Over the last 10-15 years female labour force participation rates have increased substantially in Ireland. At the same time there has been a large increase in wage inequality but a decline in total household income ...
Ireland provides us with a unique case-study of the effects of discrimination in the labour market. Since the ninteen-sixties and until the late nineteen-eighties, gradual reforms of explicit discrimination against females ...
Most analyses of wage discrimination have followed the traditional Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition of wage differences into endowment and discrimination components. This approach has neglected the possibility of wage ...
This study has a double focus, substantive and methodological. Substantively, it attempts to apply and test a fairly well known model of labour supply. From a methodological point of view, it shows how the Linear Probability ...
Walsh, Brendan M.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1992-08-24)
This paper studies the effects of changes in labour force particiapation rates on the size and structure of the Irish labour force over the period 1971-1991. The rise in participation rates among females aged 25-54 and the ...
Most analyses of wage discrimination have followed the traditional Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition of wage differences into endowment and discrimination components. This approach has neglected the possibility of wage ...
Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm(Institute for Fiscal Studies2000, The Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2000-04-20)
This paper uses pooled cross-section data on recent school leavers in Ireland to model
the determinants of labour market status and wages for young adults. Firstly we use a
multinomial logit model to analyze whether ...