B Halpin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 258701 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | B Halpin |
| NOMBRES | B |
| APELLIDO | Halpin |
| FIRMA | HALPIN B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Limerick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2146-5926 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 167 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Is Education Now Class Destiny? Class Histories across Three British Birth Cohorts
We investigate claims originating in the work of Daniel Bell that in post-industrial societies, educational qualifications obtained prior to labour market entry increasingly determine individuals’ class positions—while opportunities for achieving upward class mobility over the course of working life correspondingly diminish. We apply optimal matching techniques of sequence analysis as a basis for constructing typologies of class histories for men…
Who are the Irish in Britain? Evidence from Large-scale Surveys
Large-scale surveys tell us a lot about the Irish in Britain, despite their relatively low proportion in the population. This chapter discusses the Labour Force Survey (LFS), the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the British portion of the multinational European Community Household Panel survey (ECHP). In this section a number of further characteristics of the Irish in Britain are examined, namely education, religion, health, region, and …
Anglo-Irish Tomb Effigy Armour
This work examines two related armour types unique to Ireland and found only on tomb effigies dating to the late medieval period. The aim of this paper is to establish how the armour may have been constructed, whether it was practical and usable compared to better-known armour types, and how it may have fitted into the Irish style of warfare. Within this work the most likely construction methods and layout of the armour have been tested by making…
Optimal Matching Analysis and Life-Course Data
The optimal matching (OM) algorithm is widely used for sequence analysis in sociology. It has a natural interpretation for discrete-time sequences but is also widely used for life-history data, which are continuous in time. Life-history data are arguably better dealt with in terms of episodes rather than as strings of time-unit observations, and in this article, the author examines whether the OM algorithm is unsuitable for such sequences. A modi…
Educational homogamy in Ireland and Britain
This paper examines the pattern of educational homogamy in Ireland and Britain. Using contemporary data on recent marriages from the early 1970s through to the mid-1990s, we show that these two countries share a broadly similar pattern of educational homogamy, which is quasi-symmetric in character, with no tendency for women to marry up over and above that which can be attributed to the gender difference in educational attainment. In the 1970s, t…
Union Dissolution in the United Kingdom
This article uses recent panel data to explore the dynamics of divorce in the United Kingdom. The findings are consistent with the independence hypothesis, but reveal little impact of gender-role attitudes or domestic division of labor. The article also finds a robust effect of children in raising the risk of divorce
Simulation in Society
Simulation in Sociology
Simulation has a long and checkered history in areas of substantive interest to sociology, from before Forrester's model of overpopulation to up-to-the-minute approaches based on complexity theory or distributed artificial intelligence. Although in some respects it has failed to live up to its inflated promise, it offers nonetheless a very useful paradigm. Moreover, advancing simulation technology offers some advantages, particularly the modellin…
Is Class Changing? A Work-Life History Perspective on the Salariat
Has the massive transformation of the class structure over the twentieth century changed the consequences of class? In particular, does the fact that the salariat has taken over from the manual working classes as the largest category mean that the implications of membership of the salariat for one's life chances is no longer the same? This paper takes retrospective life-history data from the British Household Panel Study and models patterns of ch…
Unified BHPS Work-Life Histories
Longitudinal data is often difficult to use, and continuous histories collected in a panel are a particularly unfriendly case. This paper reports an exercise to re-organise the British Household Panel Study's work-life history data into a format more convenient for analysis. The British Household Panel Study collects extensive labour market history information from its respondents, both during the panel period and retrospectively from labour mark…
Current Issues in Stratification in the United Kingdom
From the early 1990s and before then: has been a sustained attack on the concept of social class in the UK and elsewhere, largely making the point that it carries a lot of Marxist and historicist baggage, and is demonstrably irrelevant to the analysis of contemporary industrial society (Hindess, 1987; Turner, 1989; SØrenson, 1991). For instance, in 1989, Ray Pahl asked “is the emperor naked?”; more recently Pakulski and Waters (1996) have announc…
Paths to Success
Class Careers as Sequences
