Bertrand Maître
Biographic Data
| ID | 256555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bertrand Maître |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bertrand |
| FAMILY NAME | Maître |
| SIGNATURE | MAÎTRE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Economic and Social Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2698-1524 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 324 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Doing old folks' lungs a solid?’ Who burns solid fuels among older Irish adults and its links to health
The Experience of Housing Discrimination and Housing Deprivation Across Social Groups in Ireland
This study focuses on housing inequalities across diverse social groups with respect to two housing indicators: subjective housing discrimination; and objective housing deprivation. By scrutinizing the correspondence in inequalities between the two indicators, we enhance the measurement of housing inequality and at the same time we shed light on the relationship between subjective and objective dimensions of housing— a relationship that has recei…
A capability approach to understanding academic and socio-emotional outcomes of students with special educational needs in Ireland
Using data from Ireland’s national longitudinal study of children, this paper employs a capabilities approach to disability to understand how individual characteristics as well as home and school environmental factors at age 9 relate to academic and socio-emotional outcomes of students with special educational needs (SEN) at age 17. Results suggest that young people with SEN register both lower average scores and make less academic progress betwe…
Welfare Regime Variation in the Impact of the Great Recession on Deprivation Levels
This paper investigates changes over the period 2005 to 2014 in material deprivation dynamics of social risk groups in 11 European countries covering a range of welfare regimes. The period covered experienced dramatic economic change, encompassing periods of boom, the Great Recession and early recovery. Social risk groups are defined as groups which differ in the challenges that they face in converting resources into desired outcomes. The compara…
Monitoring report on integration 2020
Research published by the ESRI and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth will be launched via a webinar on Tuesday, 15 December 2020. The Monitoring report on Integration 2020 is the latest in a series of reports on how non-Irish nationals fare compared to Irish nationals, in terms of key life domains: employment, education, social inclusion and active citizenship
The Great Recession and the changing intergenerational distribution of economic stress across income classes in Ireland
In this paper we seek to bridge the gap between recent analysis relating to the distributional consequences of the Great Recession across the income distribution and more specific concerns relating to inter-generational outcomes. In Ireland in 2008 there was a clear age gradient in relation to economic stress. Over time the gradient became sharper with the relative position of younger groups deteriorating. The increased salience of age group diff…
Social Class and Conversion Capacity
Polarization or “Squeezed Middle” in the Great Recession
Economic Stress and the Great Recession in Ireland
The Great Recession and the changing distribution of economic vulnerability by social class
Ireland represents a particularly interesting case study of the distributional impact of pronounced macroeconomic fluctuations. In this article, we use the Irish case to show that in contrast to periods of relative equilibrium, an understanding of the distributional consequences of economic turbulence requires going beyond conventional measures of income poverty or inequality. Here, we focus on a conception of ‘economic vulnerability’ that identi…
Multidimensional poverty measurement in Europe
As awareness of the limitations of relying solely on income to measure poverty has become more widespread, attention has been increasingly focused on multi-dimensional approaches, to the point where the European Union (EU) has adopted a multidimensional poverty and social exclusion target for 2020. The rationale advanced is that the computation of a multidimensional poverty index is an effective way of communicating in a political environment, an…
L'indicateur EU2020 de suivi de la pauvreté et de l'exclusion
La réduction de la pauvreté et de l’exclusion sociale est un des objectifs de la stratégie 2020 de l’Union européenne. Le bien fondé et le succès d’une telle politique nécessitent le choix d’indicateurs pertinents permettant non seulement de saisir les écarts de pauvreté entre pays mais également d’identifier, pour chaque pays, les groupes d’individus auxquels les politiques sociales doivent prêter une attention particulière. Le ciblage retenu da…
Work and Poverty in Ireland
There is broad recognition of the crucial role of employment in preventing poverty and in enabling poor households to move out of poverty (ILO, 2005; Caputo, 1991; OECD 1998, 2004). In this report we examine in detail the relationship between work and poverty in Ireland from 2004 to 2010 –a period of rapid economic change, spanning both strong growth and recession. Ireland is an interesting case because of the depth of the recession and because, …
Analysing Intergenerational Influences on Income Poverty and Economic Vulnerability With Eu-Silc
