Economic and Social Review: Recent submissions
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Economic integration and industrial agglomeration
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1994)This paper reviews recent research on industrial location, focusing on the way in which reducing barriers to trade may induce relocation of industry. Integration may cause industries to agglomerate in a few locations, this ... -
Geary on inference in multiple regression and on closeness and the Taxi problem
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)This paper deals with some minor aspects of Roy Geary's work. Two areas are selected for discussion ? (a) his work with Leser on "paradoxical" situations in multiple regression and (b) his work on estimation of the unknown ... -
Conservatives, liberals and pragmatists: disaggregating the results of the Irish abortion referendums of 1992
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1995)This paper examines the results of three referendums on abortion which were held in November 1992 relating to Travel, Information and the Substantive Issue. By solving a set of simultaneous equations, it shows that the ... -
Health insurance reform in the Netherlands: assessing the progressivity consequences
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1994)This paper examines the effects of the proposed Health Insurance Reform in The Netherlands on the incidence of the burden of health care finance. The focus of attention is on the measurement of the degree of progressivity ... -
Intra-industry trade and industrial adjustment: the Irish experience
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1995)This paper updates and extends previous studies of Irish intra-industry trade (IIT). The reported IIT proportions are calculated from the most comprehensive Irish trade data set used in this context to date, both in terms ... -
Determination of linear relations between systematic parts of variables with errors of observation the variances of which are unknown
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1996)Given a sufficient number of instrumental variables significantly correlated with the investigational variables, consistent estimates of the coefficients of the linear relations can be determined (if they exist), without ... -
Editorial preface
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1996)This special issue of the Review marks the centenary of the birth of Roy Geary ? Ireland's greatest statistician ? who was born in Drumcondra, Dublin on 11 April, 1896 and died on 8 February, 1983. It is the third occasion ... -
More about Geary and the "Taxi" problem
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1996)Geary's treatment of the "taxi" problem was recently re-examined by Spencer and Largey (1993). This paper investigates the topic further, partly to place Geary's estimator in the context of more general methods and also ... -
Estimation of the parameter in the discrete "Taxi" problem, with and without replacement
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1996)In the continuous uniform distribution [0,N], the Maximum Likelihood estimator of N is known to possess high mean square error for large samples. This paper examines this issue in the discrete case, without replacement ... -
The quality and pattern of intra-industry trade between the geographically proximate regions of Northern-Southern Ireland and Southern Ireland-Great Britain
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1996)This paper examines the quality and pattern of the intra-industry trade (IIT) between the geographically proximate regions of Ireland, as well as Southern Ireland and Great Britain in 1978 and 1992. Relative unit values ... -
Self-employment and intergenerational transfers of physical and human capital: an empirical analysis of French data
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1995)Using The 1991 French Household Survey of Financial Assets, we examine the determinants of self-employment using data on intergenerational transfers of wealth, education, informal human capital and a range of demographic ... -
Mapping disease risk estimates based on small numbers: an assessment of empirical Bayes techniques
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1996)Choropleth maps are frequently used to analyse spatial variations in the risk of a disease. In such maps the relative risk is typically quantified by dividing some measure of the number of cases of the disease by some ... -
Editorial
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1997)This special issue of The Economic and Social Review presents a selection of papers from the conference Ireland, Europe and the Global Information Society held in Dublin in Spring 1997. The background to this conference ... -
Estimating equations with information loss on at least one dependent variable
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1995)Efficient, or joint, estimation of a pair of linear equations with the same explanatory variables reduces to separate estimation of each equation. This is no longer the case if information has been lost on at least one ... -
Employment schemes in Ireland: an evaluation
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1990)The primary aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect which the following employment schemes (ES) had on the overall outflow rate and age-byduration outflow rates from unemployment in Ireland 1980(1)-1989(4): (a) Work ... -
A life cycle labour supply model with taxes estimated on German panel data: the case of parallel preferences
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)We estimate Frisch labour supply functions for married women using information on desired hours, under the assumptions that these are based on a smooth convex approximation of the budget constraint. The minimum distance ... -
Using the Synthetic Biproportional Projector for the measurement of structural change in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1994)This paper analyses changes in the industrial structure of Ireland between 1975 and 1985. Confining our analysis to the inter-industry matrix, we use the Synthetic Biproportional Project method, which has significant ... -
Education, religion and the "first destinations" of recent school-leavers in Northern Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1997)Data from a cross-section survey of recent school-leavers in Northern Ireland are used to examine the relationship between family and educational background and "first destinations" approximately 6 to 9 months after leaving ... -
Sustainable development and rural poverty in the Republic of Ireland : review artiicle
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1998)When one embarks upon a conversation about anything to do with rural Ireland, the most common perception one encounters is that farmers "are cleaning up" or "creaming off the system", that farmers are, for example, absorbing ... -
Interfering women: farm mothers and the reproduction of family farming
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1997)The continuance of family farming in Ireland is dependent on family formation and reproduction which are processes in which women are central actors. Family farming as a social form is organised around gender-based work ...
