http://hdl.handle.net/2262/62006 2017-10-28T01:26:49Z 2017-10-28T01:26:49Z Layte, Richard Callan, Tim http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61987 2016-09-09T17:51:01Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unemployment, welfare benefits and the financial incentive to work Layte, Richard; Callan, Tim Although disincentive effects associated with payments have been regulaly found in research in the US and UK, the UK research is disputed and effects have been notable by their absence in studies from Continental Europe. However, much of this research has been hindered by inadequate models of the structure of payments and estimates of in work incomes. In this paper we explicitly model the structue of benefit payments over time and estimate in work income using the SWITCH tax/benefit model. We find that the hazard of exit from unemployment is negatively related to unemployment payments, but distinctive effects appear to influence only those receiving Unemployment Benefts (UB) and are small when compared internationally. Moreover, the exit rate increases for this group as exhaustion approaches at 15 months duration. We find no significant distinctive effects amongst those receiving Unemployment Assistance (UA).

2001-01-01T00:00:00Z McVicar, Duncan http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61903 2016-09-09T18:17:26Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

School quality and staying-on in Northern Ireland: resources, peer groups and ethos McVicar, Duncan The paper examines career choice at age 16 in Northern Ireland using micro data for young people completing compulsory education in 1993. Explanatory variables include resource related school characteristics, ethos-related characteristics and peer-group factors. The results suggest resources, ethos and peer group effects all play a significant role in career choice at age 16. Some of these factors, including pupil/teacher ratios, act in opposite directions on the probability of entry into Further Education College and of staying-on at school, suggesting studies of school quality on choice at age 16 should disaggregate post-compulsory education where possible.

2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Fahey, Tony http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60051 2016-09-09T18:51:16Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trends in Irish fertility rates in comparative perspective Fahey, Tony This paper examines trends in Irish fertility rates over the past four decades in the context of fertility trends in developed countries generally. Irish fertility rates have stabilised at the upper edge of the European range in the 1990s. This seems surprising, since the level of direct and opportunity costs of children would seem to be no more favourable to childbearing in Ireland than elsewhere in Europe. However, while Irish fertility rates are still reasonably high by European standards they are not particularly high by the standards of the ?new world? countries ? fertility rates in the US and New Zealand have been higher than in Ireland for much of the 1990s. The present paper explores the historical background and significance of these similarities and differences. It interprets trends in fertility rates in Ireland by reference to changes in supply and demand constraints and in the shifting balance between the two since the 1960s.

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