🤔What is meaningful work? 🤔

For #internationalworkersday2024 , take a moment to read this article by Postdoctoral Fellow Caleb Althorpe @calebalthorpe.bsky.social (@TCDphilosophy) for The Conversation on meaningful work from a philosopher's standpoint.💡

🔎Read now: tinyurl.com/28jbcbdm

We're looking forward to Tuesday's online seminar
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✨ This month we chat to IRC Research Fellow Caleb Althorpe @calebalthorpe.bsky.social who tells us about his research on economic justice, exploring the value of work, the dynamics of economic power & the transformative influence of technology.

Read the full interview here ⬇️
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New working paper by Karina Doorley, Theano Kakoulidou, Luke Duggan and myself looking at a key aspect of how we measure income inequality & poverty: equivalisation.

We find child poverty rates are particularly sensitive to the choice of equivalence scale, as shown below.

Donatella Camedda is seeking people with intellectual disabilities, their parents and employers/educational providers in Ireland to share their experiences of transitioning to higher education or employment in Ireland.

Please see here for further details: tcd.ie/tcpid/PEER-4-I…

Seeking deeper purpose in your work? Our colleague, Research Fellow Caleb Althorpe @calebalthorpe.bsky.social explores what makes work meaningful in an article for The Conversation
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To help inform policy, we combine survey and administrative data to study the financial assets held by Irish households, and the characteristics of the households who hold them.

Check it out!

This is part of a larger project, stay tuned!
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Great session and very happy to be able to present new work-in-progress on the impact of Labourers Act cottages on health outcomes 1880s-1910s. Hoping to have a working paper on this in the next few months.

Great to see the first, of hopefully many, research outputs as part of the new Central Bank of Ireland's Research Engagement Programme. We are thankful for the access to the relevant data and support to conduct this research 👍. Simone Arrigoni 🇪🇺🇺🇦 Tara McIndoe-Calder Davide Romelli

Can training that encourages conscientiousness increase job retention and earnings for low-skill workers? Dive into research by Sveta Milusheva, Carol Newman, Vincent Thorne, and Martina Kirchberger in #WestAfrica blogs.worldbank.org/en/development… #infrastructure #jobs

📒 Recent Publication News 📒

'Intra-household Time Allocation: Evidence from the Post-socialist Countries' by Vitaliia Yaremko 🇺🇦 is published by Comparative Economic Studies.
It examines the division of household work in post-socialist countries.
Read more:
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🎙️New Podcast Episode!🎙️ It's our Season 1 finale! For Episode 7, Andrew and Lloyd chat with Alan Fernihough (QUBBusiness) and ask him the toughest question of the entire season; Why can't you get a train to Donegal?

They also talk about Irish rail development, health and…

A short piece on meaningful work and why I think workplace democracy could help bring it about.

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The Conversation

Join me, Prof Jennifer Symonds and others on the LEARN team to work on educational inequalities!

#PostdocPosition at TCD Sociology

Deadline: 20th May.
Duration: 30 months.

APPLY here: tcd.ie/sociology/vaca…

LEARN - Horizon project: cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101…

A huge congratulations to our 5 PPES Scholars who were named on Trinity Monday! Scholars are entitled to a range of benefits, including free accommodation on campus.

From left to right: Lara Smith, Eoin Connolly, Georgina Dowling, Kate Fennell, Shane Burke

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉

We're thrilled to welcome Prof Alan M. Taylor (Columbia University and Columbia UniversitySIPA ) to TCD Economics and the International Macroeconomics (IM-TCD) group in May 2024.

Looking forward to insightful discussions and collaborative research during this visit! #EconTwitter

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We look forward to Friday's economic history PhD colloquium at QUBBusiness QUB Economic History with Iris Wohnsiedler of TCD Economics as keynote speaker:
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Míde Griffin Alessandro Brioschi TCD Social Sciences & Philosophy HEA
#PhD #EconTwitter #EconomicHistory #Economics #NSPRproject

Congratulations to Professor Kat Chzhen of the Department of Sociology and Professor Jesse Dillon Savage of the Department of Political Science! They were named as Fellows this morning by Provost Linda Doyle at the annual Trinity Monday celebration.
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Thrilled and honoured to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin