Welcome
Welcome to the ESRI Newsletter for January 2012. In this issue you will find details of our latest and forthcoming publications, events and news. If you require any further information on the ESRI's activities please visit our website at www.esri.ie, or email admin@esri.ie.
Forthcoming Events
(Please note that the dates of forthcoming events may change. Please check our website regularly.
The Forty-First ESRI Geary Lecture: "Skill, Job Control and the Quality of Work: the Changing Research Agenda"
Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay,
Dublin 2
Date: Wednesday 22/02/2012; Time: 4.00 pm.
The Forty-First ESRI Geary Lecture will be delivered by Professor Duncan Gallie, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Attendance is free but please register by emailing your name, organisation and contact telephone number to admin@esri.ie. The Geary Lecture is organised each year by the ESRI and honours Dr R. C. Geary (1896 –1983), the first Director of the Institute. Dr Geary is regarded as the most eminent Irish statistician of the twentieth century. More.
ESRI Conference on Economic Renewal: "Financial Stability After the Crisis"
Venue: ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2.
Date: Wednesday 29 February, 2012. Time: 8.30 – 13.00
Financial Stability After the Crisis is the theme of the third in a special series of half-day conferences on economic renewal, hosted by the ESRI. The Conference will lead off with a paper from the new Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland on macro-prudential policy in Ireland. This will be followed by two papers that explore what current international and domestic evidence can tell us about policies to prevent house-price bubbles and to improve consumer decision-making in financial services. Papers will be followed by a response from an expert in the field and an open Q&A session.
To book a place at this Conference please register here by Friday 24 February 2012. Visit our website to view the full programme and for more information. The Economic Renewal Conference Series is supported by FBD Trust. The final half-day Conference in this series is scheduled for 28 March, 2012. It will explore the issue of Economic Adjustment.
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Latest Publications
Economic Assessment of the Euro Area: Winter 2011/2012 Report
FitzGerald, J., Znuderl, N., Duffy, D., CASE (Poland), CPB (Netherlands), DIW Berlin (Germany), ETLA (Finland), The Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Germany), NIESR (United Kingdom), OFCE (France), PROMETEIA (Italy), WIFO (Austria), ESRI Survey and Statistical Report Series No. 29, Europe: EUROFRAME - European Forecasting Network, 18/1/2012.
Influences on 9-year-old's Learning: Home, School and Community
McCoy, S., Smyth, E., Quail, A., Growing Up in Ireland, Child Cohort
Report No. 3, 26/01/12.
Pharmaceuticals Delivery in Ireland. Getting a Bigger Bang for the Buck
Gorecki, P. K., Nolan, A., Brick, A., Lyons, S., ESRI Research Series No. 24, Dublin: ESRI, 24/1/2012.
The Distributional Effects of Austerity Measures: A Comparison of Six EU Countries
Callan, T., Leventi, C. (Athens University of Economics and Business), Levy, H. (ISER University), Matsaganis, M. (Athens University of Economics and Business), Paulus, A. (ISER University), Sutherland, H. (ISER University), Research Note 2/2011 of the European Observatory on the Social Situation and Demography, European Commission, 30/11/2011.
The Primary Classroom: Insights from the Growing Up in Ireland Study
McCoy, S., Smyth E., Banks, J., ESRI and the NCCA, 18/1/2012.
Consumer Sentiment Index
Latest Consumer Sentiment Index report.
"Corporate Expenditure on Environmental Protection"
Haller, S., Murphy, L., Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 51, No. 2, February 2012, pp 277-296, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10640-011-9499-1, Published online 22 August 2011.
"Measuring Discrimination Facing Ethnic Minority Candidates: An Irish Experiment"
McGinnity, F., Lunn, P., Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 25, No. 4, December 2011, pp693-708, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017011419722, 31/12/11.
Nationwide (UK) Ireland Savings Index
Latest report produced jointly by the ESRI and Nationwide (UK) Ireland.
"Paying for Hospital Care: the Experience With Implementing Activity-based Funding in Five European Countries"
O'Reilly, J., Busse, R. (Berlin University of Technology), Hakkinen, U. (National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland), Or, Z. (Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics, France), Street, A. (University of York), Wiley, M. M., Health Economics, Policy and Law, Vol. 7, Special Issue 1, January 2012, pp73-101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1744133111000314, 6/1/12.
"Simply Academic? Why Children with Special Educational Needs Don't Like School"
McCoy, S., Banks, J., European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08856257.2011.640487, Published online 16 January 2012.
