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    • Spatial structure of agricultural output in Republic of Ireland 

      Gillmor, D.A. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      Mixed livestock production with some arable cropping is the description often taken as applying to the form of agriculture practised throughout Ireland, with little or no reference to the major regional variations in the ...

    • Issue differential - multidimensional technique for measuring components of attitudes towards social-issues 

      Davis, E.E. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      The Semantic Differential (SD) technique, developed by Osgood, Suci and Tannenbaum (1957) is perhaps one of the most widely used instruments for tapping attitudes or perceptions towards a variety of objects. This is attested ...

    • Sample design and evaluation for an occupational mobility study 

      O Muircheartaigh, C.A. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      The aim of this paper is to describe the design and evaluation of the sample for an occupational mobility study in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic undertaken by Jackson et al. (1973-74)1. The objective of the study ...

    • Educational attainment, occupational achievement and religion in Northern Ireland 

      Boyle, Joseph F. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      It has long been established that educational attainment is related to social background and that subsequent occupational achievement is dependent on educational attainment and on social background. In the case of Northern ...

    • Ricardian model and structure of Irish trade - comment 

      McGilvray, J.; Simpson, D. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)
      Our choice of a value rather than a physical measure of labour productivity was a conscious decision, not an 'error'. The reasons for this choice were clearly stated on pp. 451-452, footnote 2, o f the article. The weakness ...

    • Ricardian model and structure of Irish trade 

      Davies, R. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)
      In a recent article J. McGilvray and D. Simpson (1973) examined the commodity structure of trade between the Irish Republic and the United Kingdom in the light of international trade theory. Their investigation was partly ...

    • Distribution of personal wealth in Ireland - evidence reexamined - comment 

      Harrison, M.J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)
      The points made by Chesher and McMahon (hereafter CM) concerning thestatistical test procedure used by Harrison and Nolan (hereafter HN) in their 1975 paper are valid. Indeed, HN have been aware o f them for some time. It ...

    • Distribution of personal wealth in Ireland - evidence reexamined 

      Chesher, Andrew D.; McMahon, Patrick C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)
      In a recent article in this journal, Harrison and Nolan (1976) question the assumption made by Lyons (1975) that the estates of Irish adults dying in 1966 which were not examined by the Estate Duty Branch of the Revenue ...

    • Sociology of ethnicity and social-change - model of rootedness and rootlessness 

      Abramson, Harold J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)
      In the light of mounting interest in, and manifestations of, ethnicity in most of the world today, it becomes important to work on the broader meaning of ethnicity from the comparative, historical and theoretical perspectives. ...

    • Role of full-time union officer 

      Robertson, N.Sams, K.I. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)
      Many commentators on industrial relations postulate a more ambitious and elaborate role for the trade unions. Leading figures within the movement itself hold similar views. Such developments might be expected to place ...

    • Size and efficiency - case of Irish plastics industry 

      Ahmed, M. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)
      International evidence has suggested that plant or firm size does not significantly affect efficiency in the plastics processing industry; this has led to the generalisation that small firms can be economically viable in ...

    • Irish gombeenman - re-incarnation or rehabilitation 

      Gibbon, Peter; Higgins, M.D. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      Mr. Kennedy (1977) makes four main criticisms of our paper. These will be discussed in turn. In the process, we will be concerned not only to defend our original position, but, where possible, to correct and clarify it.

    • Efficiency and size - comments and extensions 

      Todd, D. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      A recent contribution to this Review considered a number of measures of business efficiency and applied these to a sample of firms in the Irish Plastics Industry. The purpose of this note is to extend the analysis somewhat ...

    • Analysis of small-scale entrepreneurs in Irish plastics industry 

      Ahmed, M. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      An often advanced case for modern small-scale enterprises runs in terms of their contribution to the development of entrepreneurship. Given that the Irish plastics industry is basically a small-scale activity (Ahmed, 1976) ...

    • Demand and supply functions for Irish exports of manufactures 

      O'Connell, T. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      In this paper, we specify and estimate some simple quarterly econometric models of Irish manufactured exports looking at the determinants of both the demand for, and the supply of, manufactured exports. The standard ...

    • Full-employment labor supply in ireland - 1954-1970 

      Slattery, D.G. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      In Ireland as in many other countries the attainment of full employment has become a central feature of government economic policy. In attempting to translate 'full employment' into quantitative terms it must be borne in ...

    • Some results on distribution of a statistic based on pareto and log-normal distributions and power of an associated test 

      Harrison, M.J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      In the October 1975 edition of this Review, Harrison and Nolan examine the 'residual wealth' assumption which Lyons (1972 and 1975) made when using the mortality multiplier method to estimate the distribution of personal ...

    • Sceptical view on reincarnation of Irish gombeenman 

      Kennedy, L. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      A study of the Irish 'gombeenman' (Gibbon and Higgins, 1974) is likely to claim the interest not only of social scientists but also of historians who have encountered prototypes and variants of some of the basic themes. ...

    • Estimates of a system of demand equations using alternative commodity classifications of Irish data, 1953-1974 

      McCarthy, C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      The estimation of price and income elasticities for broad commodity groups has attracted a sizeable amount of attention from Irish researchers in recent years. As well as a series of single commodity studies, both from ...

    • Influence of liquid assets and sectoral distribution of income on aggregate consumers behavior in Ireland 

      Kelleher, R. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      The purpose of this paper is to obtain a relationship that will explain movements in the ratio of consumers' expenditure to income. In recent years movements in this ratio have had important implications for the development ...