The European Union Statistics of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) 2005 wave includes a special module on inter-generational transmission of poverty. In addition to the standard data relating to income and material deprivation, information relating to parental background and childhood circumstances was collected for all household members aged over 24 and less than 66 at the end of the income reference period. In principle, the module provide…
Understanding material deprivation
Welfare regime and social class variation in poverty and economic vulnerability in Europe
In this paper we address a set of interrelated issues. These comprise increasing concerns about reliance on nationally based income poverty measures in the context of EU enlargement, the relative merits of one-dimensional versus multidimensional approaches to poverty and social exclusion and the continuing relevance of class-based explanations of life chances. When identifying economically vulnerable groups we find that, contrary to the situation…
Understanding the socio-economic distribution of multiple deprivation
Mapping patterns of multiple deprivation using self-organising maps
The ‘Europeanisation’ of Reference Groups
In this paper we address the question of the relative importance of within and between country differences in income and material deprivation in the European Union in the context of recent suggestions that insufficient attention has been paid to the latter. In particular, we respond to the argument that the ‘state bounded’ relative income approach obscures the significance of EU-wide reference groups. Making use of EU-SILC 2004, we have sought to…
Europeanization of inequality and European reference groups
In this article we take advantage of the availability of European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) data to address both weak and strong versions of the Europeanization of reference groups thesis. The former proposes that common standards of evaluation emerge as a consequence of knowledge of conditions in other societies. The latter argues that people increasingly perceive themselves as part of a larger European stratific…
Poverty in Ireland in Comparative European Perspective
The Life Cycle Perspective on Social Inclusion in Ireland
The principal objective of this study is to develop an understanding of the role that life cycle factors play in shaping patterns of poverty and social exclusion in contemporary Irish society.
Social class variation in risk
A joint concern with multidimensionality and dynamics is a defining feature of the pervasive use of the terminology of social exclusion in the European Union. The notion of social exclusion focuses attention on economic vulnerability in the sense of exposure to risk and uncertainty. Sociological concern with these issues has been associated with the thesis that risk and uncertainty have become more pervasive and extend substantially beyond the wo…
Measuring Material Deprivation With Eu-Silc
In this paper we consider the consequences for measurement of material deprivation, consistent poverty and economic vulnerability of the shift from the ECHP data set to the EU-SILC instrument. Despite the restricted number of deprivation items available in EU-SILC, we show that there is a substantial overlap between such measures when they are estimated using EU-wide and a set of Irish specific indicators. By placing the EU-wide measures in the c…
Reconfiguring the Measurement of Deprivation and Consistent Poverty in Ireland
Understanding material deprivation
Economic Vulnerability, Multidimensional Deprivation and Social Cohesion in an Enlarged European Community
In this article we have sought to combine regional and social exclusion perspectives on economic exclusion in the enlarged European Community. Our analysis, based on the European Quality of Life Survey, confirms that while the economically vulnerable, identified through latent class analysis, constitute substantially larger groups in the poorer economic clusters, they are much more sharply differentiated from others in the richer clusters. While …
Multiple deprivation and persistent poverty in the European Union
The literature on social exclusion has focused attention on the processes leading to exposure to multiple disadvantage. Despite the influence this perspective has had on both academic and policy discussions, conceptual analysis has remained imprecise and empirical evidence modest. We have made use of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) in order to examine the extent to which persistent income poverty results in multiple deprivation. Our…
Multidimensional poverty measurement in Europe
As awareness of the limitations of relying solely on income to measure poverty has become more widespread, attention has been increasingly focused on multi-dimensional approaches, to the point where the European Union (EU) has adopted a multidimensional poverty and social exclusion target for 2020. The rationale advanced is that the computation of a multidimensional poverty index is an effective way of communicating in a political environment, an…
Welfare regime and social class variation in poverty and economic vulnerability in Europe
In this paper we address a set of interrelated issues. These comprise increasing concerns about reliance on nationally based income poverty measures in the context of EU enlargement, the relative merits of one-dimensional versus multidimensional approaches to poverty and social exclusion and the continuing relevance of class-based explanations of life chances. When identifying economically vulnerable groups we find that, contrary to the situation…
Explaining Levels of Deprivation in the European Union
