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at enhancing life-chances, and thus reducing the relative costs of educational
participation, for young people from working-class backgrounds. Such
interventions are particularly important in the context of the strong link between
educational background and labour market integration in the Irish context
(Hannan, Raffe, Smyth, 1996).
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