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  • Cherishing all equally 2020 : inequality and the care economy 

    Sweeney, Robert (TASC / Foundation for European Progressive Studies, Brussels, ireland, 2020-10-14)
    Like many other crises before, Covid-19 has put a disproportionate burden on women. The gender aspect of the pandemic is indeed an important issue for analysis as well as policy. While men are more likely to die from the ...
  • Female labour force participation and unemployment in Northern Ireland: religion and family effects 

    Murphy, Anthony (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1995)
    Econometric models of the incidence of economic activity and employment by religion for females in Northern Ireland are presented. Particular attention is paid to family effects. Censored bivariate probit models are estimated ...
  • Labour force participation and the growth of women's employment, Ireland 1971-1991 

    Walsh, Brendan M. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)
    This paper studies changes in labour force participation rates and in the structure of the Irish labour force over the period 1971-1991. The rise in participation rates among females aged 25-54 and the decline among older ...
  • Married women in the Irish part-time labour market 

    Doris, Aedin (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1998)
    This paper uses an econometric analysis of the 1987 Economic and Social Research Institute household survey data to assess the sources of the growth which has occurred in parttime employment in the last decade. The models ...
  • Measuring the female labour supply: conceptual and procedural problems in Irish official statistics 

    Fahey, Tony (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1990)
    This paper examines some problems which reduce the usefulness of Irish labour statistics as measures of women's, particularly married women's, labour activities. These problems arise both at a conceptual level ? principally ...
  • Organisational culture as a barrier to women's promotion 

    O'Connor, Pat (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1996)
    Over the past five years increasing attention has been paid to the importance of what Witz and Savage (1992) have described as the gendered nature of organisations. This paper focuses on what they have called the "significance ...
  • Time to care! Work, life and inequality in the care economy 

    Sweeney, Robert; Thissen, Laeticia (Foundation for European Progressive Studies, belgium, 2020-07-30)
    The distribution of care work in a society plays a central role in the formation of inequality between men and women. The structure of care provision, or the distribution of caring responsibilities, is perhaps the largest ...