School of Social Sciences and Philosophy: Recent submissions
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Broad shoulders and tight belts, options for taxing the better-off
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Universal Credit in Northern Ireland: what will its impact be, and what are the challenges?
(Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2013)This is the first of two reports examining welfare reform and poverty in Northern Ireland, funded through a research call from OFMdFM in their remit as the department with policy responsibility for equality and social ... -
Essays in central bank communication and bank lending conditions for firms
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This dissertation is composed of three independent essays in the broad fields of central bank communication and the transmission of changes in bank lending conditions to firms. The first two essays examine the transmission ... -
ESRI Poverty, Income Inequality and Living Standards Spreadsheet
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Inequality in Ireland: 1987-2019
(Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2023)This report provides an in-depth analysis of wage, earnings and income trends and inequalities in Ireland over a three-decade period, spanning from 1987 to 2019. One of the significant findings of this research is the ... -
International political economy and future of multilateralism: a platform for cooperation for G20 sovereign wealth funds
(2020)This policy brief proposes the creation of a platform for cooperation among the Group of Twenty (G20) states' sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). The platform should allow for multiple practices that include long-term ... -
Low income renters and housing supports
(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2022)Rental affordability challenges for low-to-moderate income groups have been well documented. Changes to housing supports in recent years, notably the rapid expansion of Housing Assistance Payment (HAP), aim to address ... -
Energy poverty and deprivation in Ireland
(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2022)This report – funded by the Community Foundation for Ireland – explores the issue of energy poverty and deprivation in Ireland, once again to the forefront of the policy debate given recent increases in energy prices. Chapter ... -
Poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland: Second annual report
(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2022)This report is the second from an ESRI research programme funded by The Community Foundation for Ireland, which seeks to address gaps in our knowledge and understanding of poverty, income inequality and living standards ... -
Earnings-related benefits in Ireland: rationale, costs and work incentives
(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2022)Ireland is an outlier among EU countries as it does not have a strong link between previous earnings and the level of payment provided to those who have recently lost their job or are on leave from work for the short- ... -
Future trends in housing tenure and the adequacy of retirement income
(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2022)In recent years, Ireland has experienced a notable decline in homeownership and a rise in the proportion of households in private rental accommodation. Concurrently, the cost of both rents and house prices have risen ... -
Poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland
(ESRI and Community Foundation Ireland, 2023)This report is the third from an ESRI research programme funded by Community Foundation Ireland, which seeks to address gaps in our knowledge and understanding of poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland. ... -
Trends in Educational Homogamy and Heterogamy - Analyzing the Roles of Assortative Mating and Structural Opportunities using a Novel Decomposition Method
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2024)Higher education expansion has reshaped the educational composition of partner markets. Despite this notable shift in structural opportunities for mating, our understanding of how these changes have influenced marital ... -
Affecting State Legitimacy From Abroad: The Effects of Travel Policies on Citizens' Willingness to Obey Their State
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2024)This dissertation aims to examine the effects of restrictive travel policies implemented by foreign countries on citizens' evaluations of state legitimacy in electoral autocracies. This question matters because restrictive ... -
A theory of international strategic judicial dialogue: Convergence and Divergence between the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2024)International Courts interact with each other, especially by referring to each other's rulings, and the consequences of these interactions often assumed to be a progressive and stable convergence of their respective ... -
Child and adolescent digital use and well-being outcomes: evidence from an Irish birth-cohort study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2024)The rapid digitalization of society over the past decades has fundamentally changed how people socialize, work, and play. Subsequently, children and adolescents’ use of digital technologies has increased rapidly, facilitated ... -
Human Mobility In Developing Countries: Evidence From Mobile Phone Data
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This thesis examines human mobility patterns in developing countries. It leverages different types of mobile phone data enabling the observation of individuals' movements and locations at spatio-temporal scales which are ... -
Essays in Urban and Development Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This thesis consists of three essays at the intersection of urban, environmental, transport, development and labour economics. Each chapter tackles important questions regarding the role of new active mobility transport ... -
Essays in International Macroeconomics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This thesis comprises three essays. The first essay (Chapter 2) analyzes the shock absorption role of external positions by looking at the relation between external stock imbalances and their currency of denomination. The ...
