and perceptions of social support particularly as it affects psychological distress. The results provide no evidence for the displacement hypothesis whereby the benefits of social support involve costs in terms of...

In this paper we examine the consequences for social mobility patterns of the unprecedented period of economic growth experienced in Ireland over the 1990s and the implications of developments for current theories of social fluidity. Contrary to suggestions that the ?Celtic Tiger? experience has...

Rates of smoking have decreased dramatically in most Northern European countries over the last fifty years or so, but this decline has not been uniform across the population and there have actually been increases in smoking among lower income and social class groups. Although smoking...

In this paper we develop a mobility model which seeks to operationalise Goldthorpe's (1980: 99) argument that social fluidity is shaped by three factors - namely, resources for mobility; the desirability of different class destinations; and the barriers to entry to class positions. We argue...

This paper examines the relationship between class of origin, educational attainment, and class of entry to the labour force, in three cohorts of men in the Republic of Ireland using data collected in 1987. The three cohorts comprise men born (i) before 1936; (ii) between 1936 and 1949; and (iii)...

Reactions to unemployment are the outcome of complex interactions between the psychological condition of the individual and the economic circumstances of the household. Despite the increasing volume of research on the relationship between unemployment and mental health, consideration of the...

In this paper to update findings relating to class mobility outcomes and processes in the Republic of Ireland employing data from the living in Ireland Survey which was carried out in 1994. We also provide an evaluation of measured variable model of the mobility process developed on an earlier...