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Employment and life-satisfaction: insights from Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2008)Mainstream neoclassical economics takes it as given that the consumption of goods and services (output) is positively related to well-being. Work (labour-input) is assumed to be negatively related to well-being at the ... -
Employment coefficients for Irish trade with extra-EEC countries - measurement and implications
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1981)This paper estimates the likely direction and size of changes in manufacturing employment associated with expansion of Ireland's extra-EEC trade. These changes are likely to be negative for extra-EEC trade generally, ... -
Employment relationships in Irish counties 1881-1971
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1988)An autonomous sector in a county is one which does not depend primarily on conditions outside that sector in the same county. Other sectors in a county are induced by activity in the autonomous sectors. For Ireland, ... -
Employment schemes in Ireland: an evaluation
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)The primary aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect which the following employment schemes (ES) had on the overall outflow rate and age-byduration outflow rates from unemployment in Ireland 1980(1)-1989(4): (a) Work ... -
EMS 10th anniversary issue - introduction
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)The European Community is frequently accused of being short on tangible achievements. Consequently, it seemed obvious to the editors of the Review that the 10th anniversary of the EMS was an occasion worthy of note. The ... -
Encumbered estates court, Ireland, 1848-1849
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)This study presents an account of the ;background of conditions in Ireland's thought, and legislative measures, to the establishment of an encumbered estates court in 1849. -
Endogenous sunk costs in the market for mobile telecommunications: the role of licence fees
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)An oligopoly model with endogenous sunk costs illustrates the trade off between ex ante extraction of oligopoly rents and market entry of firms in the mobile telecommunications industry. Competitive bidding for radio ... -
Entrepreneurship and development - an alternative perspective
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1984)Abstract: This paper offers an alternative to the more orthodox psychological approach to the study of entrepreneurship. It suggests that an adequate theory of entrepreneurship must consider a country's political and ... -
Entry in independent submarkets: an application to the Spanish retail banking market
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)This paper is aimed at the analysis of the banks? decisions to open branches in submarkets and, in particular, to test if these decisions can be considered mainly determined by what is happening in each submarket, irrespective ... -
Equality of opportunity in Irish schools - a reassessment
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1985)In a recent publication, we examined the available evidence on social mobility in the Republic of Ireland. Our contention that substantial inequalities exist conflicts sharply with the conclusion of Greaney and Kellaghan ... -
Equality studies, the academy and the role of research in emancipatory social change
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)If people are structurally excluded from democratic engagement with research practice, they are precluded from assessing its validity in an informed manner. They are effectively disenfranchised from controlling the ... -
Equity and the UK National Health Service: a review of the evidence
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1994)In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the distribution of health care and finance in the UK. This paper reviews the accumulating evidence. It discusses the empirical measures of equity used in the various ... -
Equity in the utilisation of health care in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)This paper analyses the extent of equity of health service delivery across the income distribution in Ireland ? that is the extent to which there is equal treatment for equal need irrespective of income. We find that ... -
Equity in the utilisation of hospital inpatient services in Ireland? an improved approach to the measurement of health need
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2007)The complex interweaving of public and private provision in Irish hospitals has led to concerns that hospital care is not available to all on the basis of need alone. Previous research on Irish hospitals found that utilisation ... -
Establishing of irish pound - backward glance
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1969)This paper proposes to examine the major structural developments in Irish banking during the decade of the nineteen-twenties. This was an era of great changes on the pohtical scene in Ireland, and also o f institutional ... -
Estate duty wealth estimates and mortality multiplier
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)Mortality multipliers are used in conjunction with estate duty data in many countries to estimate wealth distribution. Among the possible deficiencies of this approach is the fact that the estimates are dependent on the ... -
Estimates of a system of demand equations using alternative commodity classifications of Irish data, 1953-1974
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)The estimation of price and income elasticities for broad commodity groups has attracted a sizeable amount of attention from Irish researchers in recent years. As well as a series of single commodity studies, both from ... -
Estimates of new foreign manufacturing employment in Ireland (1956-1972)
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1987)The penetration of Irish manufacturing by transnational corporations (TNCs) has been one of the most important economic developments of the past thirty years. This article estimates the levels of employment in new TNCs for ... -
Estimates of the religious composition of Northern Ireland local-government districts in 1981 and change in the geographical pattern of religious composition between 1971 and 1981
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)The religious composition recorded in the 1981 census of population is unreliable because of the non-enumeration of individuals and non-response to the census question on religion. Two methods are described in the paper ... -
Estimating and testing CES production-functions on Irish 12-sector input-output data
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1987)Irish input-output data are used to estimate and test CES production functions for each of 12 sectors having 2 groups of input costs. The objective is to generalise input-output analysis to allow for price effects and ...