In this paper we seek to explain variations in levels of deprivation between EU countries. The starting-point of our analysis is the finding that the relationship between income and life-style deprivation varies across countries. Given our understanding of the manner in which the income-deprivation mismatch may arise from the limitations of current income as a measure of command over resources, the pattern of variation seems to be consistent with…
Vulnerability and multiple deprivation perspectives on economic exclusion in Europe
In this paper we address issues relating to vulnerability to economic exclusion and levels of economic exclusion in Europe. We do so by applying latent class models to data from the European Community Household Panel for thirteen countries. This approach allows us to distinguish between vulnerability to economic exclusion and exposure to multiple deprivation at a particular point in time. The results of our analysis confirm that in every country …
Economic Stress and the Great Recession in Ireland
Housing Expenditures and Income Poverty in EU Countries
Previous research has suggested that hidden income arising from home ownership has important consequences for poverty measurement as it tends to favour certain low income groups, especially the elderly, and to have a moderating effect on poverty rates in countries with high levels of home ownership. This article explores both methodological and substantive aspects of this issue using data for 14 EU countries drawn from the European Community Hous…
Polarization or “Squeezed Middle” in the Great Recession
Income, deprivation and economic stress in the enlarged European Union
Welfare regimes and household income packaging in the European Union
This paper uses harmonized data for the member states of the European Union to analyse household income packaging from a ‘welfare regimes’ perspective. Using data from the third wave of the ECHP, it looks at how the role of welfare transfers in the income package varies across countries and welfare regimes, and assesses whether this is consistent with the predictions of welfare regime theory, having first elaborated some specific hypotheses in th…
Europeanization of inequality and European reference groups
In this article we take advantage of the availability of European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) data to address both weak and strong versions of the Europeanization of reference groups thesis. The former proposes that common standards of evaluation emerge as a consequence of knowledge of conditions in other societies. The latter argues that people increasingly perceive themselves as part of a larger European stratific…
Monitoring report on integration 2020
Research published by the ESRI and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth will be launched via a webinar on Tuesday, 15 December 2020. The Monitoring report on Integration 2020 is the latest in a series of reports on how non-Irish nationals fare compared to Irish nationals, in terms of key life domains: employment, education, social inclusion and active citizenship
Social class variation in risk
A joint concern with multidimensionality and dynamics is a defining feature of the pervasive use of the terminology of social exclusion in the European Union. The notion of social exclusion focuses attention on economic vulnerability in the sense of exposure to risk and uncertainty. Sociological concern with these issues has been associated with the thesis that risk and uncertainty have become more pervasive and extend substantially beyond the wo…
The Great Recession and the changing distribution of economic vulnerability by social class
Ireland represents a particularly interesting case study of the distributional impact of pronounced macroeconomic fluctuations. In this article, we use the Irish case to show that in contrast to periods of relative equilibrium, an understanding of the distributional consequences of economic turbulence requires going beyond conventional measures of income poverty or inequality. Here, we focus on a conception of ‘economic vulnerability’ that identi…
Understanding the socio-economic distribution of multiple deprivation
Comparing poverty and deprivation dynamics
Measuring Material Deprivation With Eu-Silc
In this paper we consider the consequences for measurement of material deprivation, consistent poverty and economic vulnerability of the shift from the ECHP data set to the EU-SILC instrument. Despite the restricted number of deprivation items available in EU-SILC, we show that there is a substantial overlap between such measures when they are estimated using EU-wide and a set of Irish specific indicators. By placing the EU-wide measures in the c…
Persistent Income Poverty and Deprivation in the European Union
Poverty research has increasingly focused on persistent income poverty, both as a crucial social indicator and as a target for policy intervention. Such an approach can lead to an identification of a sub-set of poor individuals facing particularly adverse circumstances and/or distinctive problems in escaping from poverty. Here we seek to establish whether, in comparison with cross-sectional measures, persistent poverty measures also provide a bet…
Levels and Patterns of Material Deprivation in Ireland
In this article we use the first full wave of the Irish component of the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey to evaluate conflicting interpretations of levels and patterns of material deprivation in Ireland after the ‘Celtic Tiger’. Radical critics of Irish economic policies have seen the Irish case as a particularly good illustration of the tendency for globalization to be accompanied by widespread economic vulnerability and mar…
