Is Employment Polarisation Inevitable? Occupational Change in Ireland and Switzerland, 1970–2010

Change is inevitable--change is constant.

Employment Polarisation in Australia

Whilst employment levels in Australia are healthy when compared to those twenty years ago, the available work has become increasingly polarised into either all-work or no-work households. This paper measures the extent of polarisation that has taken place in Australia since 1982 with a measure that accounts for changes in individual based employment and family structure. We find that employment...

Population, employment and economic growth in Ireland.

The population of the Republic of Ireland increased at an annual average rate of 1.5% between 1971-79. There is no evidence of a slowing down in the population growth rate since 1979; the electoral register totals have shown larger increases in the 2 years since 1979 than over the 1971-79 period. Rapid population growth is a unique experience in Ireland. The highly variable rate of populatio...

Avoiding disastrous climate change is possible but not inevitable.

W hat the world does or does not do about climate change will have profound implications. If the world fails to act, we may cross a climate tipping point, with disastrous consequences all around. No country by itself can prevent this, but a substantial number of countries working together can avert disaster. Collectively, we know what we need to do. However, can we agree on what each of us shou...

Gender differences in occupational employment

The differences in employment distributions of women and men within occupations have been, and continue to be, a prominent feature of the labor market. Past research has indicated a high degree of difference that remained fairly constant from the early 1900s up until about 1970. The 1970s were a watershed period in occupational desegregation, as indicated by significant declines in measures of ...