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SOME IMPORTANT CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE OF IRISH SOCIETY. A REVIEW OF PAST DEVELOPMENTS AND A PERSPECTIVE ON THE FUTURE. ESRI Working Paper No. 137, February 2001
This Paper describes some important economic and demographic changes in Irish society
over recent decades. Some forecasts are also included. In the case of the economic variables
covered (which relate principally to the labour market) these are mainly medium-term (up to
2005), but extend over a much longer period (up to 2021 and beyond) for the demographic or
population aspect. Some policy implications are also discussed. Apart from providing a brief
descriptive and analytical background, it is hoped that the Paper will also help in identifying
areas for future research
RECENT TRENDS IN YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT. ESRI General Research Paper. 1983
This paper attempts to highlight some salient aspects of
youth unemployment which have emerged over recent years.
The detailed analyses presented mainly relate to the period
since 1979, which as we are all too well aware, encompasses
a time of severe economic recession, which is still very much
with us. Particularly difficult problems arose in the youth
labour market during this time and it is hoped that this paper
will help to promote a better understanding of the situation
as it has evolved and provide some guidance for the future,
both in trying to assess the likely shape of future developments
and in suggesting directions which policy might follow.
For the purposes of this paper we will take the "youth
sector" as referring to all persons aged less than 25 years,
which is now a more or less universally accepted definition.
Basically this study consists of a number of parts. The rest
of this chapter reviews the changes in the labour force over
the last two decades with particular reference to the youth
population; in Chapter II we analyse particular aspects of the
recent trend in youth unemployment while Chapter III contains
an examination of the experience of young persons who
left the Irish educational system during the last few years.
Chapter IV discusses implications arising from our findings
and considers some policy aspects which will be of relevance
in the years ahead. Chapter V summarises the analyses and
the findings
Sectoral Changes in the Labour Force over the Period 1961-1980 with Particular Reference to Public Sector and Services Employment. Quarterly Economic Commentary Special Article, August 1982
A knowledge of the significant changes which have been taking place in the
sectoral composition of employment is fundamental to a proper understanding
of the recent evolution of the labour force. This paper traces the changes in the
numbers at work in broad sectors of the Irish economy over the period
1961-80. The basic information is given in Appendix I, Table A which
contains an annual sectoral subdivision under four broad headings (Agriculture,
Manufacturing, Building and Services); Tables 1 and 1A following show
these data for selected years* in this period with a somewhat more detailed
sectoral subdivision, the second table giving absolute and relative employment
changes by sector for the 1961/1971 and 1971/1979 periods
Recent Changes in Irish Fertility. Quarterly Economic Commentary Special Article, May 1984
The main purpose of this paper is to provide a broad description of fertility
trends in Ireland over the last two decades. The analysis investigates in
particular whether there are regional (i.e., county) differences in relation to
the levels of fertility and how these have changed. In the final part of the paper
we discuss the likely future pattern of fertility trends and consider some
economic and social implications arising therefrom. The last-mentioned aspect
is now a matter of considerable significance since there are indications (from
the annual births total) that the general decline in fertility has escalated to
such an extent in recent years that the effects may be quite substantial and
materialise within a relatively short period of time
A Study of Labour Force Flows 1961-80. Quarterly Economic Commentary Special Article, May 1982
A Study of Labour Force Flows
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A multilevel neo-institutional analysis of infection prevention and control in English hospitals: coerced safety culture change?
Despite committed policy, regulative and professional efforts on healthcare safety, little is known about how such macro-interventions permeate organisations and shape culture over time. Informed by neo-institutional theory, we examined how inter-organisational influences shaped safety practices and inter-subjective meanings following efforts for coerced culture change. We traced macro-influences from 2000 to 2015 in infection prevention and control (IPC). Safety perceptions and meanings were inductively analysed from 130 in-depth qualitative interviews with senior- and middle-level managers from 30 English hospitals. A total of 869 institutional interventions were identified; 69% had a regulative component. In this context of forced implementation of safety practices, staff experienced inherent tensions concerning the scope of safety, their ability to be open and prioritisation of external mandates over local need. These tensions stemmed from conflicts among three co-existing institutional logics prevalent in the NHS. In response to requests for change, staff flexibly drew from a repertoire of cognitive, material and symbolic resources within and outside their organisations. They crafted 'strategies of action', guided by a situated assessment of first-hand practice experiences complementing collective evaluations of interventions such as 'pragmatic', 'sensible' and also 'legitimate'. Macro-institutional forces exerted influence either directly on individuals or indirectly by enriching the organisational cultural repertoire
Search for the glueball candidates f0(1500) and fJ(1710) in gamma gamma collisions
Data taken with the ALEPH detector at LEP1 have been used to search for gamma
gamma production of the glueball candidates f0(1500) and fJ(1710) via their
decay to pi+pi-. No signal is observed and upper limits to the product of gamma
gamma width and pi+pi- branching ratio of the f0(1500) and the fJ(1710) have
been measured to be Gamma_(gamma gamma -> f0(1500)). BR(f0(1500)->pi+pi-) <
0.31 keV and Gamma_(gamma gamma -> fJ(1710)). BR(fJ(1710)->pi+pi-) < 0.55 keV
at 95% confidence level.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics
For a decade, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) program collected clinicopathologic annotation data along with multi-platform molecular profiles of more than 11,000 human tumors across 33 different cancer types. TCGA clinical data contain key features representing the democratized nature of the data collection process. To ensure proper use of this large clinical dataset associated with genomic features, we developed a standardized dataset named the TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource (TCGA-CDR), which includes four major clinical outcome endpoints. In addition to detailing major challenges and statistical limitations encountered during the effort of integrating the acquired clinical data, we present a summary that includes endpoint usage recommendations for each cancer type. These TCGA-CDR findings appear to be consistent with cancer genomics studies independent of the TCGA effort and provide opportunities for investigating cancer biology using clinical correlates at an unprecedented scale. Analysis of clinicopathologic annotations for over 11,000 cancer patients in the TCGA program leads to the generation of TCGA Clinical Data Resource, which provides recommendations of clinical outcome endpoint usage for 33 cancer types
Search for a W' boson decaying to a bottom quark and a top quark in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
Results are presented from a search for a W' boson using a dataset
corresponding to 5.0 inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity collected
during 2011 by the CMS experiment at the LHC in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV.
The W' boson is modeled as a heavy W boson, but different scenarios for the
couplings to fermions are considered, involving both left-handed and
right-handed chiral projections of the fermions, as well as an arbitrary
mixture of the two. The search is performed in the decay channel W' to t b,
leading to a final state signature with a single lepton (e, mu), missing
transverse energy, and jets, at least one of which is tagged as a b-jet. A W'
boson that couples to fermions with the same coupling constant as the W, but to
the right-handed rather than left-handed chiral projections, is excluded for
masses below 1.85 TeV at the 95% confidence level. For the first time using LHC
data, constraints on the W' gauge coupling for a set of left- and right-handed
coupling combinations have been placed. These results represent a significant
improvement over previously published limits.Comment: Submitted to Physics Letters B. Replaced with version publishe
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