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

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    • Migration patterns in Dublin county borough 

      Johnson, N (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)
      In the last 15 years Dublin has undergone a dramatic change, from the fairly sleepy introverted capital of the 26 counties, it has been transformed into a relatively sophisticated and increasingly cosmopolitan financial ...

    • Mild mental handicap and special-education need - a social-process perspective 

      Oconnor, S (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)
      Abstract: The findings to be reported are those of a study of the process of ascertainment as mildly and mentally handicapped within the national school system in Ireland. The purpose of the study was to explore the operation ...

    • Minor parties in Irish political life, 1922-1989 

      Coakley, John (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      This article examines the role in Irish politics of parties other than the three "permanent" ones with a view to filling a recognised gap in political research. Minor parties are grouped into four loose categories on the ...

    • Mobility and gender at the top tail of the earnings distribution 

      Finnie, Ross; Irvine, Ian (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)
      The increasing share of the top fractile in the earnings distributions of several Anglo- Saxon heritage economies since the 1970s has been dramatic, and well documented. To date, however, little is known about the ...

    • Modeling the demand for factors of production in the mechanical engineering industry of Northern Ireland, 1954-79 

      Harris, R (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1988)
      This paper estimates an econometric model of the demand for the factors of production using data available for the Mechanical Engineering industry in Northern Ireland. The primary aim is to demonstrate that it is possible ...

    • Modelling credit in the Irish mortgage market 

      Addison-Smyth, Diarmaid; McQuinn, Kieran; O'Reilly, Gerard (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)
      The sharp decline in the performance of international property markets has been central to the financial distress experienced globally. The Irish housing market experienced particularly strong rates of price increases and ...

    • Modelling the dynamics of the term structure of interest rates 

      Steeley, James M. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      In order to provide tractable bond pricing formulae, the arbitrage theories of the term structure make specific assumptions as to the number, identity and process generating the underlying forcing variables. This paper ...

    • Models of Irish tobacco consumption 

      Conniffe, Denis (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)
      This paper estimates several econometric models of tobacco consumption, employing Irish annual time series data. The approaches examined include the recently developed rational addiction model and a two-component model ...

    • Monetarism in ireland - a simple statistical approach 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1981)
      This paper deals with the relationship in Ireland between money and prices during the period since 1960. It is shown that the causal relationship is from money to prices very much more than the other way about. Chain of ...

    • Monetary-policy with overshooting exchange-rates 

      Niehans, J (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      The advent of floating exchange rates has meant that international monetary theory has been subject to continuous testing. Using Switzerland as the example of a small open economy (SOE), three issues are considered. First, ...

    • Money demand in Ireland 1972-1989: a dynamic equation 

      Hurley, Margaret; Guiomard, Cathal (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      The relationship between the demand for real money and its principal determinants is the vital link by which the actions of the monetary authorities affect the real economy. The estimation of money demand functions that ...

    • Money market strategy or monetary aggregates - analysis of recent federal reserve policy 

      Lucia, JL (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)
      In recent years the critics o f monetary policy have placed increasing emphasis on the need to control monetary aggregates. This emphasis has resulted from what appears to be a bias on the part of the Federal Reserve in ...

    • Money, interest and economic activity in Ireland 

      Thom, DR (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)
      Recent studies have provided evidence that economic activity in Ireland responds to changes in certain monetary aggregates.1 Thomas F. Hoare, for example, employs a 'Monetarist Model of Income Determination' to investigate ...

    • More about Geary and the "Taxi" problem 

      Conniffe, Denis; Geary, R. C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)
      Geary's treatment of the "taxi" problem was recently re-examined by Spencer and Largey (1993). This paper investigates the topic further, partly to place Geary's estimator in the context of more general methods and also ...

    • More on actual versus hypothetical replacement ratios in Ireland 

      Nolan, Brian (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1987)
      Hypothetical replacement ratios, widely used in both cross-section and time-series analyses, have been subjected to considerable criticism in the UK. This paper focuses on the use of hypothetical benefits and replacement ...

    • More rhetoric than reality: enterprise level industrial relations partnerships in Ireland 

      Gunnigle, Patrick (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)
      Since 1987 Ireland has had a sequence of centralised agreements on pay and other aspects of economic and social policy negotiated between the "social partners". A criticism of this period is the failure to extend the ...

    • Mr Whitaker and industry: setting the record straight ? a reply to Barry and Daly 

      Walsh, Patrick Paul; Whelan, Ciara (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)
      The turnaround in economic policy from the late 1950s was remarkable. Protectionism was abandoned and exporting incentivised. As Barry and Daly (2011) admit, 'Conventional wisdom accords the bulk of the credit for ...

    • Mr. Whitaker and industry: setting the record straight 

      Barry, Frank; Daly, Mary E. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)
      After 16 years of unbroken Fianna Fail rule, the first four of the five general elections of the period 1948-1963 saw sitting governments unseated. Economic policy pivoted: protectionism was abandoned; foreign direct ...

    • Multi-level ?partnership? and Irish waste management: the politics of municipal incineration 

      Murray, Michael (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)
      This article looks at the deployment of partnership-as-governance in the area of EU and Irish waste management and incineration policy. Looking at the specific case of plans to locate a municipal incinerator at Poolbeg in ...

    • Multinationals and indigenous employment: an "Irish disease"? 

      Barry, Frank; Hannan, Aoife (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)
      In trade studies, Ireland emerges as having a revealed comparative disadvantage in labour-intensive industries. Can the country's unusual industrial structure contribute to our understanding of its high unemployment? The ...