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

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    • First employment, social status and mobility in Dublin 

      Hutchins, B (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      It is widely believed that a young man entering the labour market for the first time may, if he wishes, take any job open to him, of whatever social status or degree of skill, confident that this will not affect significantly ...

    • Fiscal adjustment in Ireland in the 1980s 

      Honohan, Patrick (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
      We examine both the motivation for, and the overall dynamics of, fiscal adjustment from 1981 to 1991. Growing interest costs to meet an ever-expanding debt, combined with the impact of retrenchment on the welfare bill and ...

    • "Fiscal adjustment in Ireland in the 1980s": a comment 

      Martin, John P. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
      The Irish experience with fiscal adjustment is interesting, not just for a domestic audience but also for an international one. If one confines the comparison to the OECD countries, the Irish experience can be seen as part ...

    • "Fiscal policies, devaluations and exchange rate regimes": a comment 

      McAleese, Dermot; Alogoskoufis, George S. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
      A characteristic of many small countries is their propensity to compare domestic performance with that of the outside world. The Irish are much given to this practice. Different comparators are taken depending on the nature ...

    • Fiscal policies, devaluations and exchange rate regimes: the stabilisation programmes of Ireland and Greece 

      Alogoskoufis, George S. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
      This paper contrasts the stabilisation programmes of Ireland and Greece in the 1980s and draws out lessons for the design of such programmes in small open economies. Programmes relying on government revenue increases are ...

    • Fiscal policy and demand management in Ireland 1960-70 

      Ryan, L (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      This paper discusses fiscal policy and the management of the Irish economy during the years 1960-70. The role of fiscal policy in demand management, as most economists would probably nowadays see it, is described in Section ...

    • Fiscal policy and international competitiveness: evidence from Ireland 

      Galstyan, Vahagn; Lane, Philip R. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)
      Our goal in this paper is to investigate the relation between government spending and the long-run behaviour of the Irish real exchange rate. We postulate that an increase in government consumption should be associated ...

    • Fiscal policy in Irish economy - leontief approach to some Keynesian objectives 

      Irvine, I.J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1974)
      The objective of this paper is to examine certain aspects of the effectiveness of fiscal policy in the Irish economy within the framework of a mixed Leontief Keynesian system. Primarily, we are concerned with estimating ...

    • Fiscal rules, fiscal institutions, and fiscal performance 

      Von Hagen, Jurgen (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      Public spending is a story of some people spending other people?s money. In modern democracies, voters elect politicians to make decisions about public spending for them, and they provide the funds by paying taxes. Two ...

    • Fisher, R.A.. - a memoir 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)
      Since my mathematical statistics, such as they were, are the greatest thing in my life, R.A. Fisher, their finest exponent, was the greatest man in my life, though I had little personal contact with him. There were very ...

    • Foreign direct investment and emergence of a dual economy 

      Stewart, J.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)
      Studies of foreign direct investment in Ireland have concentrated on the absence of linkages and the high proportion of output exported. This paper analyses a sample of manufacturing firms in the Mid-West Region to highlight ...

    • Foreign direct-investment in ireland - empirical-evidence and theoretical implications 

      Oloughlin, b; ofarrell, pn; O'Farrell, PN (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      This paper summarises the existing literature on foreign direct investment and the multinational enterprise with emphasis on those aspects which are particularly relevant to Ireland. Empirical analysis of data on new ...

    • Foreign ownership and wages in British establishments 

      Velde, Dirk Willem te (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      This paper uses the 1990-1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS) panel data set to show that foreign establishments in Britain pay 13 per cent higher wages than domestic establishments. However, the differential ...

    • Foreign-held U.S. government securities and monetary policy in United States 

      Lucia, J.L. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1974)
      The American deficit in the balance of payments of recent years has had its counterpart in the accumulation of US government securities in the hands of foreigners. Dollars earned by foreigners have been, to a large extent, ...

    • From developmental Ireland to migration nation: immigration and shifting rules of belonging in the Republic of Ireland 

      Fanning, Bryan (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)
      This paper considers how post-1950s Irish developmentalism fostered the economic, social and political acceptance of large-scale immigration following EU enlargement in 2004. It argues that economic imperatives alone ...

    • From division to dissension - Irish trade unions in 1930s 

      McCarthy, C (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)
      The special conference of April 1936 directed the national executive of the Irish Trade Union Congress to 'forthwith set up a Commission to inquire into and report on the terms of reference to the unions.'

    • From division to dissension - Irish trade unions in nineteen-thirties 

      McCarthy, C (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)
      In 1930 the Irish labour movement divided, the Irish Trade Union Congress forming one organisation and the Labour Party another. It was an amicable recognition, despite reservations and regrets, that Connolly's syndicalism ...

    • Full-employment labor supply in ireland - 1954-1970 

      Slattery, D.G. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      In Ireland as in many other countries the attainment of full employment has become a central feature of government economic policy. In attempting to translate 'full employment' into quantitative terms it must be borne in ...

    • Further analysis of Irish expenditure functions, 1965-1966 

      Pratschke, JL (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)
      This paper is concerned with a closer examination of the interaction between household size and composition and household expenditures, using, as in the previous study, data collected by the Central Statistics Office and ...

    • Further evidence of forward exchange market efficiency: an application of cointegration using German and UK data 

      Nugent, Jim (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      The purpose of this paper is to explore the hypothesis that the Irish forward exchange market is efficient. The simple market efficiency hypothesis assumes investors are risk neutral and that agents are rational, i.e., ...