[PDF] Top 20 Placing Ireland in a comparative perspective

... Political and Economic Change in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain, London: Harper and Row... Financing Social Security.[r] ... See full document

... in Ireland were below the average for the ten Western European countries, there was a strong increase in the proportion of employees in Ireland experiencing job stress between 2010 and ... See full document

... in Ireland were below the average for the ten Western European countries, there was a strong increase in the proportion of employees in Ireland experiencing job stress between 2010 and ... See full document

... of Ireland as having become a “low tax” economy over the boom and bubble period, with income taxes in particular cut to low levels while stamp duties and capital gains taxes sustained the public ...from ... See full document

... cycle perspective recognises that risks are linked across problem areas while difficulties experienced at any specific life cycle phase may be either a consequence of earlier difficulties or a precursor of later ... See full document

... At this point we focus our attention on developing a measure of consistent poverty that facilitates comparative European analysis. The Irish component of EU-SILC includes 11 items relating to food, clothing, ... See full document

... Vet, with statutory pensions based on flat rate Ienefik% in spite of increasing benelits h’ish replacement rates could not catch up with those in the other Western countries, where incom[r] ... See full document

... contrast, Ireland, the UK, Australia, Germany and Sweden employ broader definitions of homelessness which include, for example, those residing in transitional homeless accommodation (Fitzpatrick and Stephens, ... See full document

... Throughout the report, the analysis was conducted on a dataset that included 30 European countries (or 34 in the case of analyses for 2010). This allowed us to take advantage of a very large sample in examining (a) the ... See full document

... More recently, data originating from other healthcare systems underpins the value of placing a strong primary care system in the community, and at the heart of the health system. Evidence from Denmark, New ... See full document

... In summary, our main findings from the analysis are as follows: we find a positive correlation between using issued debt and enterprises either being bank lending constrained or facing tighter lending conditions on their ... See full document

... obtained information for most sources of income (earnings, social security transfers, pensions) in respect of the amount received in the current pay period (usually last week, fortnight or month). For income from ... See full document

... SOCIAL MOBILITY IN IRELAND i those factors affecting the supply and demand for different types of labour which produce cross-national differences in the class distribution of origins and[r] ... See full document

... The Changing Dynamics of Religion and National Identity Greece and Ireland in a Comparative Perspective Daphne Halikiopoulou Thesis Submitted for obtaining the degree of PhD European Institute London[.] ... See full document

... Action Ireland (a national voluntary organisation for those committed to the public health perspective), indicates that a majority of Irish people express support for alcohol control policy (Alcohol Action ... See full document

... Recent research carried out on behalf of the Crafts Council of Ireland by Indecon International Economic Consultants has estimated the value of output of Irish craft enterprises at €498m. It estimates that the ... See full document

... Agrometeorological conferences were regularly held by AGMET, and the conference proceeding from most of these were published. These became valuable networking oppor- tunities as well as a way to introduce younger ... See full document

... in Ireland; however, their frequency relative to other grain-growing regions throughout the world is not yet clear (Byrne, 2017; unpublished ...within Ireland where crops are typically produced is ... See full document

... the perspective of the fundamental mechanisms that alter phenotypes through to examples of intergenerational effects and dramatic life history alterations that are epigenetically ... See full document

... Notwithstanding the preceding discussion, there is in some areas a widespread assumption that in order to be ‘proper’ regionalism, a degree of EU style institutionalism should be in place. This emphasis on institutional ... See full document