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    • 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., ...
    • Geary on inference in multiple regression and on closeness and the Taxi problem 

      Spencer, John E.; Largey, Ann (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 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 ...
    • Geary's contiguity ratio 

      Unwin, Antony (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)
      Forty years ago Geary published a paper oil spatial statistics introducing the contiguity ratio, c, to measure spatial pattern. He discussed c not only as a direct measure but as a regression diagnostic for assessing ...
    • Geary's count of sign changes as a test of unit roots: some further evidence 

      Murphy, Anthony; Geary, R. C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)
      In a recent issue of this journal, Honohan (1996) examined the perperformance of Geary's (1970) count of sign changes or x test as a test of unit roots. The test is based on counting the number of times the plot of a series ...
    • Geary,robert,charles - an appreciation 

      Spencer, Je (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)
      Roy Geary, Ireland's greatest statistician, died in Dublin on 8 February 1983, after a long life devoted to mathematical statistics. He was born on 11 April , 1896 and was educated at University College, Dublin, 1913-1918, ...
    • Gender and voter appeal in Irish elections, 1948-1997 

      O'Kelly, Michael (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2000)
      In general elections in the Republic of Ireland 1948-1997, female candidates have received on average a lower proportion of first-preference votes than males. This disparity between male and female candidates is worsening ...
    • Gender equity as policy paradigm in the Irish educational policy process 

      O'Sullivan, Denis (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)
      The construct of policy paradigm is used to analyse how the proposition that Irish education is a gendered phenomenon has been conceptualized, communicated, reflected in educational policy and acted upon in practice. ...
    • Generalised means of simple utility functions with risk aversion 

      Conniffe, Denis (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2008)
      The paper examines the properties of a generalised mean of simple utilities each displaying risk aversion, that is, with first derivative positive and second derivative negative. It shows the mean is itself a valid utility ...
    • Global competition, Europe and Irish peripherality 

      O'Hearn, Denis (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1993)
      This paper challenges the assumption that European integration can reduce coreperiphery inequality within Europe. Global competition will force associated European firms and states to pursue strategies that impede regional ...
    • Government intervention and the cost of capital to Irish manufacturing-industry 

      Ruane, Frances P.; John, A. Andrew (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1984)
      This paper derives some general expressions for the debt cost of capital to the Irish manufacturing sector, incorporating the interaction between fiscal and financial policies. A range of estimates of the actual cost (per ...
    • GP utilisation in Northern Ireland: exploiting the gatekeeper function 

      McGregor, Pat; McKee, Pat; O'Neill, Ciaran (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)
      Using data from the Northern Ireland Household Panel survey we demonstrate that attendance at outpatients is determined solely by respondent health. This is consistent with the GP acting as a gatekeeper to other services. ...
    • Growth, migration and causality - a comment on tests for macroeconomic feedback from large-scale migration based on the Irish experience, 1948-87 

      Fell, John P.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      The plan of this paper is as follows. In Section II , a description of the general procedure used by Sims (1972) and Walsh (1989) to test for causality is provided along with some of the problems that may be encountered ...