Browsing Nereus Consortium by Subject "J16"

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Do Dads matter? Or is it just their money that matters? Unpicking the effects of separation on educational outcomes

Walker, Ian ; Zhu, Yu (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-12)

The widely held view that separation has adverse effects on children has been the basis of important policy interventions. While a small number of analyses have been concerned with selection into divorce, no studies have ...
The impact of discriminatory legislation on Irish female unemployment flows

Harrison, Michael J. ; Strobl, Eric ; Walsh, Patrick P. (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Economics, 1995)

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 ...
Motivation, expectations and the gender pay gap for UK graduates

Chevalier, Arnaud (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2004-02)

Focussing on recent UK graduates, a wage gap of 12% is found. The unexplained component of the gap is small and a large fraction of the gap can be explained by subject choice, job characteristics, motivation and expectation ...
Students’ academic self perception

Chevalier, Arnaud ; Gibbons, Steve ; Thorpe, Andy ; Hoskins, Sherria (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-09-24)

Participation rates in higher education differ persistently between some groups in society. Using two British datasets we investigate whether this gap is rooted in students' misperception of their own and other's ability, ...