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Economic and Social Research Institute
Nonprofit•Dublin, Ireland•
About: Economic and Social Research Institute is a nonprofit organization based out in Dublin, Ireland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & European union. The organization has 425 authors who have published 1530 publications receiving 41567 citations.
Topics: Population, European union, Irish, Poverty, Health care
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TL;DR: This article used longitudinal data from Australia to examine the extent to which overskilling is a transitory phenomenon and found that while over-skilled workers are much more likely to want to quit their current job, they are also relatively unconfident of finding an improved job match.
Abstract: This paper uses longitudinal data from Australia to examine the extent to which overskilling – the extent to which work-related skills and abilities are utilized in current employment – is a transitory phenomenon. The results suggest that while overskilled workers are much more likely to want to quit their current job, they are also relatively unconfident of finding an improved job match. Furthermore, some of the greater mobility observed among overskilled workers is due to involuntary job separations, and even in instances where job separations are voluntary, the majority of moves do not result in improved skills matches.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the adoption timepath of network gas as a heating fuel is examined by merging a unique dataset on gas network roll-out over time, with other geo-coded data and employing an instrumental variables technique in order to simultaneously model supply and demand.
Abstract: In order to better understand the potential for both policy and technological improvements to aid carbon abatement, long-term historical information on the time-path of transition from more traditional to cleaner fuels is useful. This is a relatively understudied element of the fuel switching literature in both developed and emerging economies. This research adds to this literature by examing the adoption time-path of network gas as a heating fuel. We merge a unique dataset on gas network roll-out over time, with other geo-coded data and employ an instrumental variables technique in order to simultaneously model supply and demand. Results indicate a non-linear relationship between the proportion of households using gas as their primary means of central heating and the length of time the network has been in place in each area. Proximity to the gas network, peat bogs, and areas which have banned the consumption of bituminous coal also affect gas connections. Variations in socioeconomic and dwelling characteristics at area level can also help explain connections to the gas network. Simulations are then performed to examine how network expansion might affect connections and carbon emissions.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a costbenefit analysis of a major water investment program in Ireland is presented, where the authors estimate the level of willingness to pay that would have been required to justify the investments.
Abstract: Mixed findings emerge from this ex post Cost-Benefit Analysis of a major water investment programme in Ireland. Water supply and conservation investments, where most benefits were internal, generally proved worthwhile. Wastewater investments could not be analysed fully due to lack of environmental data. Here the authors estimated the level of ‘willingness-to-pay’ that would have been required to ‘justify’ the investments. In some cases the required level seemed implausibly high, raising questions as to prioritisation of projects. The authors recommend a more systematic approach to recording environmental benefits in future investment programmes, the next likely wave being in new EU member states seeking to meet environmental standards. The EU, as likely co-funder of these investments, should require systematic recording of environmental benefits.
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TL;DR: Using a feminist institutionalist perspective, and drawing on rich data from one in seven nine-year-old children in Ireland, this paper found that parents' and teachers' beliefs and evaluations of young people are important.
Abstract: Parents' and teachers’ beliefs and evaluations of young people are important. Using a feminist institutionalist perspective, and drawing on rich data from one in seven nine-year-old children in Ire...
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Richard S.J. Tol | 116 | 695 | 48587 |
Mario Coccia | 72 | 398 | 12366 |
Marco Vivarelli | 58 | 265 | 9909 |
Joel W. Grube | 54 | 193 | 11499 |
Leslie Daly | 54 | 233 | 16133 |
René Kemp | 53 | 185 | 16666 |
Mark Wooden | 49 | 318 | 8783 |
Brian Nolan | 48 | 369 | 11371 |
Richard J. T. Klein | 47 | 126 | 18096 |
Christopher T. Whelan | 46 | 189 | 6687 |
Patrick Honohan | 44 | 234 | 9853 |
Richard Breen | 43 | 148 | 11007 |
Richard Layte | 42 | 212 | 7281 |
Katrin Rehdanz | 40 | 161 | 6453 |
Emer Smyth | 39 | 168 | 4245 |