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To Weight or Not To Weight? A Statistical Analysis of How Weights Affect the Reliability of the Quarterly National Household Survey for Immigration Research in Ireland
Get PDFIreland has an immigrant population that is proportionally among the largest in the EU. Considering the impact this has had on Irish society, a surprisingly small amount of quantitative research has been performed to date. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the weighting schemes associated with the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS), the primary data source for immigration research in Ireland. This is the first time that the QNHS weighting mechanism has been formally evaluated in the literature. Our analysis shows that there are significant issues relating to the weighting mechanism. This has major consequences for quantitative research on immigration in Ireland
Mary Carty
Get PDFMary Carty, entrepreneur and author, observed how our thinking about cultural products and practices can become siloed. The solution is to invest in and develop our capacity for collaborative practice, cutting cuts across artificial divisions between the arts and the cultural industries.
Thank you all for having me here today, it’s an honour to be here. There are two points I want to talk about that struck me from listening to all the conversations today. The first one is, where do we put cultural products and what are they? The second one is about collaboration. We’ve talked so much about collaboration today and I have a few ideas around that that I’d like to share
Foreword (Special Issue on Sustainable Development Solutions)
No full textI am delighted to contribute a foreword for a selection of Papers from the 2013 International Conference on Sustainable Development Practice (ICSDP), which was held at Columbia University, New York, in September 2013. This special issue of The Economic and Social Review comes at an important and exciting juncture in our collective work as we strive to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and to craft the post-2015 development agenda
Determinants of Pension Coverage and Retirement Income Replacement Rates – Evidence from TILDA
Get PDFIn Ireland, the absence of statutory earnings-related pensions in the private sector leads to large variations in pension coverage and adequacy. This paper uses recent data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) to evaluate how the pension system has performed for the current retiree cohort. The levels and compositions of retirees’ incomes, supplementary pension coverage and retirement income replacement rates are examined and compared against Irish government targets. The determinants of supplementary pension coverage and retirement income replacement rates are also examined in a multivariate framework. Flat-rated State welfare pensions imply a high degree of progressivity in the Irish pension system: retirement income replacement rates are inversely related to pre-retirement earnings, particularly for former private sector employees. Sup plementary pensions add an earnings related component which insulates post-retirement incomes of middle-and high-earners to some degree
Ireland’s Fiscal Framework: Options for the Future
Get PDFThe Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2012 established fiscal policy rules and an independent fiscal watchdog, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (IFAC) – patterned after the new EU template for fiscal rules and the Swedish fiscal council, respectively. These elements, along with budgetary procedural rules, comprise the core of Ireland’s fiscal framework. Although the present framework meets most criteria of international good practice, there is considerable scope for improvement to meet Ireland’s future needs, especially for restoring public debt sustainability – as it is no longer under the direct tutelage and protection of the EU and IMF. To this end, the paper outlines a set of options to strengthen the fiscal framework consisting, among others, of (a) a binding public debt rule; (b) an indicative structural budget balance rule; (c) a pay-go rule, and (d) steps to broaden the mandate and amplify the resources of IFAC. It is argued that these options should help pavethe way to further gains in credibility in financial markets, and ultimately, to higher economicgrowth and stability
Socio-economic Inequalities in Child Health in Ireland
Get PDFIn the literature on the links between socio-economic status (SES) and child health, there is evidence that the SES gradient is weaker for objective indicators of child health (e.g., height) than for subjective indicators (e.g., parental-assessed health). In this paper, we use crosssectional micro-data from the Growing Up in Ireland study to examine the SES gradient in height, weight, general health status and chronic illness incidence. Using household income and mother’s education as indicators of SES, we find only limited support for the contention that the SES gradient in child health in Ireland is stronger for more subjective indicators of child health
The Nexus Between Macroeconomics and Demographics: Implications for Sustainable Development
Get PDFThis paper explores the interlinkage effects of macroeconomic variables on the demographic dynamics of Nigeria. This topic is important because available evidence still suggests that Nigeria has a very young population and that the country is not likely to experience demographic transition in the near future. Using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) estimation technique, a regression model is developed. The model is used to explore the links between demographic variables and macroeconomic variables such as real gross domestic product, age dependency ratio and agricultural land. The findings indicate that the link between macroeconomic variables and demographic variables is somewhat ambiguous which requires explanations at the micro level. To gain more insights for practical solutions on the post-2015 sustainable development agenda, a comparative analysis of the macroeconomic and demographic indicators as well as policies on population growth for selected countries is conducted
Sustaining Cultural Development: Unified Systems and New Governance in Cultural Life (Biljana Mickov and James Doyle, eds.: Ashgate, 2013)
Get PDFIn Sustaining Cultural Development, Biljana Mickov and James Doyle argue that substantial investment in both research and strategic planning is required if programmes to promote greater participation in cultural life are to be effective. Mickov is a cultural manager, researcher and consultant working in Serbia, and Doyle is a cultural manager and practising artist based in Dublin. Both editors thus bring different European perspectives and practitioner backgrounds to bear in assembling a collection of case studies from contributors throughout Europe to evidence their claim that ‘arts and cultural management is increasingly becoming associated with facilitating the mobility and development of society and of urbanisation at a global level’ (p.233)
Feelings Matter: How Curatorial Practice can be Informed by Insights on the Dynamics of Artists’ Emotional Experiences
Get PDFThis article uses evidence from six visual artists’ own accounts of their artistic processes, in order tentatively to propose that there may be a commonality of emotional experience when it comes to producing artistic work. Through qualitative analysis we generated six categories of feelings that artists appeared to experience as they worked through the artistic cycle. This paper names and categorises the articulated feelings that appeared common to the artists. For each individual artist, we were able to identify feelings of engagement, disengagement, fear, a sense of constriction, freedom and relief. The emotional experiences associated with producing artistic work have been underexplored in the literature to date and we argue that knowledge about common feelings associated with producing artwork could be extremely useful, both for artists themselves and for curators. By recognising and naming feelings associated with different stages of the artistic process, both artists and curators might be more self-aware and facilitators or artistic mentors, including curators, might be more equipped to normalise the ‘artistic struggle’, to anticipate moments of motivation and to encourage persistence in the face of perceived obstacles. The implications of these findings for contemporary curatorial practice are explored
Ireland’s Medium-Term Growth Prospects: a Phoenix Rising?
Get PDFThis paper considers Ireland’s growth prospects through 2030. Real GDP growth averaging 3 per cent per year is possible but will require a stronger labour productivity growth performance than is currently projected by OECD. Success depends on a favourable external environment and would be jeopardised by a return to the pre-crisis “bubble economy” but can be underpinned by exploiting the remaining scope for catch-up growth. “Appropriate growth theory” provides a useful lens through which to review Ireland’s growth policy and performance as a “close-to-frontier” economy and this underlines the importance of further strengthening and rationalising innovation policies