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    • Theoretical approach to investment-wage 

      Muller, F (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      Since the early fifties the investment-wage has been discussed in Germany as an instrument of incomes policies. After World War I I the shift in the distribution of income and the accumulation of wealth in favour of the ...

    • Identification of individual aberrations in least squares regression 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      In single equation LS regression the common practice is. to test goodness-of- fit by the standard error o f estimate s and probable absence, of residual autoregression by the Durbin-Watson d, or the more recent count Of ...

    • Note of incomes in designated areas, 1960 and 1965 

      Ross, M (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      Recently in response to a request from the EEC, incomes were estimated separately for the designated areas and the remainder of the country for i960 and 1965. The results are presented here to make them available to other ...

    • Factor analysis and cluster analysis - their value and stability in social survey research 

      Raven, J; Ritchie, J (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      The object of this paper is to present the results of some methodological work carried out in the Government Social Survey Department in the course of a number of surveys connected with education. Most of the work was ...

    • Regional growth and income patterns, 1960-65 

      Martin, JP (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      This study owes its origins to the earlier research of Ross and Baker into regional income and employment patterns in Ireland and to the appearance of the Buchanan Report in 1969. These works have laid much of the groundwork ...

    • First employment, social status and mobility in Dublin 

      Hutchins, B (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      It is widely believed that a young man entering the labour market for the first time may, if he wishes, take any job open to him, of whatever social status or degree of skill, confident that this will not affect significantly ...

    • Price-change calculations based on 3 forms of input-output model - illustration from estimates of impact of equal pay on Irish industry 

      Henry, EW; Walsh, BM (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      The official Input-Output (I-O) Tables for 1964 provide us with a 17 sector model in Appendix Tables A1, A2 and A3. In this version of the model, similar imports are distributed along the rows of the transactions matrix ...

    • Dail deputies - 1969 generation 

      Farrell, B. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1971)
      As the Eighteenth Dail's life drew to a close, a major change in Irish political life was anticipated. The expectations were not confined to the national mass media, although the subsequent results tempted some politicians ...

    • Substituting means for missing observations in regression 

      Conniffe, D. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1978)
      This note examines why the simple method of substituting means seems to give good results in certain circumstances. The objective is not to promote this simple approach instead of more sophisticated methods - no one has ...

    • Single transferable vote and the Irish general election of 1977 

      Mair, Peter; Maguire, Maria (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1978)
      In an STV contest, too many names on a ballot paper can confuse voters and compound vote leakage (Mair and Laver, 1975), and we can assume that this did happen in the case of the Coalition. Whereas Fianna Fail nominated ...

    • Social areas in Dublin 

      Hourihan, Kevin (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1978)
      The primary purpose of the paper is not to examine Dublin's factorial ecology (even with different variables and methods), but rather to identify social areas in the city and examine their interrelationships and implications. ...

    • Quantitative analysis of degree of integration between the Irish and U.K. financial markets 

      Browne, Francis X.; O'Connell, Thomas (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1978)
      In this paper, we investigate the quantitative relationship between Irish and U.K. interest rates. With varying degrees of emphasis, it is frequently stated that Irish interest rates mirror U.K. rates and can be treated, ...

    • Interpretations of the Northern Ireland problem - appraisal 

      Whyte, John (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1978)
      The most useful contribution to be made at this point, then, seems to lie not in adding to the innumerable theories in the field, but rather in assessing those theories already proposed. This paper is an attempt to fulfil ...

    • Some evidence on validity of survey results 

      Whelan, B.J.; O Muircheartaigh, C.A. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1978)
      Data from sample surveys are subject to many sources of error. The most commonly discussed of these are sampling errors i.e., errors in the estimates which arise as a result of not including the whole population in the ...

    • Demand for money function in Ireland - estimation and stability 

      Browne, Francis X.; O'Connell, Thomas (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1978)
      In this paper we specify and estimate a demand for money function for Ireland. This function is then submitted to a stability test using a recently developed technique. The issue of the stability of the demand for money ...

    • Bi-confessionalism in a confessional party system - the Northern Ireland alliance party 

      McAllister, Ian; Wilson, Brian (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1978)
      In a comparative context a bi-polar conflict is rare, especially when it takes the form of a conflict between two intractably opposed and self-sufficient communities ranged around a single, all-pervasive, cleavage. As ...

    • Towards an aggregate production function for Irish agriculture 

      O'Rourke, A.Desmond (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1978)
      Much research effort has been expended in other countries in generating measures of the aggregate production function for the agricultural sector as a means of examining technological relationships between inputs and ...

    • Import dependence of the Irish economy during decade of '60s 

      Farley, Noel J.J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1978)
      Was there a movement to growing import dependence in the Irish economy during the 1960s? Why? These are the central questions for which answers will be sought in this paper. Various measures of import dependence will be ...

    • Expenditure patterns and welfare effects of inflation - estimates of a true cost-of-living index 

      Irvine, Ian; McCarthy, Colm (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1978)
      Inflation can have two principal kinds of redistributive effects. Even when relative prices are constant, the position of creditors worsens vis-a-vis that of debtors, unless the inflation is perfectly anticipated. If ...

    • Some effects of North Sea oil on Irish economy 

      Honohan, Patrick (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1978)
      It wis argued here that the formulation of policies, whether of the private or public sector, based on the assumption that the Irish inflation rate will be (and can safely be) close to that in the U.K. are likely to prove ...