Browsing Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969- by Title

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    • Competition and control at work - rural miners and the labor process 

      Curtin, Chris; Shields, Dan (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1988)
      For most of its short working life, the raining development at Tynagh, Co. Galway was characterised by `good? industrial relations. In explaining this phenomenon the authors of this paper suggest that while the structure ...

    • Competition in Primary Healthcare in Ireland: More and Better Services for Less Money 

      Boate, Carol (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)
      Understanding precisely the nature of competition in primary healthcare has an important role to play in understanding how to improve the delivery of healthcare services. This is particularly the case in Ireland, where the ...

    • Competition policy and employment: an application to Ireland 

      Fingleton, John (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1993)
      This paper models an open economy with a competitive traded sector and a monopolistic non-traded sector. Competition policy in the non-traded sector can reduce the price of traded goods and increase welfare but only if the ...

    • Competitive 2-person percentile game theory with direct consideration of payoff matrices 

      Kelleher, GJ (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)
      Considered is the cases of two persons who have finite numbers of strategies and who act competitively toward each other. Separately and independently, each player selects one of his strategies. The payoffs to a player for ...

    • Components of growth in current public-expenditure on education and health 

      Ohagan, J; Kelly, M (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1984)
      Abstract: This paper examines the growth in the GDP share of current public expenditure on national, vocational and university education in Ireland between 1961 and 1979 in terms of four factors: transfer changes, demographic ...

    • Components of growth of income-maintenance expenditure in ireland 1951-1979 

      Maguire, M (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1984)
      Abstract: This paper examines the growth in the share of GDP of four income maintenance programmes(old age pensions, children's allowances, unemployment benefits and sickness cash benefits) for the period 1951-1979 in terms ...

    • Concentration in manufacturing sector of Republic of Ireland 

      Hutchinson, R.W. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)
      In this paper, the levels and changes in the levels of concentration in Irish manufacturing industries between 1958 and 1968 are examined. With the small size of Irish industry it is to be expected that the manufacturing ...

    • Conceptualising "the information society" 

      Bannon, Liam (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1997)
      The concept of "the information society" as an important new phenomenon has recently received much attention at a European and national level. Exhortations on the need for advance preparation for this society by all the ...

    • Conservatives, liberals and pragmatists: disaggregating the results of the Irish abortion referendums of 1992 

      Sinnott, Richard; Walsh, Brendan M.; Whelan, Brendan J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 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 ...

    • Continuity and change in Irish electoral politics, 1923-1969 

      Garvin, Tom (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)
      The purpose of this study is to examine certain long-term trends in Irish parliamentary representation since the founding of the State to indicate certain interrelationships between the trends suggestsome explanations for ...

    • Contraception and the Celtic Tiger 

      Bloom, David E.; Canning, David (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)
      New cross-country evidence for 1965 to 1995 is presented on the link that runs from population change to economic growth. The estimates indicate that demographic change is a powerful determinant of income growth, operating ...

    • Cost efficiency in UK and Irish credit institutions 

      Fitzpatrick, Trevor; McQuinn, Kieran (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)
      This paper presents aggregated cost efficiency scores for a balanced panel of British and Irish credit institutions and relates these scores to loan loss reserves as a first step in investigating their usefulness as possible ...

    • Cost of capital to Irish industry 

      Geary, P.T.; Walsh, B.M.; Copeland, J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)
      This study reviews the theoretical background to recent discussions of the measurement of the cost of capital. Particular attention is paid to the correct specification of tax variables (including depreciation, allowances, ...

    • Cost of capital to Irish industry - revised estimates 

      Geary, Patrick T.; McDonnell, Edward (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      Cost of capital indices, based on those of Geary, Walsh and Copeland (1975), are revised and updated to 1975. The revisions involve the use of different series for the price of new capital goods and the borrowing rate of ...

    • Costs of exchange rate volatility for labour markets: empirical evidence from the CEE economies 

      Belke, Ansgar; Setzer, Ralph (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)
      According to the traditional `optimum currency area? approach, little will be lost from a very hard peg to a currency union if there is little reason for using the exchange rate in response to economic shocks. This paper ...

    • COUNCIL MEMBERS' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2019 

      ESS (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2020)
      COUNCIL MEMBERS' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2019

    • COUNCIL MEMBERS' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021 

      ESS (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2021)
      COUNCIL MEMBERS' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021

    • Crowding out effects of government spending 

      Barry, Frank; Devereux, Michael B. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
      This paper surveys the recent theoretical literature on the linkage between government spending and the real economy. Two broad frameworks are explored. Nee-Keynesian models deal with economies characterised by wage or ...

    • "Crowding out effects of government spending": a comment 

      Fagan, Gabriel; Barry, Frank; Devereux, Michael B. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
      This paper presents a review of the current state of macroeconomic theory concerning the impact of Government spending on economic activity. The models presented reflect the current approach in theoretical analysis of ...

    • Cultural variable in friendship and group formation 

      Bennett, Don (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      Among the factors influencing social life, national cultural tendencies rarely appear in social research or analysis. In discussing the variables influencing comparative tendencies of populations to form primary groups and ...