While population health and welfare can be improved through the provision of non-cash
benefits, such as free healthcare, many welfare improving schemes have low rates of take …

People with intellectual disability (ID) and/or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are over‐
represented in the homelessness population. A lack of available and suitable social housing …

This paper assesses the effectiveness of social benefit programs on children who had prior
experience with poverty across 27 European countries in the years following the Great …

New ESRI research finds that relationship breakdown and mothers' or fathers' job loss are
key triggers for transitions into child poverty. Living in poverty, especially over a protracted …

For many commentators the litmus test of integration is how well the children of migrants are
faring. This report investigates whether children born in Ireland to migrant parents differ from …

At the beginning of the 2000s, Switzerland went through two global recessions: the Dot-com
crisis and the Great Recession. Even though Switzerland experienced milder effects …

People with disabilities have been among the most marginalized groups within society, with
consequent limitations imposed on their access to many goods within society, including …

This paper studies the unobserved factors accounting for the stickiness of unemployment
and for its micro-level longitudinal accumulation. The paper disentangles 'genuine state …

This open access publication deals with the operationalisation of the welfare state as an
independent variable. To study how welfare states affect social inequality, individual …

This paper examines how changes to the social welfare system for lone parents, such as the
tightening of eligibility criteria for One-Parent Family Payment and the introduction of …