Browsing Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969- by Title
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Academic salary differentials - some evidence from an Irish survey
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)Using data from a survey of the Irish academic labour market, this paper examines whether or not females in the Irish academic system are paid less than comparable males. Variables which adjust for comparability include ... -
Accessibility and urban-growth rates - evidence for the irish urban system
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1984)Urban growth is a complicated process and any quantitative analysis is unlikely to replicate growth rates very well. This paper explores one particular relationship in the context of Irish urban centres, that between growth ... -
Accuracy of demand estimators
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)Information about price and income elasticities of demand is not without interest for economists and policymakers. At the moment, there are many methods of estimating these elasticities but the estimates given by the various ... -
Adjusting from war to peace in 1940s Britain
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1993)Most assessments of British economic policy in the transition from war to peace after 1945 praise the strategy adopted. This paper draws on recent growth theory and analysis of eastern European liberalisation to argue ... -
Adverse selection and moral hazard in government grant giving
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1994)The purpose of this paper is to relate problems of asymmetric information to government grant giving. The innovation in the paper is to extend the asymmetricity to both principal (donor/government) and agent (recipient) ... -
Agency, allocation and distribution - evidence on the motivation of central to local transfers
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)This paper examines fiscal relations between central and local government in Ireland for four years between 1960 and 1972. Its main conclusion is that the evidence does not support a simple principal-agent relationship, ... -
Aggregate job creation, job destruction and job turnover in the Irish manufacturing sector
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)Using an annual employment survey data set we construct aggregate job flow rates for the Irish manufacturing sector for the period 1974 to 1994. We report the existence of simultaneous job creation and job destruction, ... -
Agricultural head rents, pre-famine and post-famine
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)'No country can ever be held in just estimation', proclaimed Arthur Young in 1780, 'when the rental of it is unknown': and Young , in his Tour in Ireland, proceeded to estimate the rental of this country. His was the ... -
Allais, Maurice - Nobel-Prize winner in Economics 1988
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Alternative techniques of estimating import demand elasticities
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)The desirability as well as the difficulty of obtaining reliable estimates of import demand elasticities is clearly demonstrated by the extensive literature on the subject during the last few decades. Interest in price ... -
Alvin-Toffler on the Future
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)This important book has the supreme merit that it makes one think. One's conclusions may differ from the author's everion his own very voluminous data and may differ more on attaching weight to factors of which he is deemed ... -
An alternative measure of employment intensity
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)The input output tables in Eurostat (1983) are used to infer the total employment generated by final demand in 41 NACE Sectors in each of the 8 EEC countries in 1975. Average employment intensities (AEI) are then calculated ... -
An analysis of backward linkages in the Irish electronics sector
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)This paper analyses the development and the determinants of backward linkages between electronics firms and domestic sub-suppliers in Ireland using data for 1982 to 1995. We find that, even when controlling for other firm ... -
An analysis of some presuppositions underlying the concepts of meritocracy and ability as presented in Greaney and Kellaghan study
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1985)Two key concepts in Greaney and Kellaghan's book are those of meritocracy and ability. This paper sets out to present a critical evaluation of the major sociological and educational presuppositions on which these are based. ... -
An analysis of the journal article output of Irish-based economists, 1970 to 2001
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)This paper provides, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of the journal article output of Irish-based economists over a thirty-year period. Using EconLit data, and supplementing where necessary, we provide details ... -
An analysis of the relative size of the government sector, Ireland 1926-52
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)Despite the proliferation of studies relating to the growth of the public sector, there has been limited discussion and analysis of this phenomenon in an historical setting. The present paper attempts to partly fill this ... -
An Applied Computable Equilibrium (ACE) model of the CAP cereal policy reforms: the case of Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)In this paper an Applied Computable Equilibrium (ACE) model is constructed to examine the economic impact of the CAP (Mac Sharry) cereal policy reforms. The model is applied to Irish data. The reforms comprise three elements: ... -
An econometric analysis of charitable donations in the Republic of Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)This paper explores the variables that affect the probability of donating to charity and those that affect the size of donations by Irish households. The dataset employed is the Irish Household Budget Survey (HBS) 1999/2000, ... -
An econometric assessment of the change in quality of the Irish gilt market since the introduction of market making
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)Hasbrouck's (1993) measure of market quality is used to assess the effect of introducing market making in Irish Gilts. The measure is based on aspects of the literature on the decomposition of time series' into stochastic ... -
An economic analysis of the Public Transport Regulation Act, 2009
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)This paper analyses the Public Transport Regulation Act 2009, published on September 8, 2009. The Act provides for the regulation of public bus passenger services, changes the name of the Dublin Transport Authority to ...