JSSISI: 2015 to 2016, Vol. XLV, 169th Session
Recent Submissions
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry of Ireland One Hundred and Sixty-Ninth Session: 2015/2016
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Memoriam: Brendan Walsh
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)Memoriam: Brendan Walsh - 53rd President of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland (2001-2004) - Born: May 1942 (Dublin); Died: 20th May 2016 (Dublin) -
A Hundred and Fifty Years of Vital Statistics: Documenting Demographic Change in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)In December 2015 the CSO published the 150th annual Vital Statistics volume (for 2013) – a publication which has played a central role in documenting demographic change in Ireland since the first edition for 1864. This ... -
Earnings and Low Pay in the Republic of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)As signs of economic recovery continue to emerge, issues relating to quality of life, living standards, the provision of public services and adequacy of income are returning to the policy sphere. Included among these are ... -
Progress and the Lack of Progress in Addressing Infant Health and Infant Health Inequalities in Ireland during the 20th Century
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)There is a growing literature which documents the importance of early life environment for outcomes across the life cycle. Research, including studies based on Irish data, demonstrates that those who experience better ... -
Estimating the impact of household energy savings measures for Ireland using the BER database
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)This paper estimates the impacts of various household energy saving measures in Ireland. The analysis develops a matrix of household energy use and types based on the Building Energy Rating (BER) system and the major ... -
A Discursive Institutionalist Approach to Understanding the Changes to the Irish Social Partnership Policy After 2008
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)Employing the critical juncture theory (CJT), a discursive institutionalist approach, this paper examines the nature of the changes to social partnership policy at the end of the decade of the 2000s. Did these changes ... -
A Tale of Two Clusters: The Evolution of Ireland’s Economic Complexity since 1995
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)This paper characterizes the evolution of the manufacturing and industrial export structure of Ireland since 1995 within the framework of Economic Complexity and the Product Space. We observe a high level of specialisation ... -
An approach to estimating the effects of financing system change on Irish healthcare expenditure
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)The Irish healthcare system is a complex mix of public and private. The system is predominantly tax-financed (in 2013, 77 per cent of healthcare financing came from general taxation revenues); however, private health ...