The main objectives of social assistance bene fits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social reintegration, can be seriously compromised if support is difficult to access.
While recent studies point to ...
Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-07)
While financial incentives usually have a signifi cant effect on the labor supply of married women
and single mothers, the evidence about the participation elasticity of childless singles, and single males
especially, ...
Barry, Frank(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1995-02)
Wage stickiness is frequently cited as a justification (temporary) protection when a sector is hit by an adverse shock. The present paper, rather than assuming arbitrary wage stickiness, instead models it as an outcome of ...
The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the anti-poverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on interview-based data, potentially ...
The motivation behind many Information Retrieval systems is to identify and present relevant information to people given their current goals and needs. Learning about user preferences and access patterns recent technologies ...
This paper explores the extent to which the 1993 Hague Convention assists in resolving ethical dilemmas for social workers involved in inter-country adoption practice.
This guidance is not intended to be exhaustive or mandatory. The aim is to assist practitioners engaged in evaluation assessments requested under Section 20 of the Child Care Act, 1991. The Guidance should not be seen as ...
In 1997 the Irish Government adopted the National Anti-Poverty Strategy (NAPS), a global target for the reduction of poverty which illuminates a range of issues relating to official poverty targets. The Irish target is ...
In 1997 the Irish government adopted the National Anti-Poverty Strategy (NAPS), a global target for the reduction of poverty which illuminates a range of issues relating to official poverty targets. The Irish target is ...
Providing learners with a list of disparate search results is not always conducive to learning. In particular, this approach lacks learning structure, and learners have to sift through lists of resources in order to make ...