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Are the marketed services more labour-intensive than industry? (2009)

O'Riordan, William K.

Are the marketed services more labour-intensive than industry? (2009)

O'Riordan, William K.

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The binding of this item renders some marginal text unreadable. A hard copy is available in UCD Library at GEN 330.08 IR/UNI

http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1422

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Case Study on Intreo: The one-stop-shop for job seekers in Ireland. Case Studies on Innovation and Reform in the Irish Public Sector (2018)

Köppe, Stephan; O'Connell, Philip J.

Case Study on Intreo: The one-stop-shop for job seekers in Ireland. Case Studies on Innovation and Reform in the Irish Public Sector (2018)

Köppe, Stephan; O'Connell, Philip J.

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This case study analyses the implementation of Intreo, the one-stop shop for jobseekers in Ireland, between 2010 and 2016. The implementation followed an iterative and incremental process, where the Department of Social Protection displayed a high adaptive capacity. Prior to the establishment of Intreo, benefit payments and activation services were highly fragmented at the organisational and policy levels. During the fiscal and economic crisis several reform strands came together that led to an organisational merger, an integrated one-stop shop service model for jobseekers and innovative alignment of labour market activation measures. The key challenges highlighted in the study are change management with limited resources, complex industrial relations negotiations to redeploy staff and designing a new service, while catering for an existing and increasing client base. Throughout the implementation process senior management and the core change team found innovative and flexible solut...

http://hdl.handle.net/10197/9318

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Defining and regulating zero hours work:lessons from a liberal market economy (2019)

Ryan, Lorraine; Lavelle, Jonathan; O’Sullivan, Michelle; McMahon, Juliet; Murphy, Carol...

Defining and regulating zero hours work:lessons from a liberal market economy (2019)

Ryan, Lorraine; Lavelle, Jonathan; O’Sullivan, Michelle; McMahon, Juliet; Murphy, Caroline; Turner, Thomas; Gunnigle, Patrick; O’Brien, Mike

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The apparent rise in precarious work has received increased attention in a number of countries in recent decades. However, studies highlight the difficulties of both defining and capturing the extent of precarious work. In this paper, we report on a study of zero hours contracts in Ireland and drawing on the varieties of capitalism framework, examine the lessons for both LMEs and CMEs. The study found that zero hours contracts, as defined by Irish legislation, were not common; however, evidence of ‘If and When’ contracts emerged during the course of the research. We outline our key findings showing how information garnered from qualitative research provided nuanced insights on the reality of precarious work, which was not captured in the national data set. This is important for measuring the extent of precarious work in future studies.

http://hdl.handle.net/10344/7894

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Employment and competitiveness (2009)

Walsh, Brendan M.

Employment and competitiveness (2009)

Walsh, Brendan M.

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The binding of this item renders some marginal text unreadable
A hard copy is available in UCD Library at GEN 330.08 IR/UNI

http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1355

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Gender and the Workforce (2014)

O'Sullivan, Sara

Gender and the Workforce (2014)

O'Sullivan, Sara

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http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5694

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Local labour market diversity and business innovation: evidence from Irish manufacturing businesses (2012)

McGuirk, Helen; Jordan, Declan

Local labour market diversity and business innovation: evidence from Irish manufacturing businesses (2012)

McGuirk, Helen; Jordan, Declan

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This paper estimates the effect of diversity within local labour markets on business-level innovation. Using survey data and Irish census data, the paper explores whether the diversity of human capital at county level is associated with higher innovation output. Diversity in age, nationality and educational attainment is measured using an index of heterogeneity and its effect on business innovation is estimated using an innovation production function approach. It is found that diversity in nationality and educational attainment is positively associated with the probability of a business product innovating. The findings also suggest that greater external labour market diversity and greater levels of internal third-level education may be substitutes. Where a business is in a diverse location, it may not require higher levels of educational attainment among its workforce to source knowledge for product innovation.

http://hdl.handle.net/10468/2437

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Monetary shocks with nominal wage stickiness and variable effort (2009)

Walsh, Frank

Monetary shocks with nominal wage stickiness and variable effort (2009)

Walsh, Frank

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Wallers (1989) model which incorporates an effort augmented production function into a traditional Keynesian analysis of supply and demand shocks is generalised by not restricting the elasticity of substitution between effort and employment to be unity. This significantly changes the results in that unanticipated monetary shocks will affect output and indexing real wages will increase the variation of output in response to supply shocks. Involuntary unemployment is not necessary for demand shocks to affect employment and output in this model.

http://hdl.handle.net/10197/923

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Monetary shocks with variable effort (2008)

Walsh, Frank

Monetary shocks with variable effort (2008)

Walsh, Frank

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In a model with rigid nominal wages, full information and competitive product markets, I show that when an effort augmented production function is incorporated into an analysis of supply and demand shocks, the outcomes are in line with traditional Keynesian analysis for a wide range of parameter values. Monetary shocks can increase output and employment.

http://hdl.handle.net/10197/190

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The determinants of reservation wages (2008)

Hogan, Vincent (Vincent Peter)

The determinants of reservation wages (2008)

Hogan, Vincent (Vincent Peter)

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Most theories of involuntary unemployment predict that the equilibrium wage in the labor market will be greater than the reservation wage of the unemployed. These theories concentrate on explaining why the labor market does not clear, with the market wage falling to the level of the reservation wage, as predicted by the classical paradigm. Relatively little, however, has been said about the behavior of reservation wages. This paper seeks to fill the gap in the literature. We look at the empirical determinants of the reservation wage and suggest what this implies for the evolution of the natural rate of unemployment.

http://hdl.handle.net/10197/326

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The sexual division of labor within households revisited : comparisons of couples and roommates (2013)

Jepsen, Christopher; Jepsen, Lisa K.

The sexual division of labor within households revisited : comparisons of couples and roommates (2013)

Jepsen, Christopher; Jepsen, Lisa K.

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Becker’s theories of labor-market specialization predict that couples will allocate the time of the man mainly to the labor market and the time of the woman mainly to the home market. Previous studies fail to find evidence to support this allocation of labor. We compare cohabiting couples to roommates to study the extent to which couples specialize. Roommates make an interesting comparison group. Like couples, they live together. Unlike couples, they have no incentives to specialize with respect to labor-market traits. We include same-sex couples in our study because by definition, they are unable to specialize by gender. Couples, however, have incentives to pool household resources and to specialize. We find evidence consistent with the hypothesis that, with respect to earnings, couples specialize and roommates do not. With respect to hours worked, however, same-sex couples are indistinguishable from male and female roommates.
TS 18.07.13

http://hdl.handle.net/10197/4448

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Wage sensitivity rankings and temporal convergence (2009)

Jones, Ronald W.; Neary, J. Peter

Wage sensitivity rankings and temporal convergence (2009)

Jones, Ronald W.; Neary, J. Peter

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This paper examines the two-sector general equilibrium model under a variety of labor-market distortions, including minimum wages and factor price differentials (both absolute and proportional). We introduce a new concept - the "wage sensitivity" ranking between sectors - and show that a necessary and sufficient condition for temporal convergence locally is that the physically labor-intensive sector be the wage-sensitive sector.
A hard copy is available in UCD Library at GEN 330.08 IR/UNI

http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1449

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