Barrington Lectures: Recent submissions

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    • Institutional Investment in Housing: Financialisation 2.0 in the Case of Ireland 

      Daly, Pierce (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)
      This paper examines the growth of institutional housing investment in Ireland, part of a global phenomenon known as “Financialisation 2.0”. Using a unique Institutional Investment Database (IID) produced specifically for ...

    • Price, Size and Density: Dublin Housing in an EU Context 

      Kilgarriff, Paul (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2022)
      The current discussions and analysis around housing in Ireland lack a detailed analysis of the relationship between house size and prices in Ireland. Related to house size is the density of an area. In this paper I contribute ...

    • Understanding Income Inequality in Ireland 

      Roantree, Barra (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)
      This paper shows that inequality in disposable income has fallen substantially in Ireland between 1987 and 2017. However, inequality in market income has risen on most measures over the same period, leaving Ireland the ...

    • Taxation, work and gender equality in Ireland 

      Doorley, Karina (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2018)
      In most developed countries, economies are facing population ageing, falling fertility rates and stagnating labour force participation. The ability of governments to fund future pension and health-care expenditure relies ...

    • Seventy Years of Personal Disposable Income and Consumption in Ireland 

      Stuart, Rebecca (SSISI, 2017)
      This paper compiles annual data on personal consumption and personal disposable income for Ireland over the period 1944 to 2014 and goes on to estimate consumption functions. Having established that the series are cointegrated, ...

    • Progress and the Lack of Progress in Addressing Infant Health and Infant Health Inequalities in Ireland during the 20th Century 

      McGovern, Mark E. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)
      There is a growing literature which documents the importance of early life environment for outcomes across the life cycle. Research, including studies based on Irish data, demonstrates that those who experience better ...

    • Housing supply in Ireland since 1990: The role of costs and regulation 

      Lyons, Ronan C. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Statistical Society of Ireland, 2015)
      Housing has been central to both global and Irish economic fortunes in the past generation and was a major contributory factor in the Great Recession. Recently, greater attention has been paid around the world to the ...

    • Dis-entangling the mortgage arrears crisis: The role of the labour market, income volatility and negative equity 

      McCarthy, Yvonne (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2014)
      Despite various efforts to address the mortgage arrears crisis, arrears remain at an elevated level. Designing policies to deal with such high levels of distress requires a deep understanding of the precise sources of the ...

    • Destinations of Irish Exports: A Gravity Model Approach 

      Lawless, Martina (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2010)
      This paper uses a gravity model approach in order to analyse the geographical patterns of Irish exports. The gravity model in international trade has been demonstrated to be an extremely robust empirical method. The gravity ...

    • Well-being under conditions of abundance: Ireland from 1990-2007 

      Delaney, Liam (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2009)
      This paper examines the health and well-being of the Irish population in the late 20th century, the period popularly referred to as the Celtic Tiger. This period saw unprecedented increases in economic activity in Ireland. ...

    • Wage inflation and structural unemployment in Ireland 

      Keeney, Mary J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2008)
      In this paper we represent structural unemployment by relating observed unemployment to wage inflation. An estimated series for the non-accelerating wage rate of unemployment (NAWRU) shows that the unemployment gap between ...

    • Association rule analysis of CAO data 

      McNicholas, P. D. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2007)
      Central Applications Office (CAO) application data is analysed using a data mining technique, association rule mining, to investigate relationships between course choices across applicants. The role of gender as a factor ...

    • Ireland's recent productivity performance 

      O'Toole, Ronnie (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2005)
      This paper examines the reasons for the recent divergence in US and European productivity performance. The paper shows that the structure of European industry is ill suited to the challenge of innovation which has to be ...

    • Profits and wages in Ireland, 1987-1996 

      Lane, Philip R. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)
      A striking feature of the Irish economic resurgence since 1987 has been a major factor income shift away from labour and towards capital. (The profit share has increased from 25.1 per cent in 1987 to 34.8 per cent in 1996.) ...

    • Economic development in Ireland 

      Oldham, C.H. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1900)
      In laying before the members of this Society some considerations regarding the very wide subject of "Economic Development in Ireland," I have in view the situation created by the Agriculture and Technical Instruction ...

    • The fluctuating character of modern employment. 

      Oldham, C.H. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1896)
      I could not but feel how much Political Economy is unfairly discredited by the fact that the authoritative text-books within the reach of the ordinary reader are quite out-of-date upon many modern problems of great ...

    • The development of local government in Ireland 

      Horgan, John J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1946)
      Although I am only a new recruit to the ranks of this Society I have noticed that your proceedings are, as a rule, more concerned with the first rather than the second object of your title. I propose this evening to make ...

    • The impact of the war upon Irish economy 

      Meenan, James (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1940)
      The European war has given rise to many speculations, generally vague but almost always gloomy, upon its probable effects on Irish economic life. It is certain that the war has already brought about changes in our trade; ...

    • Preliminary notes on the Census of Population in Northern Ireland, 1937 

      Meenan, James (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1937)
      The second Census of the Six Counties of Northern Ireland was taken on February 28th, 1937. The preliminary figures of that Census have now been published, and it will be of some interest to discover how far they disclose ...

    • Aspects of the agricultural crisis at home and abroad 

      Johnston, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1935)
      A Barrington Lecture on the above subject has recently been given in Cork, Enniscorthy, Limerick and Sligo, and this paper represents the further elaboration of the material collected for that lecture. The paper itself ...