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The Changing Workplace
(ESRI, 2011)How are Irish workplaces changing? Recent reports give a detailed picture, based on two nationally representative surveys ? one of employers and another of employees ? carried out in 2009. These surveys replicate many ... -
Charging for Public Health Services in Ireland: Why and How?
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Checking the Price Tag on Catastrophe: The Social Cost of Carbon Under Non-linear Climate Response
(ESRI, 29/06/2011)Research into the social cost of carbon emissions ? the marginal social damage from a tonne of emitted carbon ? has tended to focus on ?best guess? scenarios. Such scenarios generally ignore the potential for low-probability, ... -
Choice, Price and Service Characteristics in the Irish Broadband Market
(ESRI, 15/05/2012)Using detailed plan-level data, this paper examines the choice, price and quality of broadband services available to consumers in Ireland over time. We find modest geographical (county level) variation in broadband services. ... -
Choice, price and service characteristics in the Irish broadband market
(2013)Using detailed plan-level data, this paper examines the choice, price and quality of broadband services available to consumers in Ireland over time. We find modest geographical (county level) variation in broadband services. ... -
Choices and Challenges: Moving from Junior Cycle to Senior Cycle Education
(The Liffey Press in association with ESRI, NCCA and Department of Education & Skills, 09/09/2011)This study examines the experiences of young people as they make the transition from junior cycle (lower secondary) to senior cycle (upper secondary) education. It is part of a series of reports which explore stu- dent ... -
Civic and political engagement among young adults in Ireland
(ESRI, 2023-11-14)International research has shown that civic engagement, that is, volunteering in local services, can benefit both young people and their communities, while political engagement can strengthen a society’s democratic culture. ... -
Clean Air Together Dublin: impact on air quality awareness, attitudes and behaviour
(ESRI, 2023-10-17)Clean Air Together (CAT) is a citizen science project where people voluntarily sign up to measure levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution in their local area. In this study, we assessed the impact of CAT on awareness, ... -
The Climate Change Response Bill 2010: An Assessment
(ESRI, 25/01/2011)Climate change is an important problem. It would be desirable to have legislation that would put Ireland on a low-cost and equitable trajectory to a zero-carbon economy. The draft Climate Change Response Bill 2010 will not ... -
Climate Policy Under Fat-Tailed Risk: An Application of Dice
(ESRI, 2011)Uncertainty plays a significant role in evaluating climate policy, and fat-tailed uncertainty may dominate policy advice. Should we make our utmost effort to prevent the arbitrarily large impacts of climate change under ... -
Climate Policy Under Fat-Tailed Risk: An Application of Dice
(ESRI, 2011)Uncertainty plays a significant role in evaluating climate policy, and fat-tailed uncertainty may dominate policy advice. Should we make our utmost effort to prevent the arbitrarily large impacts of climate change under ... -
Climate policy, interconnection and carbon leakage: the effect of unilateral UK policy on electricity and GHG emissions in Ireland
(ESRI, 10/06/2013)This paper examines the effect on Ireland?s Single Electricity Market (SEM) of the UK?s unilateral policy to implement a carbon price floor for electricity generation based on fossil-fuel. We simulate electricity markets ... -
Clonsast Social Survey
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Combining Public Sector and Economic Reform
(2012)This paper argues that it is important for public sector reform to be undertaken in tandem with economic reform because the two reform agendas overlap. Ignoring the overlap could lead to services being delivered efficiently ... -
Community Schools
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Commuting Behaviour and Car Ownership in Ireland
(ESRI, 2010)Rapid economic, demographic and social change in Ireland over the past fifteen years, with associated increases in car dependence and congestion, has focused policy on encouraging more sustainable forms of travel. Data for ... -
A comparative assessment of minimum wage employment in Europe
(ESRI, 2021-04-08)Using data for 2017 and 2018, this report provides a comparative analysis of minimum wage employment in Ireland, relative to a selection of other European countries with a statutory minimum wage. We estimate that just under ... -
A comparative assessment of minimum wage employment in Europe
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Comparing migrant integration in Ireland and Northern Ireland
(ESRI, 2023-03-06)The increase in inward migration has been an important change in Ireland and Northern Ireland in recent decades. Migration can bring opportunities but also challenges. Integration not only allows immigrants to contribute ...