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    • The urban sociology of castells,manuel - a critical-examination of the central concepts 

      Mckeown, K (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)
      The writings of Manuel Castells are centrally concerned with the development of a Marxist urban sociology. This article provides a critical examination of the central concepts of these writings. The article begins with ...

    • Dimensions of irish students religiosity 

      Inglis, TF (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)
      This paper attempts to identify the dimensions of religiosity for Catholic university students in Ireland through survey data obtained in 1976. Glock and Stark's (1965 and 1968) dimensions of religiosity are reformulated ...

    • Macroeconomic policy in a small open-economy under flexible exchange-rates with bond financing of government deficits 

      Murray, S (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)
      This paper presents a dynamic macroeconomic model of a small open economy (SOE) under flexible exchange rates in which the government offsets its budget imbalances by sales or purchases of its own bonds, the dynamics arising ...

    • On conditions for dynamic stability in discrete specifications of a monetary model 

      Peel, DA (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)
      The purpose of this paper is to examine the stability conditions obtained in some discrete specifications of a continuous time macroeconomic model in which the rate of inflation and the level of output are linked via an ...

    • Electoral systems and political manipulation - a case-study of northern-ireland in the 1920s 

      Pringle, DG (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)
      Three general elections were held for the Northern Ireland Parliament during the 1920s. The 1921 and 1925 elections were contested using proportional representation, whereas the 1929 elections used the "first-past-the-post ...

    • Foreign direct-investment in ireland - empirical-evidence and theoretical implications 

      Oloughlin, b; ofarrell, pn; O'Farrell, PN (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)
      This paper summarises the existing literature on foreign direct investment and the multinational enterprise with emphasis on those aspects which are particularly relevant to Ireland. Empirical analysis of data on new ...

    • Health-education and the demand for tobacco in ireland, 1953-76 - note 

      Walsh, BM (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)
      THE publication of the report by the Royal College of Physicians in 1962 linking cigarette smoking and lung cancer led throughout the western world to mounting pressure to curb the smoking habit. In Ireland the cancer scare ...

    • What went wrong with irelands recent post-censal population estimates 

      Hughes, JG (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)
      The preliminary results of the 1979 Census (Ireland, 1979) indicated that the population was nearly 3.0 per cent greater than had been expected on the basis of the annual estimates of the population which were issued by ...

    • Inefficiency in irish agriculture 

      Leddin, A (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)
      The purpose of this paper is to compare the relative efficiency of two similar groups of farms in Irish agriculture. Using a restricted profit function to measure economic efficiency and both of its components, price ...

    • Notes on the behavior of prices 

      Woods, JE (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)
      We discuss the behaviour of prices in an n-sector, circulating capital model with no joint production, of the type considered by Sraffa in Part I of his book. Instead of following Sraffa's approach, which uses the notion ...

    • Rotterdam system and irish models of consumer demand 

      Conniffe, D.; Hegarty, A. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)
      The form of Rotterdam (ROS) model previously applied to Irish data did not impose all the constraints on parameters suggested by Demand Theory. In this paper a method of estimating the ROS, subject to symmetry and negativity, ...

    • Optimal labor subsidies and industrial-development in ireland 

      Ruane, F (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)
      This paper calculates the employment subsidies implicit in the principal financial incentives provided by the Irish Government to foster industrial employment. These subsidies are compared with estimates of optimal employment ...

    • Wages, sex-discrimination and the Irish labor-market for young workers 

      Reilly, Barry (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1987)
      Human capital wage equations are estimated using individual level data on single males and single females in the Irish labour market for young workers. The results are broadly consonant with theoretical predictions. Returns ...

    • The relevance of a beta-book for Irish equities 

      McKillop, D.G.; Hutchinson, RW (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1987)
      This paper investigates the role of Beta coefficients in determining rates of return on equities traded in the Irish stock market. It concludes that a `Beta Book? would be inappropriate in this case due to institutional ...

    • Property cycles in Dublin - the anatomy of boom and slump in the industrial and office property sectors 

      MacLaran, Andrew; MacLaran, Morag; Malone, Patrick (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1987)
      The property development process is the means by which built space is created to accommodate the variety of urban functions. The paper examines the existence of boom-slump cycles in the industrial and office property ...

    • Estimating and testing CES production-functions on Irish 12-sector input-output data 

      Henry, E.W. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1987)
      Irish input-output data are used to estimate and test CES production functions for each of 12 sectors having 2 groups of input costs. The objective is to generalise input-output analysis to allow for price effects and ...

    • Meenan, James - an appreciation 

      Anonymous (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1987)
      Professor James Meenan, who died in Dublin on 25th May 1987 was born on 18th October 1910, the eldest son of Dr James N . Meenan who was a Professor of the faculty of Medicine at University College, Dublin. He was educated ...

    • Bishops and bailiwicks - obstacles to women's political-participation in Ireland 

      Randall, Vicky; Smyth, Ailbhe (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1987)
      Women are a small minority of political office-holders in Ireland as elsewhere. The authors first provide details of women's representation in different political arenas, before proceeding to identify the principal ...

    • Estimates of new foreign manufacturing employment in Ireland (1956-1972) 

      O'Hearn, Denis (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1987)
      The penetration of Irish manufacturing by transnational corporations (TNCs) has been one of the most important economic developments of the past thirty years. This article estimates the levels of employment in new TNCs for ...

    • More on actual versus hypothetical replacement ratios in Ireland 

      Nolan, Brian (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1987)
      Hypothetical replacement ratios, widely used in both cross-section and time-series analyses, have been subjected to considerable criticism in the UK. This paper focuses on the use of hypothetical benefits and replacement ...