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    • Accuracy of demand estimators 

      O'Riordan, W.K. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1978)
      Information about price and income elasticities of demand is not without interest for economists and policymakers. At the moment, there are many methods of estimating these elasticities but the estimates given by the various ...

    • Irish pay personal income tax system 

      Norton, Desmond; O'Donnell, Rory (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1978)
      This paper describes part of the Personal Income Tax system in the context of work in progress on a model of the Irish economy. The model is a short-run one designed to quantify the effects of fiscal policy on the major ...

    • Regional aspects of the problem of restructuring use and ownership of agricultural land in the Republic of Ireland 

      O'Carroll, J.P.; Passchier, N.P.; Van der Wusten, H.H. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1978)
      This paper is an attempt to identify regional delineations which are relevant for the problem of restructuring the use and ownership of agricultural land in the Republic of Ireland. The social scientist's interest in ...

    • Irish consumer expectations and the adaptive expectations model 

      Conniffe, D.; Killen, L. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1977)
      Dynamic economic models frequently require some hypothesis about expectations of future values of economic variables. Price expectations have received particular attention but expectations also arise in other contexts. The ...

    • Labour and the Irish party system revisited - party competition in the 1920s 

      Mair, Peter (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1977)
      In the 1969 General Election the Labour Party received more votes than at any other time in its electoral history. Nevertheless, despite this success, Labour continues to be one of the smallest social democratic parties ...

    • Randomization and Von Neumann function - variance formula and a problem 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1977)
      A difficulty with randomisation treatment was expressed as follows: `The problem is to determine if there is a contiguity effect, i.e. if c (the contiguity ratio) has a significantly low value after the elimination of q ...

    • Study of factor structure of attitudinal measures of major social psychological constructs in an Irish sample 

      Davis, E.E.; Fine Davis, Margaret; Breathnach, Agnes; Moran, Rosalyn (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1977)
      Within social psychology, the study of attitudes has been a central concern since the first quarter of this century. In fact, some early theorists (e.g. Thomas and Znaniecki, 1918 and Watson, 1925) regarded attitude as so ...

    • Input-output approach to cost-benefit-analysis of energy conservation methods 

      Henry, E.W. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1977)
      In this paper is proposed a method of using Input-Output (I-O) techniques for cost-benefit (G-B) analysis, in order to compare one method of conserving energy with another. Only energy conservation will be considered, ...

    • Extensions to a quantitative analysis of the degree of integration between Irish and UK financial markets 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1979)
      In a recent issue of this Review, Browne and O'Connell (1978) find a close relationship between the Irish and the UK interest rates simultaneous in time with the magnitudes of the UK fluctuation "completely transmitted ...

    • Regional development and spatial equity in Northern Ireland 

      Goodyear, P.M.; Eastwood, D.A. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1979)
      The paper examines Northern Ireland's `regional strategy? programme, assessing its successes and failures in reducing spatial inequalities in overall social well-being throughout the province. Social well-being is calculated ...

    • Psychological disturbance in Ireland, in England and in Irish emigrants to England - comparative study 

      Cochrane, Raymond; Stopes-Roe, Mary (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1979)
      A community survey involving 200 Irish emigrants to England, 200 natives of England and 200 residents of the Republic of Ireland was conducted to test a number of hypotheses drawn from mental hospital admission statistics. ...

    • Cost of capital to Irish industry - revised estimates 

      Geary, Patrick T.; McDonnell, Edward (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1979)
      Cost of capital indices, based on those of Geary, Walsh and Copeland (1975), are revised and updated to 1975. The revisions involve the use of different series for the price of new capital goods and the borrowing rate of ...

    • Information theoretic approach to measurement of spatial inequality 

      Walsh, J.A.; O'Kelly, M.E. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1979)
      In this paper we present some quantitative indices for measuring and comparing levels of inequality in discrete spatial distributions. The indices presented are based on the Kullback Information Measure which we consider ...

    • Unionist state and the outdoor relief riots of 1932 

      Bew, Paul; Norton, Christopher (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1979)
      This paper breaks with the monolithic conception of the Unionist State in the inter-war period. It argues that the State apparatuses were characterised by an intense populist/anti-populist division. It takes a significant ...

    • Non-wage costs, employment and hours of work in Irish manufacturing industry 

      Kirwan, F.X. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1979)
      This paper presents a recursive model of the short-run demand for workers and hours in Irish industry. On the assumption that employers minimise costs, the optimal employment/hours mix is shown to be a function of the ratio ...

    • Social definition in child-care in the Irish republic - models of the child and child-care intervention 

      O'Sullivan, Denis (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1979)
      This paper developed from a case study of an Irish child-care institution and considers some fundamental definitions in child care in the Irish Republic. Three main aspects are explored: the transition from a social risk ...

    • Protectionism and product harmonization in the EEC 

      McCarthy, John (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1979)
      This work examines resistance to the harmonisation of performance, safety, and labeling criteria within the EEC. A theoretical treatment of possible protective and non-protective reasons for the delays encountered in ...

    • Inflation and consumption in Ireland 

      Honohan, Patrick (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1979)
      In inflationary times, consumers have limited, mainly out-of-date, information on the general level of prices. Consequently, when the general rate of inflation accelerates unexpectedly, consumers tend to mistakenly regard ...

    • Ransam - random sample design for Ireland 

      Whelan, Brendan J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1979)
      The purpose of this paper is to describe RANSAM , the computer-based system for drawing random samples from the Electoral Register, which has been developed over the past few years at ESRI. This system, which is updated ...

    • Unmarried mothers - comparative study 

      Kirke, Deirdre (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1979)
      This study was designed to identify factors which might be associated with unmarried motherhood in Ireland. One hundred unmarried mothers and a control group of the same number of married mothers were interviewed by the ...