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Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance

Dahl, Gordon B. - 2018

Does participation in a social assistance program by parents have spillovers on their children's own participation, future labor market attachment, and human capital investments? While intergenerational concerns have figured prominently in policy debates for decades, causal evidence is scarce...

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Protecting Working-Age People with Disabilities : Experiences of Four Industrialized Nations

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2015

Although industrialized nations have long provided public protection to working-age individuals with disabilities, the form has changed over time. The impetus for change has been multi-faceted: rapid growth in program costs; greater awareness that people with impairments are able and willing to...

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The Impact of Centre-Based Childcare on Non-Cognitive Skills of Young Children

Morando, Greta; Platt, Lucinda - 2022

attainment and wages. Drawing on a rich, nationally representative longitudinal sample of young children in Ireland, we present …

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Recent Developments in the Irish Labour Market : Is it All Good News?

Kelly, Elish - 2017

explore the prevalence of atypical work in Ireland which provides a fascinating case-study. Ireland experienced a dramatic …

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The Impact of Voluntary and Involuntary Retirement on Mental Health : Evidence from Older Irish Adults

Mosca, Irene - 2014

(TILDA). This is a nationally representative sample of individuals aged 50 and over and living in Ireland.To deal with …

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The Role of Self-Employment in Ireland's Older Workforce

Nolan, Anne - 2018

A feature of employment at older ages that has been observed in many countries, including Ireland, is the higher share … Ageing (TILDA), spanning the period 2010-2016, to examine both the characteristics of the older self-employed in Ireland and …-employed people at older ages in Ireland results from lower retirement rates among the self-employed and not from transitions from …

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Working Beyond 65 in Ireland

Nolan, Anne - 2018

Extending working lives is often proposed as one route through which the costs associated with population ageing can be managed. In that context, understanding who currently works for longer can help policymakers to design policies to facilitate longer working. In particular, it is important to...

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Estimating the Effect of an Increase in the Minimum Wage on Hours Worked and Employment in Ireland

McGuinness, Séamus - 2018

On the 1st of January 2016 the Irish National Minimum Wage increased from €8.65 to €9.15 per hour, an increase of approximately six percent. We use a difference-in-differences estimator to evaluate whether the change in the minimum wage affected the hours worked and likelihood of job loss of...

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Exploiting the Irish Border to Estimate Minimum Wage Impacts in Northern Ireland

McVicar, Duncan - 2018

2016 introduction of the UK National Living Wage (NLW) in Northern Ireland (NI). NI is the only part of the UK with a land … the border (Republic of Ireland). This discontinuity in minimum wage coverage enables a research design that estimates the …

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Faces of Joblessness in Ireland a People-Centred Perspective on Employment Barriers and Policies

Browne, James - 2018

In the aftermath of the financial and economic crisis, large shares of working-age individuals in Ireland either did … key challenges across different policy areas and institutions. The most common employment obstacles in Ireland were …

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