Archive JSSISI: 1847- Complete Collection: Recent submissions
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Demographic trends and the future of pensions in the UK
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2007)This article outlines the recommendations of the UK Pensions Commission, and the data and analysis on which they were based, including projections of demographic change, trends in private pension saving, and evolution of ... -
Housing in Ireland: philosophy, affordability and access
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2007)This paper argues that Ireland?s housing problems stem in part from a particular philosophical orientation which supports the ?commodification? of housing and gives strong encouragement to private market provision of housing ... -
Association rule analysis of CAO data
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2007)Central Applications Office (CAO) application data is analysed using a data mining technique, association rule mining, to investigate relationships between course choices across applicants. The role of gender as a factor ... -
Statement of the views of employers in the Irish Free State on the system of national health insurance
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1928)There are no ready sources of information to which one can turn for collective or individual statements as to the views of employers, and the only body representative of the business community which gave evidence before ... -
Address at the opening of the fifth session of the Dublin Statistical Society
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1851)Honoured by the request of the council of this society that I should, as acting vice-president, open the business of this its fifth session with such observations as might serve to supplement the annual report which, ... -
A consideration of the theory that the backward state of agriculture in Ireland is a consequence of the excessive competition for land
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1851)The theory, that injurious consequences result to the community from excessive competition for land, is one that has many supporters at the present time; and as the choice of measures for better regulating the relation ... -
Trade, growth and the role of demand - neoclassical and Keynesian explanations of Ireland's post war growth experience
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1985)This paper examines the nature of the trade growth relationship in post war Ireland. We consider two major theoretical approaches, the Neoclassical and the Keynesian, attempting to identify and contrast the key features ... -
On the advantages and disadvantages of indirect taxation, and a scheme for direct taxation which would be equitable, and combine the advantages of an indirect tax
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1851)There are two methods of lightening the pressure of those taxes which must be raised for the expenses of government; one, by lessening the expenditure; and the other, by so arranging taxation, that it shall press as ... -
On the relation between the material welfare and moral training of the industrious classes
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1851)We live in an age of industrial progress; improvements and inventions in the different arts and sciences, have furnished unprecedented facilities for the production of luxuries and comforts of every kind. Yet side by ... -
On the prospects of the beet sugar manufacture in Ireland
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1851)It was the great importance attached to the beet-sugar manufacture by some advocates of its introduction, which led me to direct my attention to the economic conditions necessary to its success. It is necessary to obtain ... -
On the self-dependence of the working classes under the law of competition
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1851)The view which I take is opposed to the opinions of some distinguished writers, among whom I regret to place Mr. John Stuart Mill. In various forms, through his work upon the "Elements of Political Economy," I find ... -
Trade statistics of the Irish Free State in 1924
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)I propose to confine my contribution to this discussion mainly to a consideration of the totals of Imports and Exports together with the excess of Imports shown in Table I. of Mr. Hooper's supplement to the December report. ... -
Trade statistics of the Irish Free State in 1924
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)An analysis of the Trade Statistics of dutiable goods must necessarily be narrow, as the number of articles liable to duty is, comparatively speaking, small. The total number of articles, both free and dutiable, shown ... -
Trade statistics of the Irish Free State in 1924: introduction [to Symposium]
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)The Irish Free State is a new world economic unit. Our business at this meeting is to consider the Trade Statistics of the Irish Free State for 1924, which is the first evidence we have got as to its actual stature both ... -
Trade statistics of the Irish Free State in 1924
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)The following is a criticism of Mr. Hooper's recent report on the trade of the Irish Free State during the year 1924. I shall have to excuse myself by mentioning that this paper is written at the request of our ... -
Trade statistics of the Irish Free State in 1924
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)At the outset of his Essay, Mr. Hooper gives us new information regarding three matters, viz.? Import and Export figures for (i) Transit Trade, which passes across without coming into ownership in this country, (the total ... -
Trade statistics of the Irish Free State in 1924
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1925)The complete figures of Imports and Exports covering a full twelve months will form a starting point for a series of yearly comparisons which as time goes on will become increasingly valuable. Pending the time when such ... -
Address of His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin [at the first Annual Meeting of the Social Inquiry Society of Ireland]
(Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)His Grace expressed his great satisfaction at the establishment of such a society as that, which seemed to him calculated to meet in some, perhaps in a very great measure, one very great evil, which was essentially ... -
Report of the Council, read at the Annual Meeting, 3rd November, 1851
(Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)?In presenting the first annual report of their proceedings, the council think it right, in the first instance, to explain the origin and objects of the society. This society was established by some members of ... -
Lecture on an international code of commerce morally and judicially considered
(Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1851)The purpose and end of all social inquiries is to connect abstract theories with the practical business of life; to discover that link by which the conception of an idea may be joined to its realization, and to analyse, ...
