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(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003-05-31)In this paper, we are interested in the effect of pay incentives on labour turnover and productivity. Particularly we use personnel data from a panel of 400 shops from a UK retail chain. The firm uses perfectly flat ...
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(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 ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003-10)This paper analyzes changes in Northern Irish evangelical identity since the 1998 Belfast Agreement. Drawing on previous studies of Northern Irish evangelicalism, it constructs three schematic models that test hypotheses ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003)There are a surprising number of initiatives taking place in Europe which encourage older people to use ICT and in this way promote e-learning. Training is vital for the successful uptake of ICTs and the future of e-learning ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003-05)Non-random item nonresponse makes identification of parameters problematic. Such nonresponse can occur with respect to both dependent and conditioning variables. A method often used to reduce nonresponse is that of adding ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003-02)If labour market policies aimed at people with disabilities are effective, we should observe no significant difference in labour market outcomes between disable and non-disable individuals. This paper examines the impact ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003-07)This paper provides evidence of heterogeneity in the returns to higher education in the UK. Attending the most prestigious universities leads to a wage premium of up to 6% for males. The rise in participation in higher ...
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Does an exercise and incontinence intervention save healthcare costs in a nursing home population? (Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2003)OBJECTIVES:To determine whether an intervention that combines low-intensity exercise and incontinence care offsets some of its costs by reducing the incidence of selected health conditions in nursing home residents. D ...