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Socio-Economic Variation in the Impact of the Irish Recession on the Experience of Economic Stress among Families

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Title Socio-Economic Variation in the Impact of the Irish Recession on the Experience of Economic Stress among Families
 
Creator Watson, Dorothy
Whelan, Christopher T.
Maitre, Bertrand
Williams, James
 
Subject recession; families; Ireland
 
Description In this paper we draw on the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) data to examine the impact of pre-recession socio-economic characteristics on the economic stress levels of households with children. Our results provide some support for the polarisation argument, with the largest increases in absolute percentage point terms occurring towards the bottom of the socio-economic hierarchy. However, this was accompanied by sharp attenuation of socio economic inequalities in stress and a dramatic increase in the heterogeneity of economically stressed households. The analysis shows that the reality is more complex than either the “class polarisation” or “middle class squeeze” hypotheses would suggest. The results create a new set of challenges for policy that require a careful balancing of issues of legitimacy, the need to meet very broad-based needs for services and the more traditional targeted assistance to vulnerable groups.
 
Publisher The Economic and Social Review
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2016-12-14
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.esr.ie/article/view/629
 
Source The Economic and Social Review; Vol 47, No 4, Winter (2016): GROWING UP IN IRELAND - Papers Presented at The Annual GUI Conference, Dublin Castle, 3 December 2015; 477-498
0012-9984
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.esr.ie/article/view/629/149
 
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