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Towards a Better and Sustainable Health Care System Resource Allocation and Financing Issues for Ireland
(ESRI, 15/10/2010)The key to any efficient and sustainable system is coherence ? the various elements must lead in the same direction so that actions do not conflict and mixed signals are avoided. In the context of a complex system, such ... -
Towards a sociology of art collections : the making of an art collection for the Irish Museum of Modern Art
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2003)This thesis offers an exploration into the making of an art collection for the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. Its aim is to set out a distinct methodology for a sociological approach to the study of art collecting. ... -
Towards Flexible Workplace Governance: employment rights, dispute resolution and social partnership in the Irish Republic
(Trinity COllege Dublin, 2005)Workplace conflict is part and parcel of economic life. If disputes at work are not properly addressed, they can get out of hand with potentially far reaching adverse consequences for employers and employees. A well-designed ... -
Towards multicultural, multi-religious European societies? Schooling Turkish students in Britain and Germany
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Trade and the international market for works of art
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2002)This research analyses the forces shaping trade in the international market for works of art using both descriptive and econometric analysis. It also explores the institutional structure of the art trade specialising in ... -
Trade Dimensions of Food Security, OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers, No. 77, OECD Publishing.
(2015)This report examines the different channels through which trade openness (and reforms to achieve it) can affect a country’s food security. The overall conclusion is that trade openness has a positive net impact on food ... -
Trade diversion and labor market adjustment: Vietnam and the U.S.-China trade war
(2023)This paper investigates the effects of the U.S.-China trade war on trade diversion and the labor market in a third country, Vietnam. We exploit variation in Vietnamese exports to the U.S. across industries and districts ... -
Trade Liberalisation and Climate Change: A CGE Analysis of the Impacts on Global Agriculture
(ESRI, 2011)Based on predicted changes in the magnitude and distribution of global precipitation, temperature and river flow under the IPCC SRES A1B and A2 scenarios, this study assesses the potential impacts of climate change and CO2 ... -
Trade, Energy, and Carbon Dioxide: An Analysis for the Two Economies of Ireland
(ESRI, 2012)In this paper we use a subsystem input?output decomposition analysis to examine the drivers of greenhouse gas emissions in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland. We use a bi?regional input?output analysis to look ... -
Transcendentalism without Idealism: An Essay on Kant and Wittgenstein
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2024)In this work, I compare Kant and Wittgenstein’s critical philosophies with respect to Transcendental Idealism, as a doctrine meant to “prove” the possibility of Metaphysics. My Central Question is: Is the early Wittgenstein ... -
Transformative Training in Soft Skills for Peacekeepers
(2019)Personnel in peacekeeping missions come from diverse organizations and nations, yet must coordinate together in each peacekeeping mission. Diversity in organizations (militaries, police forces, civil ... -
Transforming the fisheries : the politics of environmental sustainability
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2012)This thesis looks at the current transformations in the Irish and European fisheries as a way of critically examining the politics of environmental sustainability. It begins by analysing how the crisis of the fisheries is ... -
Transition, reconstruction, and decline : a portrait of NGO development in post-apartheid South Africa
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2008)This dissertation is a contribution to the sociology of NGOs operating in post-conflict societies. The research is based on an ethnographic study of an NGO undergoing change and transition in a rapidly changing South Africa. ... -
Translocality and the Class Conditions of Filipino Nurse Migrants in the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2024)The rise in the number of international labour migrants and their situatedness in and attachments to multiple locations are creating complex class conditions for migrant labour, which are only beginning to be understood ... -
Transportation Scenarios: Looking forward and looking back in four European cities
(Irish Transport Researchers Network, 2010-09-01)The post World War II history of European urban transport in cities involves trajectories, switching points and socio-political choices. The paper contributes to our understanding of such choices by confronting the results ... -
Trends in Air Pollution in Ireland: A Decomposition Analysis
(ESRI, 13/02/2012)Trends in the emissions to air of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, and ammonia in Ireland are analysed with a logarithmic mean Divisia index decomposition for the period of ... -
Trends in Consumption since the Crisis
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Trends in Educational Homogamy and Heterogamy - Analyzing the Roles of Assortative Mating and Structural Opportunities using a Novel Decomposition Method
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2024)Higher education expansion has reshaped the educational composition of partner markets. Despite this notable shift in structural opportunities for mating, our understanding of how these changes have influenced marital ... -
Trust and Cooperation in International Peacekeeping: Approaches to Assessing Trust in a High-Risk Networked Environment
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2021)Trust has been described as an essential social lubricant (Luhmann, 1979) and one of the most important synthetic forces within society (Simmel, 1950). Trust acts as a reducer of social complexity and is often viewed ... -
Turkish Youth in the European Knowledge Economy: Exploring their responses to Europe and the role of social class and school dynamics for their identities
(2007)Globalisation and Europeanisation are complementary and partly overlapping processes that identify the increasingly supranational context in which political and educational systems are operating. This article explores how ...