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

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    • Educational developmentalists divided? Patrick Cannon, Patrick Hillery and the economics of education in the early 1960s 

      Murray, Peter (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)
      The catalytic effect of the OECD-linked study that produced Investment in Education is a much celebrated episode of Ireland?s modernisation. A remarkably broad cross-departmental consensus supported the initiative. ...

    • Educational inequalities among school leavers in Ireland 1979-1994 

      Smyth, Emer (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)
      The extent to which inequalities in educational outcomes persist in modern Ireland has been the subject of much debate. This paper investigates whether the rapid expansion in educational participation rates over the 1980s ...

    • Effect of income growth and changes in tax rate on consumption and saving ratios 

      Dowling, Brendan R. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)
      The purpose of this note is to suggest that income growth and changes inthe tax rate affect the observed ratio of savings or consumption to personal disposable income. This is because of the lag in tax payments - which are ...

    • Efficiency and size - comments and extensions 

      Todd, D. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      A recent contribution to this Review considered a number of measures of business efficiency and applied these to a sample of firms in the Irish Plastics Industry. The purpose of this note is to extend the analysis somewhat ...

    • Efficiency in Northern Ireland hospitals: a non-parametric analysis 

      McKillop, Donal G.; Glass, J. Colin; Kerr, Christine A.; McCallion, Gillian (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)
      The study examines the technical, scale and size efficiency of acute hospitals in Northern Ireland over the six-year period, 1986-1992. The efficiency estimates are used to investigate whether the empirical evidence supports ...

    • Efficiency in the forward exchange market - an application of co-integration - a comment 

      Leddin, A (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      In a recent edition of the Review, Lucey (1988) finds evidence of forward exchange market inefficiency using the co-integration technique. His results relate to sterling and the dollar and are based on daily spot and one ...

    • Efficiency in the forward exchange market - an application of co-integration - reply 

      Lucey, BM (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      In this issue of the Economic and Social Review, Leddin comments on my recent (1988) paper which examined co-integration as a technique for analysing the efficiency of the forward exchange market. This paper addresses a ...

    • Efficiency in the forward exchange market - an application of cointegration 

      Lucey, BM (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1988)

    • Efficiency of taking first differences in regression analysis - note 

      Tillman, JA (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)
      In a recent article, Geary [1972] discussed the merit of taking first differences to deal with the problems that trends in data present in regression analysis. Geary gave examples of situations where this procedure leads ...

    • Elasticity of demand for petrol in Ireland 

      O"Riordan, WK (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)
      This brief study attempts to estimate the price elasticity of demand for petrol in Ireland at the present time. The statistic is not without importance. Alcohol, tobacco and petrol are the three main sources of indirect ...

    • Elasticity of demand for petrol in Ireland - comment 

      Arthur, W. Brian (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)
      In an article in this journal (April 1972) W . K. O'Riordan estimated the price elasticity of petrol to be between minus 1.2 and minus 1.7. These values are surprisingly high. Petrol is expensive but the other major expenses ...

    • Elasticity of demand for petrol in Ireland - reply 

      O'Riordan, WK (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)
      I thank Dr. Arthur for his interesting and thoughtful comment. I am afraid that he rather misquotes me when he says that I estimated the elasticity as being between -1.2 and -1-7. My interpretation (stated in the conclusions) ...

    • Elections and macroeconomic outcomes in Ireland, 1948-91 

      Annett, Anthony M. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1993)
      This paper tests the main politico-economic theories of the relationships between elections and macroeconomic outcomes using Irish data over the period 1948-91. The results suggest that Fianna Fail governments have been ...

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

      Pringle, DG (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 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 ...

    • Eliciting preferences for resource allocation in health care 

      O'Shea, Eamon; Stewart, Jennifer; Donaldson, Cam; Shackley, Phil (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2001)
      Willingness-to-pay (WTP) studies are increasingly being used in the evaluation of health care programmes and, although less frequently, for priority setting in health care. The usefulness of willingness-to-pay as a ...

    • Empirical classifications of types among delinquent referrals to a child guidance clinic 

      Hart, I; McQuaid, P (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)
      A major difficulty in formulating treatment programmes for juvenile offenders is the multiplicity of causes and circumstances of anti-social behaviour. This study uses factor and cluster analysis to search for syndromes ...

    • Empirical study of age structure of irish population 

      Walsh, B (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)
      The economic and social consequences of a population's age structure are far-reaching. The proportion of a country's population in the active age groups largely determines the relationship between productivity per worker ...

    • Employers social insurance contributions and employment 

      Fagan, G.; Murphy, A. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)
      Holmlund (1981) presents a simple model of the incidence of employers' social insurance contributions. Hughes (1985) applies this model to Irish data, and examines the employment effect of employers' social insurance ...

    • Employers social insurance contributions and employment - reply 

      Hughes, Gerard (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)
      I do not accept Fagan ad Murphy's argument that my estimate of the employment effect is misleading. My estimate refers to the short run and it is, therefore, perfectly valid for the period to which it relates. The estimates ...

    • Employment and inflation responses to an exchange rate shock in a calibrated model 

      Bermingham, Colin (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)
      Ireland has no ability to affect the exchange rate through interest rates following the adoption of the euro. This paper provides a theoretically transparent method for analysing the impact of an exchange rate shock on ...