Browsing JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847- by Title

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    • The progress of the colony of Victoria 

      Webb, Alfred (Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)
      How has it happened that the colony of Victoria ? occupying a central position with regard to the other Australian colonies, and possessing a fine soil, a genial climate, and greater mineral wealth than any other part ...

    • Projecting population mortality for Ireland 

      Whelan, Shane (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2008)
      Mortality data for Ireland is analysed, for recent and long-run trends, and several methods of projecting mortality rates are outlined and the results compared. Interpretation of the results suggests that it is not ...

    • A promising timing strategy in equity markets 

      LUCEY, BRIAN MICHAEL; Whelan, Shane F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2002)
      In a working paper, Jacobsen and Bouman (2001) claim that that the old stock market saying of ?sell in May and go away but buy back by St. Leger Day? produces statistically significant profit when tested on a large ...

    • Proportional representation and the Irish Free State 

      Mackie, John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1927)
      In English-speaking-countries the system of P.R. uniformly adopted is that of the Single Transferable Vote, while on the Continent of Europe list systems are used. I do not feel that I am called upon tonight to examine ...

    • The proposal for the abolition of the income tax in Ireland considered 

      Lawson, William (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1899)
      Sundry remedies have been suggested to relieve the over-taxation of Ireland. I desire to consider one which has lately been advocated in the Press, namely, the abolition of the Income Tax in Ireland, whether it is ...

    • Proposals for a new Labourers' Bill: an attempt to solve the rural housing question in Ireland 

      Synnott, Nicholas J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)
      We have now had more than 20 years experience of the attempt to provide habitable houses for labourers in country districts in Ireland, by means of an elaborate code of seven Statutes, beginning with the Labourers' Act ...

    • The proposed re-valuation of land in Ireland: a survey of its meaning, scope, and effect 

      Synnott, Nicholas J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
      The clauses in the Finance Bill which provide for the general revaluation of all land in the United Kingdom should have for us in Ireland a special interest, which I fear has been absorbed or has disappeared in the ...

    • The proposed Technical Instruction Bill, and the science and art department 

      Coffey, George (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1889)
      Much dissatisfaction has been expressed from time to time with the Science and Art, or, as it is generally called, South Kensington system, and in the report of the late Commission on Technical Instruction, the department ...

    • The propriety of conceding the elective franchise to women 

      Webb, Alfred (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)
      The question of the propriety of conceding the elective franchise to women is now occupying a share of public attention in England, and as I am not aware that it has been discussed by this Society, I purpose drawing ...

    • Providing for old age through private channels 

      Honohan, W. A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1960)
      At a time when a Bill has been introduced into the Dail containing proposals for the inauguration of a contributory pensions scheme, it seems opportune to review the position generally in regard to the problem of old age ...

    • The Prussian agrarian reforms of the present century: their method and extent 

      Bailey, William F. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1890)
      Much misunderstanding exists, even among those who have made land reform a special study, respecting the principles and methods of the Prussian agrarian legislation of the present century. The prevailing belief is that ...

    • The psychology of labour 

      Boughey, William (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1923)
      To enter fully into such a subject as the Psychology of Labour would require a volume; I merely desire, therefore, to put forward a few leading facts which I hope may help us to a closer study of the subject and hence ...

    • Public assistance 

      Collins, John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1943)
      The Public Assistance Act, 1939, which came into operation last August, is now the legal basis of public assistance. It replaced the Poor Relief Acts so far as they related to the administration of relief and combines ...

    • The public debt of the Irish Free State 

      Brennan, Joseph (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1935)
      It is intended in this paper to review certain salient facts in regard to the public debt of the Irish Free State. It will be understood that it would not be possible within the limits of time and space available to ...

    • Public enterprise in Ireland: a statistical description and analysis 

      Sweeney, Paul (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1990)
      There is much debate on the role of public enterprises, but little analytical work has been done on the subject in Ireland. Fitzgerald (1961), Bristow (1964/65, 1968, 1969 and 1982), Jacobson (1978), the National Economic ...

    • Public expenditure in the regional economy of Northern Ireland: has the growth of the 1970s been sustained? 

      Hutchinson, Graeme (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1999)
      In terms of the overall objective of the paper, the primary focus for analysis relates to the way in which the growth of public expenditure in Northern Ireland has changed since the 1970s. Simpson (1980) documented this ...

    • The public finances of Ireland 

      Oldham, C.H. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1920)
      It is the aim of this paper to notice as simply as possible the changes produced by the War conditions in the revenue and expenditure of Ireland: as these are exhibited in the annual returns popularly known as the ...

    • Public house reform 

      Lawson, William (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)
      The writer of an article in our leading journal (1) says:?"The need of the moment is not to abolish the public-house, but to reform it. The first step is to give a very substantial preference in treatment to houses ...

    • Public policy, sectoral specialisation and spatial concentration: Irish manufacturing 1985-2002 

      Gleeson, Anne-Marie; Ruane, Frances; Sutherland, J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2006)
      For over fifty years Ireland has pursued an industrial policy that has had at its core the generation of sustainable manufacturing jobs spread across all regions of the country. From the late 1980s the emphasis on ...

    • The Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885, generally known as Lord Ashbourne's Act 

      Edge, J. H. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1887)
      Notwithstanding that a Royal Commission is now sitting to examine into the working of this measure, it may be useful for the purpose of drawing forth public opinion, that our society should discuss some of the questions ...