Marie Hyland

Research officer, Social policies research unit

Marie Hyland joined Eurofound as a research officer in the Social Policies unit in 2023. Prior to this, Marie spent several years as an economist at the World Bank, where she worked on a range of issues including gender, climate change and private sector development. Marie’s research has looked at the impact of legal discrimination on women’s economic empowerment, considered the role of firm size and managerial practices on productivity and economic development, and analysed the economics of climate change mitigation policies. Marie holds a PhD in Economics from Trinity College Dublin.

Topics
Social protection

Staff

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Outputs by Marie Hyland

Results (4)

Social protection 2.0: Unemployment and minimum income benefits

This report focuses on unemployment and minimum income benefits for people of working age. Individuals with short or no employment records (mainly young people), the self-employed, those with non-standard working arrangements, and the long-term unemployed are often not entitled to higher-tier, or

08 October 2024
Publication
Research report
Social protection
Public services
Living conditions and quality of life
Unemployment

Becoming adults: Young people in a post-pandemic world

During the pandemic, many young people had to change their plans for the future. While at the end of 2023 young people’s labour market situation was more favourable than it had been in recent years, many obstacles remained on their route to independence, such as the rising cost of living and

21 May 2024
Publication
Research report
Youth
Living conditions and quality of life
NEETs
Subjective well-being
Psychosocial risks
Labour market policies

Social protection for the unemployed - Background paper

This background paper focuses on one important aspect of social protection: unemployment benefits, both first tier (usually contributory) and lower tier (predominantly tax-based, non-contributory and means-tested). Unemployment benefits help to cushion the impact of job loss on household finances an

02 February 2024
Publication
Customised report
Social protection
Unemployment
Living conditions and quality of life

Bridging the rural-urban divide: Addressing inequalities and empowering communities

The urban-rural divide in EU countries has grown in recent years, and the depopulation of certain rural areas in favour of cities is a challenge when it comes to promoting economic development and maintaining social cohesion and convergence.

18 October 2023
Publication
Research report
Quality of society
Public services
Living conditions and quality of life
Promoting social cohesion and convergence
Pay and income
Trust
Living conditions
Care
Results (1)

Europe’s widening rural–urban divide may make space for far right

The state in which the EU finds itself has been described as a ‘permacrisis’, whereby the Union is confronted by challenge after challenge, and citizens are constantly having to adapt to a ‘new normal’.

11 December 2023
Marie Hyland
Blog
Inequality
Promoting social cohesion and convergence
Social inclusion
Trust
Living conditions and quality of life