ESRI Research Bulletin -
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ESRI Economic Renewal Series Papers - To view all ESRI Economic Renewal Series papers visit our website.
Newspaper/Magazine Articles by ESRI staff -
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ESRI Working Papers -
To view the latest ESRI Working Papers please visit our website at www.esri.ie.
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Forthcoming Publications
(Please note that the publication dates of forthcoming publications may change. Please check the website regularly).
Annual Report on Migration and International Protection Statistics for Ireland: 2009
Joyce, C., Dublin: ESRI, February 2012.
Practical Measures for Reducing Irregular Migration: Ireland
Quinn, E., Kingston, G., Dublin: ESRI, February 2012.
Quarterly Economic Commentary, Winter 2011
Durkan, J., Duffy, D., O'Sullivan, C., ESRI Forecasting Series, 15 February 2012.
"Disproportionality in Special Education: Identifying Children with Emotional Behavioural Difficulties in Irish Primary Schools"
Banks, J., Shevlin, M. (TCD), McCoy, S., European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2012, 28/02/12.
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New Projects
Equality and Discrimination in Ireland: Evidence from the QNHS Equality Module 2010
Frances McGinnity, Dorothy Watson, Philip O’Connell, Elish Kelly and Gillian Kingston.
The ESRI have been commissioned to conduct an analysis of equality and discrimination in Ireland using the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) Equality Module 2010. The project includes one major research report on ‘The Experience of Discrimination in Ireland’ and two supplementary papers on ‘Ethnicity and Nationality in the Irish Labour Market, and ‘People with Disabilities in the Irish Labour Market’. The project builds on previous analysis of equality and discrimination using data from 2004, and selected findings will be compared between the two years. This research project is co-funded by the Equality Authority and by the European Union Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity - PROGRESS (2007-2013).
Literacy, Numeracy and Unemployment
Philip J. O'Connell, Seamus McGuinness, Elish Kelly
The objective of the project is to provide evidence on the impact that literacy/numeracy difficulties have on unemployed individuals’ likelihood of exiting unemployment to the labour market, and to assess how this impact differs among men and women and between younger and older benefit claimants. In addition, the study will investigate the impact that literacy/numeracy difficulties have on access to training and employment schemes among unemployed individuals, along with the effect that such difficulties have on the impact of labour market training programmes for the unemployed. The project will also look closely at the separate effects of age, gender and educational attainment on literacy/numeracy difficulties.
The project, which is funded by the National Adult Literacy Agency, will be based on an analysis of data that was originally collected to develop a national profiling system to accurately identify those at risk of becoming long-term unemployed. This profiling dataset, which contains a variety of socio-economic information on all individuals that become unemployed between September and December 2006, is combined with data from the Live Register and with information on participation in FÁS training and employment schemes.
Literacy and Numeracy Difficulties in the Irish Workplace
Philip J. O'Connell, Seamus McGuinness, Elish Kelly
The aim of the project is to assess the extent of literacy and numeracy needs among employees with low levels of educational attainment in Ireland, along with how these needs vary between population sub-groups (e.g. by gender, age, occupation, nationality) and by economic sector. The study will also provide evidence on the impact that literacy and numeracy difficulties have on both employees’ earnings and firms’ labour costs.
The study, which is funded by the National Adult Literacy Agency, will utilise data from the October 2006 National Employment Survey (NES), which is a large nationally representative survey carried out by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) to collect information on employment and earnings from both businesses and their employees. The NES contains a rich array of socio-demographic and firm-level information. In addition to this, the October 2006 NES collected data on employees training needs, along with the skills areas that employers felt that there were acute shortages in their existing workforce and the skills areas that needed upgrading.
View details of research in the ESRI.
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Other News
Launch of Growing Up in Ireland Report "Influences on Children’s Learning: Home, School and Community".
On Thursday 26 January 2012 Ms Frances Fitzgerald T.D., Minister for Children and Youth Affairs and Mr. Ruairi Quinn T.D., Minister for Education and Skills launched the Growing Up in Ireland report Influences on Children’s Learning: Home, School and Community, by Selina McCoy, Amanda Quail and Emer Smyth (ESRI). More..
Growing Up in Ireland Data Workshop
Growing Up in Ireland hosted a Data Workshop to promote and support the use of both the Child Cohort and Infant Cohort datasets on Friday 27th January 2012. More ..
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