Browsing Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969- by Author "Maitre, Bertrand"

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    • A comparative perspective on trends in income inequality in Ireland 

      Nolan, Brian; Maitre, Bertrand (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2000)
      Both overall income inequality and inequality in the distribution of earnings rose sharply during the 1980s and 1990s in a number of industrialised countries, notably the UK and the USA. This makes it particularly important ...

    • Identifying economically vulnerable groups as the economic crisis emerged 

      Whelan, Christopher T.; Maitre, Bertrand (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)
      A frequent refrain during recent debates on welfare cuts and tax increases has related to the need to ?protect the vulnerable?. However, it is far from clear that a consensus exists on which individuals or groups are to ...

    • Is fuel poverty in Ireland a distinct type of deprivation? 

      Watson, Dorothy; Maitre, Bertrand (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)
      In this paper, we draw on the Central Statistics Office SILC data for Ireland to ask whether fuel poverty is a distinctive type of deprivation that warrants a fundamentally different policy response than poverty in general. ...

    • ?New? and ?old? social risks: life cycle and social class perspectives on social exclusion in Ireland 

      Whelan, Christopher T.; Maitre, Bertrand (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2008)
      The life cycle concept has come to have considerable prominence in Irish social policy debate. However, this has occurred without any systematic effort to link its usage to the broader literature relating to the concept. ...

    • Trends in economic vulnerability in the Republic of Ireland 

      Whelan, Christopher T.; Nolan, Brian; Maitre, Bertrand (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)
      In this paper we evaluate trends in levels of economic vulnerability in Ireland during the period 1994-2001. We also document changes in the consequences of such vulnerability for social exclusion and in the social demographic ...