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

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    • Irish consumer expectations and the adaptive expectations model 

      Conniffe, D.; Killen, L. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      Dynamic economic models frequently require some hypothesis about expectations of future values of economic variables. Price expectations have received particular attention but expectations also arise in other contexts. The ...

    • Irish gombeenman - re-incarnation or rehabilitation 

      Gibbon, Peter; Higgins, M.D. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      Mr. Kennedy (1977) makes four main criticisms of our paper. These will be discussed in turn. In the process, we will be concerned not only to defend our original position, but, where possible, to correct and clarify it.

    • Irish government re-observed 

      Farrell, B. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)
      In the last paragraph of his most recent work (Chubb 1975) the doyen of Irish political scientists modifies only slightly a judgement originally advanced in 1964. At that time, prompted by Professor Brian Chapman's sharp ...

    • Irish house price indices ? methodological issues 

      Conniffe, Denis; Duffy, David (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)
      This paper reviews the international literature on house price indices, looking at the basic methodologies employed, the variables chosen for the indices and the functional forms used. Ideas are sought for future improvements ...

    • Irish house prices: will the roof cave in? 

      Roche, Maurice J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)
      In the last few years there have been many comments made in the media about the Irish housing market boom. This paper focuses on two of these comments. The first comment is that some economists have suggested that a ...

    • Irish inflation in EMS 

      Honohan, Patrick; Flynn, John (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)
      This paper outlines the interaction of Irish prices and wages, and highlights the crucial importance of foreign price movements in determining inflation in Ireland. The discussion is based on quarterly empirical estimates ...

    • Irish migration, all or nothing resolved 

      Keenan, Jg (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1981)
      Some issues concerning the data are first discussed. Various migration equations for Ireland are estimated and the coefficient differences explained. Despite having a large proportion of explained variation the coefficient ...

    • Irish migration: the search for the efficiency and equity basis of a European regional policy 

      McCarthy, Mary R.; McCarthy, Thomas G. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      In the US and Canada a federal system of government is used, i.e., there exist a number of tiers of government with different functions assigned to each level. Government intervention in these countries, as in many other ...

    • Irish migration: the search for the efficiency and equity basis of a European regional policy: a comment 

      Geary, Patrick T. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      This paper focuses on aspects of migration which have received limited attention in the Irish literature. The latter has by and large been concerned with the causes of migration, to the near exclusion of its consequences ...

    • Irish pay personal income tax system 

      Norton, Desmond; O'Donnell, Rory (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)
      This paper describes part of the Personal Income Tax system in the context of work in progress on a model of the Irish economy. The model is a short-run one designed to quantify the effects of fiscal policy on the major ...

    • Irish public service broadcasting: a contingent valuation analysis 

      Delaney, Liam; O'Toole, Francis (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      Irish public service broadcasting faces enhanced domestic and international competition and increasingly the Irish public service broadcaster (RTE) is being called upon to justify the scale of the television licence fee, ...

    • Irish voter rationality: the 1987 Irish General Election revisited 

      Bowler, Shaun; Farrell, David M. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      In their study of Irish voters in 1987 Laver, Marsh and Sinnott concluded that there was little evidence of rational voting. This paper re-examines the question, using the same data, and finds evidence of rationality among ...

    • Is fuel poverty in Ireland a distinct type of deprivation? 

      Watson, Dorothy; Maitre, Bertrand (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)
      In this paper, we draw on the Central Statistics Office SILC data for Ireland to ask whether fuel poverty is a distinctive type of deprivation that warrants a fundamentally different policy response than poverty in general. ...

    • Is the EMS a DM zone - evidence from the realignments 

      Honohan, P; McNellis, P (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      Most analysis of the relative importance of different countries in the EMS has focused on the interaction of monetary policies. This paper addresses more directly the interdependence of exchange markets. Guided by the ...

    • Is there a wage premium for returning Irish migrants? 

      Barrett, Alan; O'Connell, Philip J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2001)
      Higher rates of economic growth in recent years have led Ireland from being a country characterised by emigration to one where population inflows have become an important issue. This paper contains an analysis of one ...

    • Issue differential - multidimensional technique for measuring components of attitudes towards social-issues 

      Davis, E.E. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      The Semantic Differential (SD) technique, developed by Osgood, Suci and Tannenbaum (1957) is perhaps one of the most widely used instruments for tapping attitudes or perceptions towards a variety of objects. This is attested ...

    • Job creation and destruction in Northern Ireland: 1973-1993 

      Roper, Stephen (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      Job creation and destruction estimates are made for Northern Ireland manufacturing using the ARD database. International comparisons suggest job creation and destruction rates in Northern Ireland were below those elsewhere. ...

    • Job generation and regional industrial policy in Ireland 

      Meyler, Aidan; Strobl, Eric (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2000)
      Irish industrial policy explicitly encouraged job generation in certain ?designated? areas via, amongst other things, preferential grant treatment, job targets and the building of advance factories in the IDA?s (Industrial ...

    • Job mobility in Ireland 

      Bergin, Adele (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)
      This paper investigates the factors that determine job-to-job mobility in Ireland over the period 1995 to 2001. It finds that labour market experience, working in the public sector, whether a person is overskilled, the ...

    • Job turnover in Irish manufacturing 1972?2006 

      Lawless, Martina; Murphy, Alan P. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2008)
      With the recent slowdown in global economic growth, there has been considerable focus in Ireland on some high-profile job losses, particularly in the manufacturing sector. This paper places such developments into a broader ...