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Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace: Policy, Practice and Prevention in the Publicly Funded Arts in Northern Ireland
Get PDFThis study takes as its subject the issue of bullying and harassment in the UK arts sector. The research comprises a discussion of the organisational antibullying and harassment policies in place at two leading Belfast-based arts institutions, and an analysis of the findings from interviews carried out with staff at these institutions regarding attitudes to bullying and harassment in their specific work place and in the arts sector more generally. The analysis of these interviews identifies and discusses a number of factors that contribute to the specific nature of bullying and harassment found in the arts. These include: precarious employment practices, charismatic leadership styles and artistic temperaments, and male dominated environments, in addition to documenting and discussing attitudes towards these issues
The Long-term Consequences of the Irish Marriage Bar
Get PDFA Marriage Bar is the requirement that women in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. Ireland had a Marriage Bar in place until the 1970s. In 2014/2015, women participating in the The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing were asked – for the first time in a nationally representative survey – specific questions about their experience of the Marriage Bar. In this paper, we use the information from the TILDA respondents for two purposes. The first is to investigate the extent of the Marriage Bar in Ireland. Our analysis suggests that the Marriage Bar was widespread and not confined to specific sectors or occupations (such as the civil service). The second purpose is to investigate the long-term consequences of the Marriage Bar. We do so by comparing the outcomes of women who were affected by the Marriage Bar with the outcomes of women who were not affected by the Marriage Bar. Regression analysis shows that women affected by the Marriage Bar have shorter working lives, lower individual income but higher household wealth at present, more children and more educated children. However, there are no statistically significant differences in the current health status of the two groups of women. The differences in long-term outcomes do not appear to be confounded by the endogeneity of marriage, education, employment and occupational choices
Modelling and Measuring Gains from Labour Market Desegregation in Northern Ireland
Get PDFOver the past decades, Catholic-Protestant relations in Northern Ireland have gradually improved. Agglomeration theories would predict that the resulting workplace desegregation would increase productivity. This paper presents a model of the impact of labour force segregation on the agglomeration benefits of matching. The paper then provides the first thorough, micro-level estimate of employment desegregation in Northern Ireland since 2001. Finally, the calibrated model estimates the effect of desegregation on output, wages, and number of firms. The model estimates that each percentage point decrease in segregation would increase net output by 0.04 per cent to 0.29 per cent
Linking Sustainable Development Assessment in Ireland and the European Union with Economic Theory
Get PDFEconomists offer what is arguably the most internally consistent framework for sustainable development assessment, the so-called “capital approach”. To operationalise the capital approach, measures of the changes in comprehensive national wealth (Genuine Savings) are required. In this paper, we present estimates of Ireland’s Genuine Savings using the updated public spending code for direction and compare our results with existing estimates in the literature. For practical sustainability assessment, no single indicator is capable of providing an all-encompassing answer, but as we demonstrate, the current monitoring of sustainable development in Ireland and across the EU lacks coherence. We suggest potential paths forward for sustainability policy and assessment that preserve the link with economic theory. We show that regardless of the viewpoint taken on sustainability, the capital approach can provide guidance for a coherent assessment framework
Announcement: 2020 Brendan Walsh Prize
Get PDFThe 2020 Brendan Walsh Prize has been awarded to Thorsten Schneider (University of Leipzig) for his paper “Partnership Dissolution after Childbirth in Ireland: On the Importance of Pregnancy Intentions”. The Brendan Walsh Prize was inaugurated in 2018 to select the best paper published in The Economic and Social Review in the previous year. The prize includes €1,000 and a certificate. The selection was made by the following sub-committee of the Economic and Social Studies Council: Adele Bergin (Economic and Social Research Institute), John Cullinan (NUI Galway), Aedín Doris (Maynooth University), David Madden (UCD), and Yvonne McCarthy (Central Bank of Ireland)
Balancing the Effectiveness and Costs of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Advanced Cancer
Get PDFConventional cancer therapeutics, while having transformed the survival of patients diagnosed with early stage cancer, have failed to produce similar results in patients diagnosed with more advanced cancer. It is for this reason that the arrival of immunotherapy has generated such a visceral interest in the field of oncology. Labelled ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ by Science in 2013, the field of immunotherapy has continued to grow exponentially, and promising preclinical results have translated into efficacious results in clinical trials, particularly in patients with end-stage disease. This has culminated in an ever-growing list of approvals for agents which have been designed to harness the power of the immune system. Immune checkpoint inhibitors in particular are regarded as potent new tools in the cancer therapeutics arsenal and have produced remarkable results in clinical trials in various cancer types. However, in the context of their increasing use in combination therapy and their remarkably high cost:benefit ratio, it must be asked whether these immune checkpoint inhibitors are a realistic solution to an ever increasing cancer burden. Is their price just a little too steep to pay
Industrial Policy in Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future
Get PDFIn this survey the experience of industrial policy in Northern Ireland is considered and the institutional underpinnings are highlighted. Unlike the rest of the UK, Northern Ireland had a period of devolution (c.1920-1972), which particularly after 1945 was associated with interventionism. In surveying the past, present, and future of such industrial policies, it is important to note the fact that supply-side weaknesses predated the Troubles and while much economic progress has been made since 1998, institutional issues remain. Brexit will provide additional challenges to the formulation of effective industrial policy
In Diversity is Strength - Equality, Human Rights and Diversity in the Arts
Get PDFA review of the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon Equality, Human Rights and Diversity Policy and Strategy and three year Action Plan for 2019 to 2021
The Base of Party Political Support in Ireland: An Update
Get PDFA recent paper by Madden used concentration indices to examine the bases of party support in Ireland in the 2011 election. This note updates this work to incorporate the 2016 election using the latest wave of ESS data. The results show that in terms of the bases of party supports many of the features of the ‘earthquake election’ of 2011 remain, in particular the widely differing support bases for Fine Gael and Sinn Féin. Concentration indices with respect to income show little change from the 2011 election. However, there is some evidence that the support base for Fianna Fáil in 2016 was older and less well-educated than in 2011, with the change in support base for Fine Gael over the same period a mirror image
A Case Report of a Primary Small Cell Carcinoma of the Subglottis
Get PDFSmall cell carcinoma (SmCC) is a type of cancer affecting the subglottic region of the larynx.Subglottic carcinomas represent only less than 5% of laryngeal cancers, with SmCC accounting for only 0.5%. This case report highlights a patient with a rapidly-progressing laryngeal growth that caused a significant airway obstruction within a period of three weeks. Further investigation revealed that the patient was suffering from a rare form of laryngeal neoplasm, which was consistent with a diagnosis of a limited stage primary SmCC of the subglottis. He was then started on a regimen of radiotherapy with concomitant chemotherapy (cisplatin and etoposide) for a duration of two months. Response to therapy was rapid, with a reduction in tumour size. A combination of radiotherapy and platinum-based chemotherapy is currently the modality of choice for treatment, with recent data showing that surgery has a limited role in laryngeal SmCC