We apply optimal matching techniques to class careers from age 15 to age 35 for two moderately large samples, as a means of exploring the utility of this sequence-oriented approach for the analysis of work-life social mobility. We first apply multi-dimensional scaling techniques to the inter-sequence distances generated by the optimal matching algorithm in order to test whether the technique locates sequences in a coherent and interpretable space…
Changing Forms of Employment
Children, Standard of Living and Distributions in the Family
The standard of living of children depends on (i) family income; (ii) production within the family; (iii) economies of scale within the family; and (iv) distributions within the family. We use 1976 and 1986 Family Expenditure Survey information on (i), models of housework time based on time-budget surveys to estimate (ii), and equivalence scales to take account of (iii)
Class Careers as Sequences
We apply optimal matching techniques to class careers from age 15 to age 35 for two moderately large samples, as a means of exploring the utility of this sequence-oriented approach for the analysis of work-life social mobility. We first apply multi-dimensional scaling techniques to the inter-sequence distances generated by the optimal matching algorithm in order to test whether the technique locates sequences in a coherent and interpretable space…
Union Dissolution in the United Kingdom
This article uses recent panel data to explore the dynamics of divorce in the United Kingdom. The findings are consistent with the independence hypothesis, but reveal little impact of gender-role attitudes or domestic division of labor. The article also finds a robust effect of children in raising the risk of divorce
Educational homogamy in Ireland and Britain
This paper examines the pattern of educational homogamy in Ireland and Britain. Using contemporary data on recent marriages from the early 1970s through to the mid-1990s, we show that these two countries share a broadly similar pattern of educational homogamy, which is quasi-symmetric in character, with no tendency for women to marry up over and above that which can be attributed to the gender difference in educational attainment. In the 1970s, t…
Is Education Now Class Destiny? Class Histories across Three British Birth Cohorts
We investigate claims originating in the work of Daniel Bell that in post-industrial societies, educational qualifications obtained prior to labour market entry increasingly determine individuals’ class positions—while opportunities for achieving upward class mobility over the course of working life correspondingly diminish. We apply optimal matching techniques of sequence analysis as a basis for constructing typologies of class histories for men…
Optimal Matching Analysis and Life-Course Data
The optimal matching (OM) algorithm is widely used for sequence analysis in sociology. It has a natural interpretation for discrete-time sequences but is also widely used for life-history data, which are continuous in time. Life-history data are arguably better dealt with in terms of episodes rather than as strings of time-unit observations, and in this article, the author examines whether the OM algorithm is unsuitable for such sequences. A modi…
Changing Forms of Employment
Unified BHPS Work-Life Histories
Longitudinal data is often difficult to use, and continuous histories collected in a panel are a particularly unfriendly case. This paper reports an exercise to re-organise the British Household Panel Study's work-life history data into a format more convenient for analysis. The British Household Panel Study collects extensive labour market history information from its respondents, both during the panel period and retrospectively from labour mark…
Simulation in Sociology
Simulation has a long and checkered history in areas of substantive interest to sociology, from before Forrester's model of overpopulation to up-to-the-minute approaches based on complexity theory or distributed artificial intelligence. Although in some respects it has failed to live up to its inflated promise, it offers nonetheless a very useful paradigm. Moreover, advancing simulation technology offers some advantages, particularly the modellin…
Is Class Changing? A Work-Life History Perspective on the Salariat
Has the massive transformation of the class structure over the twentieth century changed the consequences of class? In particular, does the fact that the salariat has taken over from the manual working classes as the largest category mean that the implications of membership of the salariat for one's life chances is no longer the same? This paper takes retrospective life-history data from the British Household Panel Study and models patterns of ch…
Paths to Success
Changing Forms of Employment
Children, Standard of Living and Distributions in the Family
The standard of living of children depends on (i) family income; (ii) production within the family; (iii) economies of scale within the family; and (iv) distributions within the family. We use 1976 and 1986 Family Expenditure Survey information on (i), models of housework time based on time-budget surveys to estimate (ii), and equivalence scales to take account of (iii)
Unified BHPS Work-Life Histories
