Economic and Social Review: Recent submissions

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    • Distribution of personal wealth in Northern-Ireland 

      Lyons, PM (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1972)
      The economist shares an interest with the rest of mankind in wealth, the manner in which it is held, by persons in a state and its distribution among those persons. Current wealth is a measure both of past economic growth, ...

    • Production functions for 14 subsectors of Irish industry, 1960-1968, for purpose of estimating employment 

      Henry, EW (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1972)
      During this past year two important research publications on production functions for Irish industry have appeared, by Kennedy and by Farley. The first analyses the growth rate of net output per unit of labour as a function ...

    • Kinship, neighbourhood and social change in Irish rural communities 

      Hannan, D (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1972)
      Rural communities in the West of Ireland, even in the most remote, and most traditional areas have experienced immense social organisational and cultural changes during the past twenty years. Indeed, in many respects, these ...

    • Econometric study of British tourist expenditure in Ireland 

      Barry, Kevin; O' Hagan, John (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1972)
      The amount of research devoted to tourism is not commensurate with its economic importance. The reasons for this scarcity of research are numerous and mostly concern the inherent difficulties of the subject. The purpose ...

    • Note on national and county car ownership projections in ireland 

      O' Farrell, PN; Markham, J; McLoughl, T (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      In recent years Irish transportation problems have attracted considerable public interest and controversy. The principal reason for this has been the rapid rise in car ownership levels which expresses itself most clearly ...

    • Human capital and economic growth - United Kingdom, 1951-1961 

      Moreh, J (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      In recent years, economists have been turning their exploratory energies in increasing measure towards investment in human-beings, such as formal education, post-school training, health, migration and information. Of these, ...

    • Old age in Northern Ireland - study of elderly in a sea-side town 

      Harrison, E;; McKeown, M; O' Shea, T (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      Northern Ireland's social policy is governed by the principle of parity with Britain. This means that British measures of social welfare are usually adopted in Northern Ireland. There are often administrative modifications, ...

    • Capital formation, technical change and labour productivity improvement - analysis of a cross-section of Irish manufacturing industries 1953-1967 

      Farley, Noel J.J. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      The recent economic literature has given a good deal of attention to the analysis of production and technical change. During the second half of the 1950's, Solow published his path-breaking article on the causes of labour ...

    • Some political behaviour patterns and attitudes of roman catholic priests in a rural part of Northern Ireland 

      Fahy, Patrick A. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      The activities of churchmen in the field of politics can be approached by the political scientist on two levels. On the macro-political level, the church as a whole is taken to be the unit of analysis. This approach views ...

    • Fiscal policy and demand management in Ireland 1960-70 

      Ryan, L (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      This paper discusses fiscal policy and the management of the Irish economy during the years 1960-70. The role of fiscal policy in demand management, as most economists would probably nowadays see it, is described in Section ...

    • Economic specification of neoclassical production function - case study 

      Ross, M (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      A production function may be defined as the mathematical expression of the technological information which relates the quantities of inputs to quantities of outputs. As such, the concept is perfectly general and a specific ...

    • Observations on age at marriage in Dublin, related to social status and social mobility 

      Hutchins, B (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      The years since the Second World War have been characterised by a general decline in mean age at marriage in the Western world: people are marrying at earlier ages than was usual in the immediate past. Ireland has proved ...

    • Output, prices and productivity in Irish sheltered and exposed transportable goods industries, 1953-1967 

      Hughes, JG (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      In a paper on price and income determination in the Norwegian economy, Aukrust classifies industries as being either sheltered or exposed. He defines exposed industries as 'those which market their products abroad, or on ...

    • Science, technology and development 

      Cooper, Charles (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      The purpose of these two papers is to discuss hypotheses which may help to explain the limited growth of science and technology in the under-developed economies, and to explain also the restricted social function of science ...

    • Note on discount rates and present values 

      Bristow, J.A. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      It is a long-established proposition that, under profit maximising conditions, the interest elasticity of investment will vary positively with the length of life of projects. Thus, Shackle ( i , Chap. XI) proves that the ...

    • Difficulties in practical application of game theory and a partial solution 

      Walsh, JE; Kelleher, GJ (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      Much effort has been devoted to development of game theory. However, nontrivial practical applications of discrete game theory are few. One reason may be difficulties in evaluating payoff matrices. Another reason may be ...

    • Regional analysis - Northern Ireland experience 

      Simpson, JV (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      Since 1936 Northern Ireland, has had a higher unemployment rate than any other region of the United Kingdom. For the period 1927-1936, unemployment was proportionately higher in Wales and in 1932 it was higher in Scotland. ...

    • Testing for uniformity of fit in regression - econometric case study 

      Pratschk, JL (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      It is frequently necessary to test regression results for uniformity of fit - i.e. to test the randomness of the distribution of the error terms. Such a test is necessary because an indication of a systematic trend in the ...

    • Social function of physical violence in an Irish urban area 

      O' Neill, C (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      This article is part of a study of the factors rendering people vulnerable to unemployment. While initially there was no intention of including violence within the scope of the survey, its prevalence necessitated that some ...

    • Regional problem in Ireland - some reflections upon development strategy 

      O' Farrell, PN (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      The current intense level of interest in regional development problems makes this an appropriate time to review certain aspects of Irish government strategy. The urgency of an appraisal is underlined by the fact that Irish ...