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

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    • IMS, EMS, and the (n-1) problem 

      Claassen, Emil-Maria (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      Three types of exchange rate regimes predominate the present international monetary system (IMS): the managed float by industrialised countries, a fixed but adjustable peg inside the European Monetary System (EMS), and in ...

    • In search of a causal relationship between industrial output and employment in Ireland 

      Fell, John P.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      Recently, many analysts of the Irish manufacturing sector have been concerned with an apparent negative relationship, between aggregate industrial employment and output in Ireland, that has developed since 1980. Over the ...

    • In search of a causal relationship between industrial output and employment in Ireland: a comment 

      Thom, Rodney; Fell, John P.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      John Fell has produced a stimulating paper which uses V A R methodology to address the issue of causal relationships between employment and output at both aggregate and disaggregated levels. Given the techniques employed, ...

    • In-migration to irish cities and towns, 1970-71 

      Hourihan, K (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1982)
      Precis: Cities and towns played an important role in internal migration and immigration in Ireland in 1970-71. Gross migration rates were strongly related to estimates of the employment increases in the centres over the ...

    • Income and wealth in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing 

      O'Sullivan, Vincent; Nolan, Brian; Barrett, Alan; Dooley, Cara (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)
      Between 2009 and 2011, data were collected under the first wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Over 8,500 people aged 50 and over and living in Ireland were interviewed about a wide range of topics ...

    • Income inequality and public policy 

      Nolan, Brian (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)
      This paper briefly summarises the evidence that Ireland has a relatively high level of income inequality, which has been rather stable over time and reflects institutional legacies and choices made in the past. A comparative ...

    • Income maintenance payments in Ireland, 1953-1971 - cyclical variations and long-term growth 

      Walsh, BM (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)
      Three contributions have appeared in recent issues of this Review on the topic of Ireland's social security payments viewed in relation to the growth of national income. The original Note by Geary clearly raised some very ...

    • Income tax cuts and inflation in Ireland 

      Walsh, Frank (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)
      A two sector model of the Irish economy is used to analyse whether either temporarily or permanently deferring reductions in labour tax rates would cut inflation in the short run. If the deferral of tax cuts is seen as ...

    • Indirect tax reform in Ireland 

      Madden, David (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      The Irish tax system is characterised by a narrow base with high rates. This is true of both the direct and indirect system. This paper examines the possibilities for indirect tax reform in Ireland. A model of the economy ...

    • Indirect tax reform in Ireland: a comment 

      O'Hagan, John (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      This paper essentially applies Irish data to the model developed by Ahmad and Stern. It poses three interesting questions. (i) Can we find a tax change which will. increase welfare, holding total revenue constant? (ii) ...

    • Industrial development policy in Northern Ireland: an evaluation of the IDB 

      Hamilton, Douglas (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      A number of studies have highlighted the depth of the economic and social problems which have persisted in Northern Ireland for many years (NIEC, 1989; Kennedy, Giblin and McHugh, 1988; Rowthorn and Wayne, 1988). Since, ...

    • Industrial specialization and trade - Northern Ireland and Republic 

      McAleese, D. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)
      There are many ways of studying the effects of protection on the industrial structure and trade flows of the protected economy. In this paper, we do so by comparing certain features of the economies of Northern Ireland and ...

    • Industry clusters and Irish indigenous manufacturing: limits of the Porter view 

      O'Malley, Eoin; Van Egeraat, Chris (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2000)
      Studies by Porter (1990) and others find that competitive and successful industries usually occur in the form of clusters of industries which are linked together through vertical or horizontal relationships. This paper ...

    • Inefficiency in irish agriculture 

      Leddin, A (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      The purpose of this paper is to compare the relative efficiency of two similar groups of farms in Irish agriculture. Using a restricted profit function to measure economic efficiency and both of its components, price ...

    • Inequality and the crisis: the distributional impact of tax increases and welfare and public sector pay cuts 

      Callan, Tim; Nolan, Brian; Keane, Claire; Walsh, John R. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)
      The economic crisis impacts directly on the distribution of income via unemployment and private sector wages, but the way policy responds in seeking to control soaring fiscal deficits is also central to its distributional ...

    • Inferring long-run supply elasticities from a short-run variable-revenue function 

      Boyle, G. E.; Guyomard, H. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      Recent papers by Kulatilaka (1987, 1985) Squires (1987) and Hertel (1987), using the seminal exposition of Brown and Christensen (1981), which in turn is heavily derivative of the work of Lau (1976, 1978), have emphasised ...

    • Inflation and consumption in Ireland 

      Honohan, Patrick (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      In inflationary times, consumers have limited, mainly out-of-date, information on the general level of prices. Consequently, when the general rate of inflation accelerates unexpectedly, consumers tend to mistakenly regard ...

    • Inflation and money growth: evidence from a multi-country data-set 

      Frain, John C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      Using a multi-country data set strong correlation are found between average growth rates of monetary aggregates and average inflation. The correlation remains strong when countries with higher average inflation rates are ...

    • Inflation, taxation, capital-markets and the demand for housing in Ireland 

      Irvine, Ian (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)
      The objective of this paper is to examine the effect of inflation on the quantity of housing demanded where mortgage interest payments are tax deductable and where capital markets set a limit upon the amount which can be ...

    • Influence of liquid assets and sectoral distribution of income on aggregate consumers behavior in Ireland 

      Kelleher, R. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      The purpose of this paper is to obtain a relationship that will explain movements in the ratio of consumers' expenditure to income. In recent years movements in this ratio have had important implications for the development ...