Economic and Social Review: Recent submissions
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The length of spells of unemployment in ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract- This paper examines the average length of a spell of unemployment in the Irish Republic. The analysis is conducted using two measures, one emphasising the flow of persons into unemployment and the other concentrating ... -
Unemployment duration, aggregate demand and unemployment-insurance - a study of irish live register survival probabilities, 1967-1978
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: Quarterly data on the duration of unemployment for males and females are used to derive measures of the probability of remaining on the live Register for another quarter for persons who have been on the register ... -
A study of replacement ratios among a sample of unemployed workers
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: This study reports the findings of an examination of the actual benefits to earnings (replacement) ratio experience among a sample of unemployed workers. Previous Irish studies in this area have been at the ... -
Symposium on unemployment and the labor-market in ireland - introduction
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)One of the most controversial issues in modern labour economics surrounds the attempt to establish the existence and magnitude of the effect of unemployment insurance on the level of measured unemployment. To some economists ... -
A preliminary econometric investigation of the irish housing-market, 1969-1976
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: Recent modelling developments in the housing economics literature are reviewed and drawn on to construct a national housing model for Ireland. The model is estimated on quarterly data over the' period 1969-1976. ... -
In-migration to irish cities and towns, 1970-71
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: Cities and towns played an important role in internal migration and immigration in Ireland in 1970-71. Gross migration rates were strongly related to estimates of the employment increases in the centres over the ... -
Birth under-registration in the republic-of-ireland during the 20th-century
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: The efficiency of birth registration in Ireland is investigated in this article by comparing the number of registered births with Census age-distributions in the period 1916-1971. It is argued that there was a ... -
Exchange-rates - real and monetary factors
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: In this paper we explore several alternative models of the exchange rate which highlight the role played by real and monetary factors in exchange rate determination, and the short-and long-run effects of exchange ... -
Social group homogamy in marriage in ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: The extent of homogamy in Irish marriages, using a relatively simple unitary indicator of status, namely social group, is examined here. Because of the limitations imposed by the data used ? national statistics ? ... -
The distribution and redistribution of income in the republic-of-ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: This study analyses the pattern of taxes paid and benefits received by a sample of households in 1973, classified both according to income range and to household composition. The study compares the distribution of ... -
A bayesian look at consumption
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: This paper assesses various possible explanations for savings behaviour in Ireland during the 1960s and 1970s. Attempts to discriminate between these rival hypotheses have been hampered by multicollinearity. This ... -
Scrounging in northern-ireland - the beginnings of an investigation
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: This is a report of a cross-sectional survey carried out in Antrim on the registered unemployed to test some aspects of the "scrounger" hypothesis. A brief literature review reveals a lack of empirical evidence on ... -
A note on a proposed census-based irish social-class scale for epidemiological health research
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: The social class/prestige scales currently used in Irish research are examained and considered unsuitable for epidemiological research as they are not census-based. The historical development of Socio-Economic ... -
Recent anglo-irish migration - the evidence of the british-labour-force surveys
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: This paper uses unpublished data from the British Labour Force Surveys of 1973, 1975 and 1977 to shed some light on recent Anglo-Irish Migration. The focus throughout is on the migration of Irish-born persons to ... -
Policy related attitude surveys - assumptions and significance
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: The article first considers a recent argument which rejects policy related attitude research on the grounds that it relies on four assumptions which are said to be untenable. In examining each of the assumptions ... -
The demand for labor and capital inputs in irish manufacturing-industries, 1953-1973
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: Factor-demand functions are estimated, for two types of labour (wage-earners and salaried-workers) and capital, for 40 manufacturing industries. Two sets of elasticity results are reported. The first set implicitly ... -
Urban-population density patterns and change in ireland, 1901-1979
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: There were major changes in the population geography of the three largest cities in the Republic of Ireland during the twentieth century. Population densities in inner city areas have declined rapidly and most ... -
The functional distribution of income in Irelands manufacturing sector, 1956-1973
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: The paper presents a new method for estimating the functional distribution of income for the Irish manufacturing sector. The estimates of distributive shares are based on a series for net value added in manufacturing, ... -
Response of irish creamery milk supply to price changes
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: This article investigates the responsiveness of creamery milk supply to changes in the price of milk relative to agricultural materials. A basic model, which includes milk and livestock price variables and a Gini ... -
Farm size and marital-status - county and provincial differences in arensberg and kimball ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: Recent debate concerning the validity of Arensberg and Kimball's ethnography has centred on the question of whether or not the rural west of Ireland demonstrated class stratification during the period of Arensberg ...
