Browsing by Author "Layte, Richard"
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Are Classroom Internet Use and Academic Performance Higher after Government Broadband Subsidies to Primary Schools?
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Did the Celtic Tiger decrease socio-economic differentials in perinatal mortality in Ireland?
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)Irish perinatal mortality rates have been falling steadily for a number of decades but evidence from the 1980s showed pronounced differentials in mortality rates across socio-economic groups. Between 1995 and 2006 Irish ... -
Equity in the utilisation of health care in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2004)This paper analyses the extent of equity of health service delivery across the income distribution in Ireland ? that is the extent to which there is equal treatment for equal need irrespective of income. We find that ... -
Equity in the utilisation of hospital inpatient services in Ireland? an improved approach to the measurement of health need
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2007)The complex interweaving of public and private provision in Irish hospitals has led to concerns that hospital care is not available to all on the basis of need alone. Previous research on Irish hospitals found that utilisation ... -
Explaining the Belated Emergence of Social Protest in Ireland Between 2009 and 2014
(SSISI, 2017)In the summer of 2009, Ireland was the first European country to officially enter recession following the fiscal crisis which had enveloped the international banking system following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in ... -
Exploring Trends in the Rate of Caesarean Section in Ireland 1999-2007
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2011)This paper explores levels and trends in the prevalence of Caesarean section delivery in Ireland between 1999 and 2007. Over this period the Caesarean section rate for singleton births in Ireland increased by over one ... -
The influence of ethnicity on breastfeeding rates in Ireland: a cross-sectional study.
(2014)Background: Historically, breastfeeding rates in Ireland have been low compared with international averages. It has been suggested that maternal ethnicity and citizenship may influence breastfeeding rates, with ethnic ... -
Loneliness, social isolation, and their discordance among older adults
(TILDA, 2019)We have shown here that loneliness and social isolation are not a necessary fact of the ageing process and recent efforts to alleviate these potentially damaging phenomena should be encouraged. This is particularly important ... -
Monitoring Poverty Trends and Exploring Poverty Dynamics in Ireland
(ESRI, Dublin, 2001)The paper on Monitoring Poverty Trends is the latest report in the annual series commissioned by the Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs. It attempts to assess progress in reaching the national targets in ... -
Monitoring Poverty Trends in Ireland: Results from the 2000 Living in Ireland survey
(ESRI, Dublin, 2002)This study is the latest in a series monitoring the evolution of poverty, based on data gathered by The ESRI in the Living in Ireland Surveys since 1994. These have allowed progress towards achieving the targets set out ... -
Monitoring Poverty trends in Ireland: Results from the 2001 Living in Ireland Survey
(ESRI, Dublin, 2003)The ESRI's study updates our picture of poverty in Ireland using results from the Living in Ireland Survey carried out in 2001. The publication is the latest in a series monitoring living standards and assessing progress ... -
Monitoring Poverty Trends: Data from the 1997 Living in Ireland Survey
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Profiling the Unemployed: An Analysis of the Galway and Waterford Live-Register Surveys
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Reassessing income and deprivation approaches to the measurement of poverty in the Republic of Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2001)This paper reassesses the validity of a poverty measure combining relative income and non-monetary deprivation indicators, first developed and applied to Irish data for 1987, in the light of experience since then and ... -
Socio-economic Differentials in Male Mortality in Ireland 1984-2008
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2016)The presence of pronounced inequalities in mortality and life expectancy across income, education and social groups has long been a “stylized fact” of demography. Research across a large number of developed and wealthy ... -
Socioeconomic status, non-communicable disease risk factors, and walking speed in older adults: multi-cohort population based study.
(British Medical Association, 2018)Objective: To assess the association of low socioeconomic status and risk factors for non-communicable diseases (diabetes, high alcohol intake, high blood pressure, obesity, physical inactivity, smoking) with loss of ... -
Sporting Lives: An Analysis of a Lifetime of Irish Sport
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Taxes, Benefits and Labour Market Responses: New Evidence for Ireland
(ESRI, Dublin, 2003)Three main goals are achieved in this study.Estimates are provided of how strongly the labour supply of Irish married couples is linked to the financial rewards from work, based on best practice techniques from the ... -
Temporary jobs in Ireland: does class influence job quality?
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2008)Fixed term and casual employment have become increasingly common in OECD countries in the last decade. Research suggests that non-permanent contracts are associated with lower job quality. This paper examines differentials ... -
The Economics and Marketing of Tobacco: An Overview of the Existing Published Evidence
(ESRI, Dublin, 2002)Smoking is the largest cause of serious illness and premature death in Ireland accounting for approximately 7,000 deaths annually. Irish people spent ?1.9 billion on tobacco in 2000 - more than on petrol, electricity, coal, ...