Longitudinal data is often difficult to use, and continuous histories collected in a panel are a particularly unfriendly case. This paper reports an exercise to re-organise the British Household Panel Study's work-life history data into a format more convenient for analysis. The British Household Panel Study collects extensive labour market history information from its respondents, both during the panel period and retrospectively from labour mark…
Current Issues in Stratification in the United Kingdom
From the early 1990s and before then: has been a sustained attack on the concept of social class in the UK and elsewhere, largely making the point that it carries a lot of Marxist and historicist baggage, and is demonstrably irrelevant to the analysis of contemporary industrial society (Hindess, 1987; Turner, 1989; SØrenson, 1991). For instance, in 1989, Ray Pahl asked “is the emperor naked?”; more recently Pakulski and Waters (1996) have announc…
Paths to Success
Class Careers as Sequences
We apply optimal matching techniques to class careers from age 15 to age 35 for two moderately large samples, as a means of exploring the utility of this sequence-oriented approach for the analysis of work-life social mobility. We first apply multi-dimensional scaling techniques to the inter-sequence distances generated by the optimal matching algorithm in order to test whether the technique locates sequences in a coherent and interpretable space…
Simulation in Society
Simulation in Sociology
Simulation has a long and checkered history in areas of substantive interest to sociology, from before Forrester's model of overpopulation to up-to-the-minute approaches based on complexity theory or distributed artificial intelligence. Although in some respects it has failed to live up to its inflated promise, it offers nonetheless a very useful paradigm. Moreover, advancing simulation technology offers some advantages, particularly the modellin…
Is Class Changing? A Work-Life History Perspective on the Salariat
Has the massive transformation of the class structure over the twentieth century changed the consequences of class? In particular, does the fact that the salariat has taken over from the manual working classes as the largest category mean that the implications of membership of the salariat for one's life chances is no longer the same? This paper takes retrospective life-history data from the British Household Panel Study and models patterns of ch…
Union Dissolution in the United Kingdom
This article uses recent panel data to explore the dynamics of divorce in the United Kingdom. The findings are consistent with the independence hypothesis, but reveal little impact of gender-role attitudes or domestic division of labor. The article also finds a robust effect of children in raising the risk of divorce
Educational homogamy in Ireland and Britain
This paper examines the pattern of educational homogamy in Ireland and Britain. Using contemporary data on recent marriages from the early 1970s through to the mid-1990s, we show that these two countries share a broadly similar pattern of educational homogamy, which is quasi-symmetric in character, with no tendency for women to marry up over and above that which can be attributed to the gender difference in educational attainment. In the 1970s, t…
Optimal Matching Analysis and Life-Course Data
The optimal matching (OM) algorithm is widely used for sequence analysis in sociology. It has a natural interpretation for discrete-time sequences but is also widely used for life-history data, which are continuous in time. Life-history data are arguably better dealt with in terms of episodes rather than as strings of time-unit observations, and in this article, the author examines whether the OM algorithm is unsuitable for such sequences. A modi…
Anglo-Irish Tomb Effigy Armour
This work examines two related armour types unique to Ireland and found only on tomb effigies dating to the late medieval period. The aim of this paper is to establish how the armour may have been constructed, whether it was practical and usable compared to better-known armour types, and how it may have fitted into the Irish style of warfare. Within this work the most likely construction methods and layout of the armour have been tested by making…
Who are the Irish in Britain? Evidence from Large-scale Surveys
Large-scale surveys tell us a lot about the Irish in Britain, despite their relatively low proportion in the population. This chapter discusses the Labour Force Survey (LFS), the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the British portion of the multinational European Community Household Panel survey (ECHP). In this section a number of further characteristics of the Irish in Britain are examined, namely education, religion, health, region, and …
Is Education Now Class Destiny? Class Histories across Three British Birth Cohorts
We investigate claims originating in the work of Daniel Bell that in post-industrial societies, educational qualifications obtained prior to labour market entry increasingly determine individuals’ class positions—while opportunities for achieving upward class mobility over the course of working life correspondingly diminish. We apply optimal matching techniques of sequence analysis as a basis for constructing typologies of class histories for men…
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