Economic and Social Review: Recent submissions
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Logistic transformation of the budget share in Engel curves and demand functions
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)Models relating the budget share of a commodity to (the logarithms) of income and prices are popular in the analysis of household budget survey data and of time series data on commodity expenditures. This paper shows that ... -
Psychosocial factors associated with psychological problems in Irish children and their mothers
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1994)This study examined behaviour problems, IQ and reading attainment in 2,029 ten year olds. Twenty per cent of the boys and 11 per cent of the girls were found to have behaviour problems. Disadvantaged children were more ... -
Tourism and development in Ballyhoura: Women's business?
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1995)Tourism and other kinds of local development have become important elements in generating employment in rural Ireland. Yet, despite a commitment to local participation and to gender auditing, women are typically under-represented ... -
Theoretical foundations of the "Geary Method" for international comparisons of purchasing power and real incomes
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1996)This paper provides a centenary review of the method of calculating real incomes and purchasing power parities proposed by Roy Geary. This method is the most widely used in major international comparisons, but it is often ... -
The nature of migration between Northern Ireland and Great Britain: a preliminary analysis based on the labour force surveys, 1986-88
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1992)This paper takes a preliminary look at a disaggregate data source not previously used in the analysis of Northern Ireland migration patterns. Official Northern Ireland migration data are published in the form of aggregate ... -
Does a monetary union require international fiscal policy co-ordination?
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1991)In the debate over the set up of a single European currency, one of the principal areas of concern has been the implication of a single currency for the behaviour of sovereign fiscal authorities, and the possible need to ... -
Book review: Garret Fitzgerald: all in a life: an autobiography / by Michael Gallagher. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1991.
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Perinatal mortality and low birthweight by socio-economic background: evidence for Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1994)Newly-available data from the perinatal reporting system are used to examine the variation across socio-economic groups in perinatal mortality and low birthweight rates in Ireland. The results show significant effects of ... -
Devaluation expectations for the IR#/DM in the EMS: some empirical estimates and their relation to fundamentals
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1995)This paper presents results for devaluation expectations for the IR#/DM for the period of EMS membership. The methodology employed produces estimates of expected rates of devaluation by adjusting the interest rate ... -
Reiers?l, Geary and the idea of instrumental variables
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)In the 1940s the method of instrumental variables was introduced for use in the Errors in Variables Model. According to ReierS0I, the "idea of using instrumental variables" was introduced independently by himself in 1941 ... -
Brokerage or friendship? politics and networks in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1992)Studies of Irish politics have often emphasised clientelist relations between voters and politicians. A survey carried out in the 1970s indicates that the importance of politicians has been overstated. A significant ... -
Child sexual abuse in the Eastern Health Board region of Ireland in 1988: an analysis of 512 confirmed cases
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1991)This paper reports some of the findings of a study of child sexual abuse in the Eastern Health Board region of Ireland. Data were supplied by Community Care Social Workers on all cases (990) known to them in 1988. By year ... -
Book review: The growth illusion / by Richard Douthwaite. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1992."
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Adjusting from war to peace in 1940s Britain
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)Most assessments of British economic policy in the transition from war to peace after 1945 praise the strategy adopted. This paper draws on recent growth theory and analysis of eastern European liberalisation to argue ... -
"Social consensus and incomes policy": a comment
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1992)Most people are conditioned to believe that centralised pay deals are a good thing. They have names that stress harmony and consensus from National Understandings to Programmes for Economic and Social Progress. They are ... -
Social consensus and incomes policy
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1992)This paper argues that centralised bargaining as practised in Ireland added to wage inflationary pressure as: the focus of centralised bargaining was the preservation of good industrial relations; the process of wage ... -
The optimum level of reserves in an exchange rate target zone
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)The target zone exchange rate literature, initiated by Krugman (1991), has relevance for the question of what is the optimal level of reserves. In particular, Krugman and Rotemberg (1990) show that there is a well defmed ... -
Female labour supply in farm households: farm and off-farm participation
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)Many Irish women in farm households have an input into the running of the farm; while a much smaller proportion are engaged in off-farm employment. Using cross-section household data, we analyse various models in which ... -
Can we infer external effects from a study of the Irish indirect tax system?
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1992)This paper estimates implied external effects for the Irish indirect tax system for the year 1987. The study uses the inverse optimum technique of Christiansen and Jansen (1978) which estimates implied external effects, ... -
Testing the permanent income hypothesis: the Irish evidence
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1995)We investigate whether the permanent income hypothesis (PIH) is consistent with Irish data and find that it holds for about 50 per cent of consumers. We hypothesise that worsening borrowing conditions lead agents to consume ...
