This article uses case study data from a major Irish city council to
investigate and explain public sector worker attitudes towards social
partnership at local and national level. It is argued that the more
sceptical ...
Hardiman, Niamh(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change, 2003-11)
Ireland's rate of growth and employment creation during the 1990s far outstripped performance in the rest of the OECD. To what degree is this attributable to chance fluctuations in the international economy, the coincidental ...
O'Brien, Valerie(Ireland. Eastern Health and Social Services Board, 2000-08)
This report has been commissioned to appraise and draw together the main findings of Phase One of a Pilot Project on Family Group Conferences (FGCs) in Ireland. The pilot project was conducted in three community care areas ...
Whether all parties to the employment relationship benefit from workplace partnership and with what consequences is one of the most persistent research questions in industrial relations scholarship. Three dominant theoretical ...
This article explores the factors behind the Irish economic renaissance of the 1990s. These include the fiscal correction of the 1980s, the availability of an ample supply of well-educated labour, a competitive exchange ...
Hardiman, Niamh(The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2009-11-26)
The international financial crisis manifests itself in Ireland not only as a crisis of the banking
system, but also as a major fiscal crisis, aggravated by years of soft revenue policy and a
housing bubble that has burst ...
Aim. This paper is a report of a study to understand the perspectives of two sets of stakeholders, namely clinical nursing providers and nursing academics, on how registered nurses should be selected for Master's degree ...
Neary, J. Peter(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1999-11-10)
I consider the implications of recent research for R&D policy in developing countries. Typical new growth models, which assume free entry and no strategic behaviour by R&D producers, are less appropriate for policy guidance ...