JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847-: Recent submissions
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Towards an Irish Recorded Crime Index
(SSISI, 2017)Recorded crime statistics form an important component of criminal justice and social policy. Of equal importance as the number of crimes however, is measuring the seriousness of these crimes. The Irish Recorded Crime Index ... -
Dublin House Prices: A History of Booms and Busts from 1708-1949
(SSISI, 2017)This paper presents an annual property price index for Dublin over the period 1708-1949. Obtaining the data for a historical index and presenting it was the objective of this research. It was done in the belief that any ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry of Ireland One Hundred and Sixty-Ninth Session: 2015/2016
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Memoriam: Brendan Walsh
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)Memoriam: Brendan Walsh - 53rd President of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland (2001-2004) - Born: May 1942 (Dublin); Died: 20th May 2016 (Dublin) -
A Hundred and Fifty Years of Vital Statistics: Documenting Demographic Change in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)In December 2015 the CSO published the 150th annual Vital Statistics volume (for 2013) – a publication which has played a central role in documenting demographic change in Ireland since the first edition for 1864. This ... -
Earnings and Low Pay in the Republic of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)As signs of economic recovery continue to emerge, issues relating to quality of life, living standards, the provision of public services and adequacy of income are returning to the policy sphere. Included among these are ... -
Progress and the Lack of Progress in Addressing Infant Health and Infant Health Inequalities in Ireland during the 20th Century
(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 ... -
Estimating the impact of household energy savings measures for Ireland using the BER database
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)This paper estimates the impacts of various household energy saving measures in Ireland. The analysis develops a matrix of household energy use and types based on the Building Energy Rating (BER) system and the major ... -
A Discursive Institutionalist Approach to Understanding the Changes to the Irish Social Partnership Policy After 2008
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)Employing the critical juncture theory (CJT), a discursive institutionalist approach, this paper examines the nature of the changes to social partnership policy at the end of the decade of the 2000s. Did these changes ... -
A Tale of Two Clusters: The Evolution of Ireland’s Economic Complexity since 1995
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)This paper characterizes the evolution of the manufacturing and industrial export structure of Ireland since 1995 within the framework of Economic Complexity and the Product Space. We observe a high level of specialisation ... -
An approach to estimating the effects of financing system change on Irish healthcare expenditure
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)The Irish healthcare system is a complex mix of public and private. The system is predominantly tax-financed (in 2013, 77 per cent of healthcare financing came from general taxation revenues); however, private health ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry of Ireland One Hundred and Sixty-Eighth Session: 2014/2015
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Housing supply in Ireland since 1990: The role of costs and regulation
(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 ... -
A profile of financial incentives to work in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Statistical Society of Ireland, 2015)Tax and benefit systems have to strike a balance between the goals of providing an adequate safety-net income to those who need it and maintaining adequate incentives to take up employment and to increase earnings. Ireland ... -
Was the early food the late poison? Foreign banks and the retail credit market during Ireland's financial crisis
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Statistical Society of Ireland, 2015)Ireland's banking system is among the most open in the world, with a significant amount of the industry headquartered in other countries. In this paper we examine the development of the industry in the run up to the recent ... -
Union membership in Ireland since 2003
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Statistical Society of Ireland, 2015)Using data from the Quarterly National Household Survey supplemented with some data from the European Social Survey we document a steady decline in union density in Ireland since 2003. While the great recession appeared ... -
The equality impact of the unemployment crisis
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Statistical Society of Ireland, 2015)The extent of the Great Recession in Ireland is well documented. Real GDP fell by 10 per cent between 2008 and 2010 (Barrett and McGuinness, 2012). The impact that this large fall in economic activity had on the country’s ... -
The Funding of the Irish Domestic Banking System During the Boom?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Statistical Society of Ireland, 2015)This paper analyses the funding of the Irish domestic banking system during the boom period. We highlight: the shifting roles of deposit and bond funding; the prominence of foreign banks as funding counterparties; the role ... -
Developments in the Irish labour market during the crisis: What lessons for policy?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Statistical Society of Ireland, 2015)This paper provides a comprehensive description of the evolution of the Irish labour market over the past fifteen years, with a particular emphasis on the crisis-related adjustment and its consequences. The sectoral aspect ... -
Financial constraints and the internationalisation of Irish firms
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Statistical Society of Ireland, 2015)This paper examines whether financial constraints have hindered the expansion of Irish firms internationally since the financial crisis. Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of multinational corporations ...