The ‘Europeanisation’ of Reference Groups
In this paper we address the question of the relative importance of within and between country differences in income and material deprivation in the European Union in the context of recent suggestions that insufficient attention has been paid to the latter. In particular, we respond to the argument that the ‘state bounded’ relative income approach obscures the significance of EU-wide reference groups. Making use of EU-SILC 2004, we have sought to…
Poverty in Ireland in Comparative European Perspective
Migration Trends in an Enlarging European Union
Migration covers a wide range of important challenges as high unemployment in major receiving countries of the EU15, the concern with regard to social and cultural integration of migrants and the reduced social cohesion of receiving countries due to the lack of civic and political participation even of second and third generation migrants. However, migration may open up important opportunities, as to reduce the predicted long‐term gap in labor su…
Poverty Dynamics
Recent poverty research based on analyses of panel data have highlighted the importance of income dynamics. In this paper we study mobility into and out of relative income poverty from one year to the next using data for twelve countries from the European Community Household Panel Survey (ECHP). The ECHP has unique potential as a harmonized data set to serve as the basis for comparisons of income and poverty dynamics across EU countries, and here…
Poverty Dynamics
Recent poverty research based on analyses of panel data have highlighted the importance of income dynamics. In this paper we study mobility into and out of relative income poverty from one year to the next using data for twelve countries from the European Community Household Panel Survey (ECHP). The ECHP has unique potential as a harmonized data set to serve as the basis for comparisons of income and poverty dynamics across EU countries, and here…
Explaining Levels of Deprivation in the European Union
In this paper we seek to explain variations in levels of deprivation between EU countries. The starting-point of our analysis is the finding that the relationship between income and life-style deprivation varies across countries. Given our understanding of the manner in which the income-deprivation mismatch may arise from the limitations of current income as a measure of command over resources, the pattern of variation seems to be consistent with…
Multiple deprivation and persistent poverty in the European Union
The literature on social exclusion has focused attention on the processes leading to exposure to multiple disadvantage. Despite the influence this perspective has had on both academic and policy discussions, conceptual analysis has remained imprecise and empirical evidence modest. We have made use of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) in order to examine the extent to which persistent income poverty results in multiple deprivation. Our…
Persistent Income Poverty and Deprivation in the European Union
Poverty research has increasingly focused on persistent income poverty, both as a crucial social indicator and as a target for policy intervention. Such an approach can lead to an identification of a sub-set of poor individuals facing particularly adverse circumstances and/or distinctive problems in escaping from poverty. Here we seek to establish whether, in comparison with cross-sectional measures, persistent poverty measures also provide a bet…
Housing Expenditures and Income Poverty in EU Countries
Previous research has suggested that hidden income arising from home ownership has important consequences for poverty measurement as it tends to favour certain low income groups, especially the elderly, and to have a moderating effect on poverty rates in countries with high levels of home ownership. This article explores both methodological and substantive aspects of this issue using data for 14 EU countries drawn from the European Community Hous…
Vulnerability and multiple deprivation perspectives on economic exclusion in Europe
In this paper we address issues relating to vulnerability to economic exclusion and levels of economic exclusion in Europe. We do so by applying latent class models to data from the European Community Household Panel for thirteen countries. This approach allows us to distinguish between vulnerability to economic exclusion and exposure to multiple deprivation at a particular point in time. The results of our analysis confirm that in every country …
Welfare regimes and household income packaging in the European Union
This paper uses harmonized data for the member states of the European Union to analyse household income packaging from a ‘welfare regimes’ perspective. Using data from the third wave of the ECHP, it looks at how the role of welfare transfers in the income package varies across countries and welfare regimes, and assesses whether this is consistent with the predictions of welfare regime theory, having first elaborated some specific hypotheses in th…
Economic Vulnerability, Multidimensional Deprivation and Social Cohesion in an Enlarged European Community
In this article we have sought to combine regional and social exclusion perspectives on economic exclusion in the enlarged European Community. Our analysis, based on the European Quality of Life Survey, confirms that while the economically vulnerable, identified through latent class analysis, constitute substantially larger groups in the poorer economic clusters, they are much more sharply differentiated from others in the richer clusters. While …
