Browsing JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847- by Title
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The economics of "industrial revival" in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)I am anxious in this paper to promote an amicable discussion upon the question whether the people who are promoting the Industrial Development are "doing just what will have the opposite effect to that which they intend" -
The economics of equal pay
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1972)The importance of the concept of equal pay appears to derive from the notion that unequal pay represents discrimination against women, and hence is unjust. There is however a basic difficulty in defining "equal pay". ... -
The economics of Irish forestry
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1964)In reviewing the development of State Forestry in Ireland with particular regard to its economic implications, I propose to deal successively with three main periods of development?-1908-1922 and 1922-1958?which between ... -
Economies of scale and technical change in electricity production in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1980)Knowledge of the structure of production in public-utility enterprises is of considerable economic importance. Such things as the nature and extent of returns to scale and returns to individual factor inputs, the degree ... -
Education and economic performance in the OECD countries: an elusive relationship?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)One of the most common political mantras to-day is that education is the handmaiden of economic growth and prosperity. Politicians like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair constantly trumpet the need to invest in education and ... -
Education and Irish society - with special reference to informational needs
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1971)For the first time since the foundation of the State some data on the educational experience of the population were collected at the 1966 Census of Population, taken on the night of 17th April 1966. Information on age ... -
The education of American business men
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)There is in the modern business world, on the one hand, a new consciousness that education is an economic power which must be availed of. There is a growing feeling among statesmen and educationists, on the other hand, ... -
Education the surest preventive of crime, and the best safeguard of life, property, and social order
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)Our national system in Ireland has been productive of great good. I would extend its advantages by increasing its funds, and by constantly widening its sphere of influence. No limit in these respects should be put to ... -
The educational and other aspects of the statistics of crime in Dublin
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1861)By resisting the continued influx of country pauperism into the large towns; by repressing so far as is possible the tendency to this movement which is nourished by the circumstance that poor law aid is available only ... -
Educational endowments and their application to the middle class and higher education of girls and women
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)Educational endowments mean endowments applied for the purpose of education at school of boys and girls, or for the purpose of exhibitions tenable at a school or university, whether in the shape of payment to the governing ... -
Educational value of co-operation among Irish farmers
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1906)The object of this paper is not to dwell upon the advantages which co-operation confers upon the farmer as an institution for ordinary business puposes, but to bring before you its effect upon the "country as a medium ... -
The effect of the war on Irish agriculture
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1915)The subject of my address is not statistical. It is an attempt to show Irish farmers that as a result of the universal war prevailing in Europe we shall have in all probability a bad shortage of all kinds of provisions, ... -
The effect of war on prices
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)It is scarcely necessary to say that the common opinion upon this question?an opinion, too, that is shared by some economists of eminence ? is that a state of war necessarily tends to produce a general rise in the prices ... -
Effects and Complexities of Deeper Trade and Investment Treaties
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The effects of centralizing Irish local government in London, as illustrated by the operation of tlie centralized audit of Irish municipal corporation accounts
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1859)The result of all this machinery and divided responsibility is, as we have seen, that the work is not done. Just as the Indian mutiny showed the folly of the double government of India, the Belfast case shows the folly ... -
Effects of emigration; can it be made a means of relieving distress?
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)Many, for instance, we all know, are now occasionally assisted in our towns by benevolent individuals or associations. How much more effective might not this relief be, if instead of being given in small sums, it were ... -
Effects of R&D spending on innovation by Irish and foreign-owned businesses
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)This paper estimates the private returns to four different kinds of R&D spending on the probability of Irish and foreign-owned businesses engaging in product, process and organizational innovation. By providing econometric ... -
Eighty-fifth session 1931/1932
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The Electricity Supply Board
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1952)Within recent years the supply, of electricity has moved into a position of a definite importance in our everyday activities. There are many reasons for this, but chief amongst them is its great adaptability for use as a ...
