…globalisation—the entrepreneurial society, where change is the cutting edge and routine work is inevitably outsourced. Under the managed economy of the cold war era, government policies around the world supported…
…of opportunity is a principle that commands almost universal popular support and which many governments seek to promote. Social mobility – the degree to which people and families move between…
…of this strand of economic literature. The talk will review all these recent contributions, and likely directions for future research. Download Subsequent Publication This lecture is one of the special…
…between countries in work quality. It argues that future progress in the field depends on the growth of cross-national comparative research. Professor Duncan Gallie CBE FBA is an Official Fellow…
…Previous lectures have been given by some of the world’s foremost scholars in the fields of economics, statistics and sociology, including a number of Nobel Prize winners. Download Subsequent Publication…
…Ryan, Asylum Policy, DG Home Affairs, European Commission • Challenges in Protection and the Common European Asylum System: The Role of the European Asylum Support Office: David Costello, Refugee Applications…
…European policy level response to the current crisis represents a particularly perverse and contractionary combination of the features of Europe’s capitalisms. Download the paper presented by Professor Seán Ó Riain…
…download HERE. Seminar Topic: Despite increasing financial pressures on higher education systems throughout the world, many governments remain resolutely opposed to the introduction of tuition fees, and some countries and…
…in the year and in 2014. Course Summary (the full programme for the course can be downloaded below) Missing data, both as a result of attrition and item non-response, can…
…Despite Trump, despite the repeated optimism of the oil companies and despite further drilling in the Arctic, oil and the other fossil fuels are entering a long, slow decline. The…