Social Policy & Administration, 2020:1-16 Julien Mercille and Nicholas O’Neill Introduction The growth of private for-profit home care providers has been an uneven process in Europe. It has underlined the need for more research on private providers to explain their growth and modes of operation. This paper looks at the Irish case which has seen…
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Dr Akisato Suzuki [a][b] Many pieces of policy research use statistical inference to estimate (i.e., do a “smart guess” about) the effects of policy interventions, based on data. As more and more data are becoming available and, accordingly, statistical modeling (aka data science) is becoming more common, it is crucial to understand the underlying assumption,…
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John Coakley [a] In presenting what was billed as a major government initiative in Dublin Castle on 22 October 2020, Taoiseach Micheál Martin appeared to signal a fundamental policy shift on Northern Ireland on the part of the coalition government and of his own Fianna Fáil party. Rejecting Sinn Féin demands for a “border poll”…
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Friday, 17 April 2020 A.The Macroeconomy of Ireland Post Covid-19 Video Chair: Professor Stephen Kinsella (University of Limerick)Sharon Donnery (Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Ireland) SlidesBeata Javorcik (Chief Economist, ERBD)Michael McMahon (Professor of Macroeconomics, University of Oxford) B. Impact of School Closures on Educational Inequalities Video Chair: Orla Doyle (UCD) SlidesNoel Kelly (Director of Educational…
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The Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Study 2018, a World Health Organization Collaborative Cross-National Study, is now available HERE
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Rent Index 2019, Quarter 3 now available from the RTB HERE
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An Analysis of Labour Market Earnings for Higher Education Graduates in their Early Careers, Graduation Cohorts: 2010 – 2017 is now available from the HEA HERE
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Quarterly Economic Commentary, Winter 2019 now available from the ESRI HERE
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Human Development Report 2019 is now available from the United Nations Development Programme HERE
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Healthy Ireland Survey now available from the Department of Health HERE
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