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    • Productivity trends in Ireland - a reply 

      Katsiaouni, O (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      Sapsford and Kelly deal with that portion of my work which updated Kennedy's (1971) earlier study. Within this they focused on manufacturing productivity trends, in the post-war period, and not on productivity growth in ...

    • Productivity trends in Ireland - a statistical note 

      Sapsford, D; Kelly, W (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      In a recent study Katsiaouni (1979) presented, amongst other things, estimates of the trend rate of growth of labour productivity in manufacturing between 1953 and 1973. In this note we re-examine this aspect of Katsiaouni's ...

    • Productivity, earnings and composition of labour - irish-manufacturing-industries, 1953-1966 

      Kennedy, Kieran A.; Dowling, Brendan R. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)
      In a paper read recently to the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society oflreland by one of the present authors,1 differences in the growth of labour productivity in Irish manufacturing industries over the period 1953 to ...

    • Productivity, prices, and factor shares in Irish manufacturing industry 1953-70 

      Sutton, J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)
      The share of wages and salaries in the net output of manufacturing industry over the period 1953-70 is shown in Fig. 1. The upward trend of the earlier years was reversed after 1957, and the share declined fairly.steadily ...

    • Profitability, investment and employment - a survey of recent developments in medium-term growth theory 

      Barry, Frank G. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)
      This paper reviews the recent theoretical literature on the relationship between profitability, investment and employment in an attempt to clarify the roles of demand-management, supply-management and incomes policies in ...

    • Projections of Irish cattle and milk output under EEC conditions 

      O'Connor, R (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)
      Cattle and milk production are the most important enterprises in the agricultural sector of the Irish economy, accounting for about 57 per cent of gross output in 1970. There has been much speculation as to the likely ...

    • Property cycles in Dublin - the anatomy of boom and slump in the industrial and office property sectors 

      MacLaran, Andrew; MacLaran, Morag; Malone, Patrick (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1987)
      The property development process is the means by which built space is created to accommodate the variety of urban functions. The paper examines the existence of boom-slump cycles in the industrial and office property ...

    • Protectionism and product harmonization in the EEC 

      McCarthy, John (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      This work examines resistance to the harmonisation of performance, safety, and labeling criteria within the EEC. A theoretical treatment of possible protective and non-protective reasons for the delays encountered in ...

    • Pseudo-bivariate structure of 2 x 2 contingency table - preliminary analysis 

      Henry, EW (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)
      The paper by R. C. Geary on the comparative sensitivity of tests of significance to sample size contains the interesting suggestion that any 2 x 2 contingency table might be thought of as a sample realisation of a bivariate ...

    • Psychological disturbance in Ireland, in England and in Irish emigrants to England - comparative study 

      Cochrane, Raymond; Stopes-Roe, Mary (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      A community survey involving 200 Irish emigrants to England, 200 natives of England and 200 residents of the Republic of Ireland was conducted to test a number of hypotheses drawn from mental hospital admission statistics. ...

    • Psychosocial factors associated with psychological problems in Irish children and their mothers 

      Fitzgerald, Michael; Jeffers, Ann (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1994)
      This study examined behaviour problems, IQ and reading attainment in 2,029 ten year olds. Twenty per cent of the boys and 11 per cent of the girls were found to have behaviour problems. Disadvantaged children were more ...

    • Public expenditure in ireland on housing in postwar period 

      Kennedy, F (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)
      This paper deals with expenditure by public authorities, central and local, on housing in the post-war period in Ireland. The first section outlines the main policy phases which were reflected in shifts in the pattern of ...

    • Publications of Brendan M. Walsh 

      Walsh, Brendan M. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)
      Publications of Brendan M. Walsh

    • Punishment - 3 analytical threads and violence they produce 

      Eynon, T.G. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)
      In so far as punishment is concerned, it appears to me that the main features are to be found in an examination o f political dialogue; legal philosophy; and empirical research. It is as though the two cultures of Professor ...

    • Quality based rankings of Irish economists 1990-2000 

      Coupe, Tom; Walsh, Patrick Paul (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)
      We use three different quality based rankings of the publishing record of Irish based economists in academic journals during the period 1990-2000 and 1995-2000. While individual rankings are sensitive to the range of ...

    • Quantifying revenue windfalls from the Irish housing market 

      Addison-Smyth, Diarmaid; McQuinn, Kieran (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)
      The speed and severity of the decline in the Irish fiscal position in recent years raises a number of important issues regarding the assessment of fiscal policy within the EU. From a position of relative strength, with ...

    • Quantifying the non-stationarity in Irish real exchange rates 

      Wright, Jonathan H. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1993)
      Empirical work, both in Ireland and elsewhere, has found little evidence for the proposition that log-real exchange rates are stationary, implying that the purchasing power parity (PPP) relation cannot hold, not even in a ...

    • Quantitative analysis of degree of integration between the Irish and U.K. financial markets 

      Browne, Francis X.; O'Connell, Thomas (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)
      In this paper, we investigate the quantitative relationship between Irish and U.K. interest rates. With varying degrees of emphasis, it is frequently stated that Irish interest rates mirror U.K. rates and can be treated, ...

    • Quantitative estimates of trade liberalisation - methods and results 

      McAleese, D (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)
      The economic benefits of trade liberalisation are conventionally divided into two parts: static gains and dynamic gains. Static gains refer to the advantages of increased specialisation arising from easier access to ...

    • Quarterly estimates of capacity utilisation in Ireland 

      McMahon, P.C.; Smyth, D.J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1974)
      The present paper derives indices of capacity utilisation for the total transportable industries sector of the Irish economy and also for twelve sub-sectors. The indices estimated are based on the Wharton School linked-peaks ...