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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: In this paper, the authors test whether bank lending constrained small and medium-sized enterprises are more likely to use or apply for alternative external finance including trade credit, informal lending, loans from other companies, market financing (issued debt or equity) and state grants.
303 citations
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TL;DR: This paper examined the determinants of technological innovation and its impact on firm labor productivity across Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, and Uruguay) using micro data from innovation surveys.
289 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that current levels of youth unemployment need to be understood in the context of increased labor market flexibility, an expansion of higher education, youth migration, and family legacies of long-term unemployment.
Abstract: Current levels of youth unemployment need to be understood in the context of increased labor market flexibility, an expansion of higher education, youth migration, and family legacies of long-term unemployment. Compared with previous recessions, European-wide policies and investments have significantly increased with attempts to support national policies. By mapping these developments and debates, we illustrate the different factors shaping the future of European labor markets. We argue that understanding youth unemployment requires a holistic approach that combines an analysis of changes in the economic sphere around labor market flexibility, skills attainment, and employer demand, as well as understanding the impact of family legacies affecting increasingly polarized trajectories for young people today. The success of EU policy initiatives and investments will be shaped by the ability of national actors to implement these effectively.
289 citations
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TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between four flexible working arrangements; flexitime, part-time hours, working from home and job sharing, and two key employee outcomes; work pressure and work-life conflict, using data from the first national survey of employees in Ireland in 2003.
Abstract: Recent rapid economic growth in Ireland has been accompanied by a strong surge in the number of women in employment, and this has led to a significant increase in the proportion of dual-earner families. These changes have brought the issue of reconciliation between work and care commitments to the fore. Flexible working arrangements in firms have been identified as one important means of balancing work and other commitments. In this article we investigate the relationship between four flexible working arrangements; flexitime, part-time hours, working from home and job sharing, and two key employee outcomes; work pressure and work–life conflict, using data from the first national survey of employees in Ireland in 2003. Our results show that while part-time work and flexitime tend to reduce work pressure and work–life conflict, working from home is associated with greater levels of both work pressure and work–life conflict. We conclude that it is important to distinguish between flexible working arrangements to discover their potential for reducing work pressure and work–life conflict.
283 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical framework is created and used to implement adaptation as a decision variable into the DICE model, and the adaptation cost functions are derived in the AD-DICE model.
Abstract: Integrated Assessment Models (IAMS) have helped us over the past decade to understand the interactions between the environment and the economy in the context of climate change. Although it has also long been recognized that adaptation is a powerful and necessary tool to combat the adverse effects of climate change, most IAMs have not explicitly included the option of adaptation in combating climate change. This paper adds to the IAM and climate change literature by explicitly including adaptation in an IAM, thereby making the trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation visible. Specifically, a theoretical framework is created and used to implement adaptation as a decision variable into the DICE model. We use our new AD-DICE model to derive the adaptation cost functions implicit in the DICE model. In our set-up, adaptation and mitigation decisions are separable and AD-DICE can mimic DICE when adaptation is optimal. We find that our specification of the adaptation costs is robust with respect to the mitigation policy scenarios. Our numerical results show that adaptation is a powerful option to combat climate change, as it reduces most of the potential costs of climate change in earlier periods, while mitigation does so in later periods.
277 citations
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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 |