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    • Empirical study of age structure of irish population 

      Walsh, B (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
      The economic and social consequences of a population's age structure are far-reaching. The proportion of a country's population in the active age groups largely determines the relationship between productivity per worker ...

    • 3rd sinn fein party - 1923-1926 

      Pyne, P (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
      The Republican party that was organized under the name 'Sinn Fein' after the end of the civil war, while initially relatively successful, failed to obtain the majority support essential, not only for the implementation of ...

    • Productivity, earnings and composition of labour - irish-manufacturing-industries, 1953-1966 

      Kennedy, Kieran A.; Dowling, Brendan R. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
      In a paper read recently to the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society oflreland by one of the present authors,1 differences in the growth of labour productivity in Irish manufacturing industries over the period 1953 to ...

    • Survey of some delinquent boys in an irish-industrial-school and reformatory 

      Hart, I (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
      The research aimed at discovering specific social and psychological characteristics of institutionalized delinquent boys in the Irish Republic. Various researchers had considered separate aspects of juvenile delinquency ...

    • Status inequalities within families in relation to their structural differences 

      Hannan, D (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
      The nuclear family, not the individual, is regarded as the basic unit of social stratification systems: a nuclear family being usually defined as a man and wife, with their dependent children, sharing a common domicile. ...

    • Changing regional pattern in ireland 

      Baker, T; Ross, M (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
      Draw a line down the Shannon, bend and extend it to the north east to include Longford and the Ulster counties, add Kerry and perhaps West Cork, and one obtains the traditional dividing line of Ireland. 'The West', the ...

    • Note on smoking among dublin school children 

      Wilson, K (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1969)
      In 1967, although half the adult population of the Irish Republic were known to be smokers,2 there was little information on the prevalence of smoking among children, the numbers of regular smokers, the numbers who tried ...

    • Price elasticity of demand for tobacco in ireland 

      Oriordan, Wk (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1969)
      This short study is an attempt to estimate the price elasticity of demand for tobacco in Ireland. Tobacco was chosen, partly because of its importance as a source of tax revenue, and partly because of certain simplifying ...

    • Regional study of relative prosperity of irish farms of different sizes 

      Ross, M (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1969)
      In the course o f a study o f regional allocation in Irish agriculture it became necessary to attempt to estimate regional incomes by farm size for the base year of the study, 1960. The results afforded a considerable ...

    • Establishing of irish pound - backward glance 

      Pratschke, Jl (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 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 ...

    • 3rd-sinn fein party - 1923-1926 

      Pyne, P (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1969)
      The recent commemoration of the fiftieth anniversaries of the Easter Rising and the meeting o f the First Dail firearm have done much to focus attention on this stormy watershed of modern Irish history and politics. The ...

    • Science of econometrics any use for short-term forecasting - enquiry based mainly on irish educational statistics 1947-1967 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1969)
      As his title indicates, the writer, wisely or unwisely, proposes to hang a very general and important question on the highly specialized inquiry with which this paper mainly deals: in fact to make a prima facie case for a ...

    • Denial, polarization and massacre - a comparative-analysis of Northern Ireland and Zanzibar 

      Thompson, J.L.P. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)
      The Zanzibar Revolution of l964 and the Northern Ireland conflict since 1968 are compared. They are similar in their polarisation processes, but differ in the level of killing, which is much higher in Zanzibar. Northern ...

    • Inflation, taxation, capital-markets and the demand for housing in Ireland 

      Irvine, Ian (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)
      The objective of this paper is to examine the effect of inflation on the quantity of housing demanded where mortgage interest payments are tax deductable and where capital markets set a limit upon the amount which can be ...

    • Education of farm children 

      Conway, A.G.; O'Hara, P. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)
      In this paper we examined educational participation by farm children, from two small areas in the West of Ireland. There has been a dramatic increase in participation, especially since the introduction of free post-primary ...

    • The sociodemographic spatial structure of Dublin in 1981 

      Brady, J.E.; Parker, A.J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)
      The small area statistics of the 1981 Census of Population are analysed with a view to identifying the spatial patterns associated with the socio-demographic structure of Dublin. Factors identify the Socio-Economic Status ...

    • Unemployment and religion in Northern Ireland 

      Osborne, R.D.; Cormack, R.J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)
      This paper examines recent data on the employment status of Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. In particular, the 1981 Population Census and the new Continuous Household Survey are used to compare rates of ...

    • Ireland - politics with some social bases - an interpretation based on survey data 

      Laver, Michael (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)
      Following on from the analysis of aggregate data on party choice in Ireland published in the last issue, this paper reports a re-analysis of a ten-year series of commercial opinion polls. The small sample sizes of the ...

    • Irish inflation in EMS 

      Honohan, Patrick; Flynn, John (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)
      This paper outlines the interaction of Irish prices and wages, and highlights the crucial importance of foreign price movements in determining inflation in Ireland. The discussion is based on quarterly empirical estimates ...

    • Profitability, investment and employment - a survey of recent developments in medium-term growth theory 

      Barry, Frank G. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)
      This paper reviews the recent theoretical literature on the relationship between profitability, investment and employment in an attempt to clarify the roles of demand-management, supply-management and incomes policies in ...