Browsing Barrington Lectures by Title

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    • Schooling returns, schooling decisions and educational finance 

      Harmon, Colm (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2002)
      Given the presence of significant returns to education, it would seem logical to query why individuals choose to leave school early. This paper examines the evidence on this issue, dealing with both methodological and ...

    • 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, ...

    • Sustainable development - the challange for Irish economic policy-makers 

      McCoy, Daniel A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1993)
      Sustainable development has become a key phrase during the last decade in development and environmental literature. Governments and international bodies have adopted the goal of sustainable development with surprising ...

    • Taxation, work and gender equality in Ireland 

      Doorley, Karina (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2018)
      In most developed countries, economies are facing population ageing, falling fertility rates and stagnating labour force participation. The ability of governments to fund future pension and health-care expenditure relies ...

    • Understanding Income Inequality in Ireland 

      Roantree, Barra (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)
      This paper shows that inequality in disposable income has fallen substantially in Ireland between 1987 and 2017. However, inequality in market income has risen on most measures over the same period, leaving Ireland the ...

    • Wage inflation and structural unemployment in Ireland 

      Keeney, Mary J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2008)
      In this paper we represent structural unemployment by relating observed unemployment to wage inflation. An estimated series for the non-accelerating wage rate of unemployment (NAWRU) shows that the unemployment gap between ...

    • Well-being under conditions of abundance: Ireland from 1990-2007 

      Delaney, Liam (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2009)
      This paper examines the health and well-being of the Irish population in the late 20th century, the period popularly referred to as the Celtic Tiger. This period saw unprecedented increases in economic activity in Ireland. ...