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

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    • Dimensions of irish students religiosity 

      Inglis, TF (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 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 ...

    • Direct measures of time preference 

      Ventura, Luigi (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)
      This work constitutes an attempt to estimate time preference factors in a direct way from survey data, without relying on consumption data and on particular estimation techniques. By using microeconomic data obtained from ...

    • Disability and labour force participation in Ireland 

      Gannon, Brenda; Nolan, Brian (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      The extent and nature of participation in the labour market by persons affected by disability has a multitude of direct and indirect effects on their living standards and quality of life, and so is a critical area for ...

    • Discretion and cyclicality in Irish budgetary management 1969-2003 

      Hunt, Colin (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)
      This paper addresses the topic of cyclicality and discretion in Irish fiscal policy. In particular, we show that the level and nature of cyclicality varies across different expenditure components and we introduce a new ...

    • Distribution of personal wealth in Ireland - comment 

      Harrison, M.J.; Nolan, S. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)
      This paper focuses attention on two aspects of P.M.Lyons' work on the distribution of personal wealth in Ireland. First, using a statistical procedure devised from some well-known results, the validity of his assumption ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 Northern-Ireland 

      Lyons, PM (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)
      The economist shares an interest with the rest of mankind in wealth, the manner in which it is held, by persons in a state and its distribution among those persons. Current wealth is a measure both of past economic growth, ...

    • Distributional aspects of Ireland's fiscal adjustment 

      Callan, Tim; Nolan, Brian (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
      Conflicting claims about the distributional impact of Ireland's fiscal adjustment have been made. This paper clarifies the different implicit standards on which these may be based, and uses the limited available data on ...

    • "Distributional aspects of Ireland's fiscal adjustment": a comment 

      O'Hagan, John (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
      There is little, if anything, I can add to the fine paper by Tim Callan and Brian Nolan in the way of statistical data or direct comment. Their treatment of the topic has been comprehensive, impartial and professional. The ...

    • Do credit constraints affect SME investment and employment? 

      Gerlach-Kristen, Petra; O'Connell, Brian; O'Toole, Conor (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)
      This paper explores the potential presence of credit constraints confronting Irish SMEs and investigates the impact of these constraints on firms’ employment and investment. Using new survey data collected by the Department ...

    • Doctors? fees in Ireland following the change in reimbursement: did they jump? 

      Madden, David (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2007)
      This paper analyses the pure time-series properties of doctors? fees in Ireland to assess whether a structural change in the series is observed at the time of the change in reimbursement in 1989. Such a break would be ...

    • Does a monetary union require international fiscal policy co-ordination? 

      Devereux, Michael B. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 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 ...

    • Does Irish education approach the meritocratic ideal - a logistic analysis 

      Raftery, Adrian E.; Hout, Michael (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1985)
      The conclusion that the Irish educational system is approaching the meritocratic ideal that was advanced by Greaney and Kellaghan (1984) is re-examined using the same data but a different methodology. A logistic regression ...

    • Does outsourcing increase profitability? 

      Gorg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of outsourcing. The empirical analysis uses unique plant level data for the electronics sector in Ireland. ...

    • Does the stochastic specification of the linear expenditure system matter? 

      Conniffe, Denis; Eakins, John (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)
      When ?income? in a system of demand equations is defined as total expenditure, actual expenditure on any commodity must lie between zero and income, or equivalently, budget shares must lie between zero and one. But models ...

    • Dominant ideologies in Irish educational-thought - consensualism, essentialism and meritocratic individualism 

      Lynch, Kathleen (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1987)
      Through the analysis of the works of Irish (the analysis is confined to the Republic of Ireland) educationalists (over the last 30 years) three prominent ideological paradigms are evident in the literature. The first of ...

    • Dublin Jewish demography a century ago 

      O Grada, Cormac (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)
      This paper examines the demography of Ireland?s Jewish community a century ago. Its focus is on Dublin Jewry, then mainly a community of immigrants from the Tsarist Empire and their children. It compares the marital ...

    • Dynamic factor demands in a changing economy: an Irish application 

      McQuinn, Kieran (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)
      In this paper a model of dynamic factor demands is presented for the Irish economy. Total costs, labour and capital are modelled on a two-stage basis. First, a static, long-run cost function is specified which allows for ...

    • Dynamic hedging with the IFOX long gilt futures: new evidence 

      Kenneally, Martin; Cronin, David (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1994)
      This paper assesses the hedging effectiveness of the IFOX long gilt futures contract. The paper builds on earlier work by Hogan which was hindered by small sample size, thin trading and incomplete specification of the data ...