This meeting will discuss how the pandemic has affected existing inequalities in accessing and using digital technology and perhaps provoked new forms of ‘digital divides.’ This section of the round table will focus in ...

This paper critically examines the constructed narrative that there is an epistemic intergenerational divide on the topic of climate change, climate science, and the political actions necessary to address the most urgent ...

Conflicting claims about the distributional impact of Ireland's fiscal adjustment have been made. This paper clarifies the different implicit standards on which these may be based, and uses the limited available data on ...

Dissatisfaction with the existing tax structure, in so far as it has any rational basis, probably derives in large measure from the feeling that the incidence of taxation is inequitable or, to put it another way, that the ...

This paper briefly summarises the evidence that Ireland has a relatively high level of income inequality, which has been rather stable over time and reflects institutional legacies and choices made in the past. A comparative ...

The economic crisis impacts directly on the distribution of income via unemployment and private sector wages, but the way policy responds in seeking to control soaring fiscal deficits is also central to its distributional ...

Inequality, although a contested concept, is generally understood to mean the unequal distribution of social, biological and other factors, which results in unequal opportunities and/or outcomes for those negatively affected. ...

In Callan, Hannan, Nolan and Whelan (1989), the ESRI team attempt to defend the use of "relative income thresholds" as measures of poverty. The argument here will be that there is a lack of correspondence between the ...