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

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    • The science budget 

      O hEocha, Colm (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1970)
      It has become very fashionable in these days to speak of a country's 'science policy' and most countries now have somewhere in the government structure a body, or bodies, which advise on the uses of science for the ...

    • Scope and method of econometrics: illustrated by applications to American agriculture 

      Tintner, Gerhard (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1949)
      Econometrics is the application of a specific method in the general field of economic science in an effort to achieve numerical results and to verify economic theorems. It consists in the application of mathematical economic ...

    • Scottish Private Bill Legislation in working 

      Samuels, Arthur W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)
      Were it not for the fact that a Private Legislation Reform Bill for Wales, passed unanimously on the 25th March, 1904 its second reading in the House of Commons, and that not a single Irish Member brought forward the ...

    • Second Surge: Population Growth in Ireland since 1995 

      Fahey, Tony (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2022)

    • Second tier child income support: the case for innovation 

      Sweeney, John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2008)
      Total and per child spending on child income supports are at high levels, and so are child poverty and the proportion of children being reared in jobless households. While the role of child income supports in alleviating ...

    • Selection of three essayists on the differences in the laws in the several parts of the United Kingdom, and on the best means of effecting assimilation where desirable 

      SSISI (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1875)
      The Council of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland propose to select three essayists to prepare essays on the following branches of the above subject: (1) On the difference of Division of Jurisdiction ...

    • Sensible tax policies in open economies 

      Hines, James R. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2004)
      This paper evaluates the design and the desirability of business taxes in small open economies, in light of evidence of the impact of taxation on the activities of multinational firms. The high degree of international ...

    • The session of the International Institute of Statistics at Mexico, 1933 

      Lyon, Stanley (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1934)
      It is not proposed to give here an account of each paper, but the following summaries of some of the more important papers will give a general idea of their subject matter. The volumes of the Bulletin which will be ...

    • 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, ...

    • The Sherborn Massachusetts Reformatory Prison for Women. 

      Webb, Alfred (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1897)
      For reasons which it is not here necessary to state, the subject of prisons, imprisonment, and prison discipline, has claimed somewhat of my attention. I would briefly direct your attention to the Massachusetts Reformatory ...

    • A short review of the general financial principles and methods of Irish and British social insurance schemes 

      Honohan, W. A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1943)
      The social insurance schemes at present in operation are those relating to health, unemployment and pensions. These schemes are distinguishable from other social schemes by the fact that direct contributions are taken ...

    • Short-term economic forecasting 

      Menton, Brendan (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1965)
      The main purpose of short-term economic forecasting is to try to assess prospective economic conditions as a guide to the policy required to maintain economic activity at the liighest sustainable level. The period of ...

    • Should boards of guardians endeavour to make pauper-labour self supporting or should they investigate the causes of pauperism? 

      Hancock, W. Neilson (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)
      The controversies, as well theoretical as practical, respecting the mode in which poor laws should be administered, have generally arisen from taking too narrow a view of the subject. The all important question of the ...

    • Should the list of authorised trustee investments in the Irish Free State be extended? 

      Eason, Charles (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1932)
      I recommend that to the list of authorised investments should be added some Free State Securities, some Securities in Northern Ireland and some in Foreign Countries and British Dominions. But before doing so I review ...

    • Should the Local Government Acts be extended to Ireland? 

      Hancock, John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1869)
      In September, 1867, at the request of the Council of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, I read a paper at the Belfast Congress in answer to the question, " Should the Local Government Acts be ...

    • Should the tenant of land possess the property in the improvements made by him? 

      Heron, Denis Caulfield (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1852)
      I wish to discuss the question which I have prefixed to this paper for the consideration of the society, without direct reference to the existing Tenant Right of Ulster, or to the reforms in the law of real property ...

    • The significance of some recent Irish statistics 

      Finlay, T.A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1913)
      The Statistics published from time to time by Government Departments are often accepted as indicating, without further interpretation, the prosperity of a nation. It is assumed that when we know the amount of wealth ...

    • The significance of veterinary science in the national economy 

      Harnett, P. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)
      I propose to go into the economic significance of veterinary science in the Republic of Ireland and to relate the evidence to the year 1954. The most significant figures I have arrived at are derived from the returns on ...

    • Sir Robert Peel's Bank Act of 1844 explained and defended 

      Hancock, W. Neilson (Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)
      THERE are few acts of parliament more important in themselves, or which have given rise to more discussion, than Sir Robert Peel's celebrated Bank Act of 1844 (7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 32). I am anxious to take an opportunity ...

    • Sixty-sixth session 1912/1913 

      Unknown author (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1913)