Browsing JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847- by Title
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Implications for public policy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1997)The Department of Social Welfare and the Pensions Board commissioned the ESRI to undertake a national survey of pension coverage in 1995. The survey shows that only half of all employees at work are covered by an ... -
Implications for public policy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1997)Ladies and Gentlemen, I am grateful to the Society for inviting me to make a contribution to your meeting. My contribution takes the form of some random, but I hope fairly provocative, thoughts on pension related matters. ... -
The importance of industrial education
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)In the course of some recent investigations which involved enquiry into the working and results of Reformatory and Industrial Schools, it seemed to me that the subject had not yet received the attention it merited, on the ... -
The importance of structural change in industry for growth
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2000)The paper documents ongoing job creation and job destruction within 3- digit Irish manufacturing sectors over the period 1973 to 1994. Within sectors of low-technology manufacturing, this was due to the gradual development ... -
The improvement of Dublin harbour
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1912)I do not think, that it would serve any useful purpose to trace the early development of the Port. The fact is that for years all goods were carted through the streets to and from Kingsbridge, Amiens street, Westland ... -
Improving coherence between Irish trade and development policy from an African perspective
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2006)The recent Irish Trade Policy Statement devoted a whole chapter to the trade needs of developing countries (DETE, 2005). In it, the Government recognises the role that trade policy can play in providing economic development ... -
In Memoriam - Miriam Hederman O’Brien - Remarks on the Occasion of the Launch of the Online Archive of the Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2022)EDITOR’S NOTE: The late Dr Miriam Hederman O’Brien (1932-2022) joined the Council of the Society in 1988 and became Vice President in 2005. In her honour we publish her speech made on 16th May 2007 in the Long Room of the ... -
The incidence and prevalence of psychiatric illness in Ireland: a progress report
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1976)Epidemiological observations deal broadly with the estimation of the incidence and prevalence of a given condition both in local communities, in whole nations as well as some sections of whole nations, such as the black ... -
The incidence of emigration on town and country life in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1914)To the student of economics Ireland always presents a budget of paradoxes. Things which are abnormal elsewhere are here normal and commonplace. The usual laws of cause and effect may, by an act of faith, be presumed ... -
Income and Employment Impacts: Early Evidence from Administrative Data
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)This public policy brief uses newly available administrative data to examine the income and employment impacts of COVID-19 during the depths of the economy’s shutdown in 2020. It highlights the extent of labour market churn ... -
Income and income tax inequalities in Ireland – New evidence and further illustration of the progressivity of the Irish income tax system
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2014)This paper presents new estimates of income and income tax inequalities in Ireland during 2001- 2012, using publicly available (grouped) data from the Revenue Commissioners. The analysis is based on a novel estimator for ... -
Income Inequality and Living Standards
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Income tax statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1935)In reading this paper I realise that I have to try to make it interesting not only to those who are already well informed on the Income Tax code, but also to those who are possibly not; I have, moreover, to consider not ... -
Income Volatility on Dairy Farms in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2021)Income volatility on Irish dairy farms is an established and growing phenomenon. In this paper, we use panel data from the Teagasc National Farm Survey to analyse the recent evolution of farm income volatility on Irish ... -
Income-Tested Health Entitlements: Microsimulation Modelling Using SILC
(SSISI, 2017)The application of microsimulation techniques to tax and welfare policies is well established in many countries, including Ireland. The richness of the data contained in SILC, the CSO’s Survey on Income and Living Conditions, ... -
Induced employment in the marketed services sectors in Ireland 1975
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1985)In this paper I propose to use the I 0 tables to investigate the extent to which employment in the marketed services is due to the demand for agricultural and industrial goods. The term industry as it is used in this paper ... -
The industrial awakening of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1914)It is now ten years since Mr. Bailey in his Presidential address of 1903 took as his subject "Ireland since the Famine." I am inclined to think that we now stand in 1913 upon the threshold of another mighty change, the ... -
Industrial development
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1983)The recent review of industrial policy is the first major industrial policy review since the gradual shift in economic policies some twenty years ago from promoting import substituting native industries by tariffs and ... -
Industrial Ireland under free trade
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1917)When Ireland, by a determined effort, obtained "FREE TRADE" in 1779, this term meant far more than freedom from- tariff duties, which is the meaning it has today. What the British Acts (20 Geo. III., c. 6, 10, 18) ...
