Browsing Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) by Subject "Social Policy"

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    • Annual Monitoring Report on Integration 2010 

      O'CONNELL, PHILIP J.; MCGINNITY, FRANCES; QUINN, EMMA; DONNELLY, NORA (ESRI/The Integration Centre, 04/05/2011)
      This Integration Monitor, the ?rst of its kind in Ireland, seeks to measure migrant integration in four life domains ? employment, education, social inclusion and active citizenship. The indicators follow those ...

    • The Changing Workplace 

      WATSON, DOROTHY; O'CONNELL, PHILIP; RUSSELL, HELEN (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 ...

    • Designing Primary Schools for the Future 

      Smyth, Emer; Darmody, Merike (ESRI, 2010)
      International research has indicated the importance of school design for pupil engagement, learning and achievement. Aspects of the school environment, including school and classroom density, class size, quality of lighting, ...

    • Equality and Discrimination: Lessons from a Research Programme and a Conference 

      MC GINNITY, FRANCES; RUSSELL, HELEN (ESRI, 2011)
      Despite legislation outlawing discrimination across the EU, inequalities between groups appear to be an enduring feature of Irish and European societies. The extent to which inequality is due to discrimination is a matter ...

    • The Impact of Social Partnership on Ireland's Competitiveness 

      KELLY, ELISH MARY; MC GUINNESS, SEAMUS; O'CONNELL, PHILIP (ESRI, 2010)
      Social partnership has been a central facet of Irish society since 1987. In order to support economic growth, a principal objective of the partnership process has been to achieve moderate increases in wages in exchange for ...

    • Monitoring Poverty Trends in Ireland 2004-2007: Key Issues for Children, People of Working Age and Older People 

      RUSSELL, HELEN; MAITRE, BERTRAND; NOLAN, BRIAN (ESRI, 07/09/2010)
      This report monitors the evolution of poverty in Ireland from 2004 to 2007. This period marks the end of the first ten year National Anti?Poverty Strategy (NAPS) in Ireland which ran from 1997 to 2007, and marks the beginning ...

    • Providing Quality Pharmacy Services: Good Intentions Are Not Enough 

      GORECKI, PAUL (ESRI, 2010)
      Elected representatives, like consumers, want reliable good quality medical services. Pharmacy services are no exception. Providing sound advice on which drug to take for a minor ailment, or the common side effects of a ...

    • Public and Private Utilisation of In-Patient Beds in Irish Acute Public Hospitals 

      O'REILLY, JACQUELINE; WILEY, MIRIAM (ESRI, 2011)
      Health care systems in many developed countries have services financed and provided by both public and private sectors. In Ireland, though, the public/private mix is atypical: a private patient can be treated in an acute ...

    • A Social Portrait of People with Disabilities in Ireland 

      WATSON, DOROTHY (Department of Social Protection and ESRI, 2011)
      This report ? A Social Portrait of People with Disabilities in Ireland ? examines the circumstances of people with disabilities in Ireland. It is one of a series of Social Portraits on vulnerable groups in Ireland commissioned ...