Reconfiguring the Measurement of Deprivation and Consistent Poverty in Ireland
Comparing poverty and deprivation dynamics
Migration Trends in an Enlarging European Union
Migration covers a wide range of important challenges as high unemployment in major receiving countries of the EU15, the concern with regard to social and cultural integration of migrants and the reduced social cohesion of receiving countries due to the lack of civic and political participation even of second and third generation migrants. However, migration may open up important opportunities, as to reduce the predicted long‐term gap in labor su…
Income, deprivation and economic stress in the enlarged European Union
Levels and Patterns of Material Deprivation in Ireland
In this article we use the first full wave of the Irish component of the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey to evaluate conflicting interpretations of levels and patterns of material deprivation in Ireland after the ‘Celtic Tiger’. Radical critics of Irish economic policies have seen the Irish case as a particularly good illustration of the tendency for globalization to be accompanied by widespread economic vulnerability and mar…
Measuring Material Deprivation With Eu-Silc
In this paper we consider the consequences for measurement of material deprivation, consistent poverty and economic vulnerability of the shift from the ECHP data set to the EU-SILC instrument. Despite the restricted number of deprivation items available in EU-SILC, we show that there is a substantial overlap between such measures when they are estimated using EU-wide and a set of Irish specific indicators. By placing the EU-wide measures in the c…
The Life Cycle Perspective on Social Inclusion in Ireland
The principal objective of this study is to develop an understanding of the role that life cycle factors play in shaping patterns of poverty and social exclusion in contemporary Irish society.
Social class variation in risk
A joint concern with multidimensionality and dynamics is a defining feature of the pervasive use of the terminology of social exclusion in the European Union. The notion of social exclusion focuses attention on economic vulnerability in the sense of exposure to risk and uncertainty. Sociological concern with these issues has been associated with the thesis that risk and uncertainty have become more pervasive and extend substantially beyond the wo…
The ‘Europeanisation’ of Reference Groups
In this paper we address the question of the relative importance of within and between country differences in income and material deprivation in the European Union in the context of recent suggestions that insufficient attention has been paid to the latter. In particular, we respond to the argument that the ‘state bounded’ relative income approach obscures the significance of EU-wide reference groups. Making use of EU-SILC 2004, we have sought to…
Europeanization of inequality and European reference groups
In this article we take advantage of the availability of European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) data to address both weak and strong versions of the Europeanization of reference groups thesis. The former proposes that common standards of evaluation emerge as a consequence of knowledge of conditions in other societies. The latter argues that people increasingly perceive themselves as part of a larger European stratific…
Poverty in Ireland in Comparative European Perspective
Welfare regime and social class variation in poverty and economic vulnerability in Europe
In this paper we address a set of interrelated issues. These comprise increasing concerns about reliance on nationally based income poverty measures in the context of EU enlargement, the relative merits of one-dimensional versus multidimensional approaches to poverty and social exclusion and the continuing relevance of class-based explanations of life chances. When identifying economically vulnerable groups we find that, contrary to the situation…
Understanding the socio-economic distribution of multiple deprivation
Mapping patterns of multiple deprivation using self-organising maps
Work and Poverty in Ireland
There is broad recognition of the crucial role of employment in preventing poverty and in enabling poor households to move out of poverty (ILO, 2005; Caputo, 1991; OECD 1998, 2004). In this report we examine in detail the relationship between work and poverty in Ireland from 2004 to 2010 –a period of rapid economic change, spanning both strong growth and recession. Ireland is an interesting case because of the depth of the recession and because, …
Analysing Intergenerational Influences on Income Poverty and Economic Vulnerability With Eu-Silc
The European Union Statistics of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) 2005 wave includes a special module on inter-generational transmission of poverty. In addition to the standard data relating to income and material deprivation, information relating to parental background and childhood circumstances was collected for all household members aged over 24 and less than 66 at the end of the income reference period. In principle, the module provide…
Understanding material deprivation
Economics (31 works) · Economic growth (26 works) · Demographic economics (23 works) · Development economics (22 works) · Poverty (21 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (21 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (14 works) · European union (13 works)