Browsing Sociology by Author "Halpin, Brendan"

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Active labour market programmes and poverty dynamics in Ireland

Halpin, Brendan; Hill, John (Combat Poverty Agency, 2008)

Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs), which provide training and subsidised employment to the unemployed, are an important part of Ireland’s welfare state. While a good deal of existing research is concerned with the ...
Class, status and the stratification of residential preferences amongst accountants

O'Regan, Philip; Halpin, Brendan (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2011)

Drawing primarily on data from the 1911 Irish Census, and adopting a specifically Weberian focus, this paper investigates the separate explanatory power of class and status in the stratification of outcomes. Specifically ...
European food consumption: convergence or persistent difference?

Healy, Amy Erbe (University of Limerick, 2012)

This study has analysed food expenditure patterns to determine if consumption is converging both within and across nation states in the European Union. Convergence theory posits that with similar levels of economic ...
Some notes on categorical data analysis, using simulation in Stata and R

Halpin, Brendan (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2011)

Simple modelling of categorical data is not as simple as it seems. Standard formulas taught to generations of undergraduates are shown to be sub-optimal, simple models are widely misunderstood, and high levels of controversy ...

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