Browsing Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969- by Title
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An environmental input?output model for Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2007)This paper is presented in two parts. The first part demonstrates an environmental input-output model for Ireland for the year 2000. Selected emissions are given a monetary value on the basis of benefit-transfer. This ... -
An evaluation of the changing religious composition of the population of Northern Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1985)It is customary to think of the population of Northern Ireland as being composed of one third Roman Catholics and two thirds Protestants. This convention should now be revised, however, because of the rapid growth of the ... -
An expenditure estimate of Irish national income in 1907
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)In order to compare Ireland's GDP per capita to other countries in the early twentieth century, a new expenditure based estimate for 1907 is presented in this article. Since it broadly adopts Feinstein's method for ... -
An interview with Brendan Walsh
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Analysis of small-scale entrepreneurs in Irish plastics industry
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)An often advanced case for modern small-scale enterprises runs in terms of their contribution to the development of entrepreneurship. Given that the Irish plastics industry is basically a small-scale activity (Ahmed, 1976) ... -
Analysis of the distribution of wealth in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1979)Lyons' (1972) data on the distribution of Irish wealth are considered and the appropriateness of the lognormal and Pareto models for this data are assessed using relatively sophisticated statistical methods. Allowance is ... -
Application of Rotterdam demand system to Irish data
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)A demand model which works in logarithmic first differences is applied to data from the Irish economy to estimate price and income elasticities. Six commodity-groups are used. The results are, on the whole, reasonable and ... -
Application of Samuelson - Stone linear expenditure system to food consumption in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)The principal aim of this paper is to offer a structural analysis of the pattern of food consumption in Ireland over a period of twenty-one years. Such an analysis may also be useful as a basis for projections, although ... -
Appropriate measure of unemployment in an Irish Phillips Curve
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)A generalisation of the Phillips curve for a developing country, recently proposed by Modigliani and Tarentelli (1973), is modified and applied to the Irish economy for the period 1953-72 using annual data. The results ... -
Approximating the distribution of the R/s statistic
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2000)The R/s statistic, used for many years in hydrology, is increasingly employed in economics, although deficiencies in knowledge about its exact distribution have inhibited progress. Harrison and Treacy (1997) described some ... -
Are capital markets efficient? evidence from the term structure of interest rates in Europe
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)This paper investigates the uncovered interest parity hypothesis in an unusual way. We provide empirical evidence on the efficiency of capital markets using a time domain approach. However, a common prediction from theoretical ... -
Are Classroom Internet Use and Academic Performance Higher after Government Broadband Subsidies to Primary Schools?
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Are Irelands social security payments too small - comment
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)The purpose of this short article is two-fold. First, to cast some doubt on the way in which Dr. Geary reached his conclusions concerning social security payments in Ireland and, secondly, to extend the study to take ... -
Are Irelands social security payments too small - note
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)On several occasions in recent years, Ireland has been taken to task for the alleged smallness, percentage-wise, of its social security payments, by comparison with other countries in Western Europe. Comparisons are odious, ... -
Are Irelands social security payments too small - rejoinder
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)Informed discussion of this important topic is to be welcomed, i f not necessarily on the issues, or in the tone, of the foregoing Comment (or of this rejoinder). The purpose of the Comment is stated at the outset to be ... -
Artificial regression based mis-specification tests for discrete choice models
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1994)Lagrange Multiplier (LM) tests for omitted variables, neglected heteroscedasticity and other mis-specifications in general discrete choice models may be simply and conveniently calculated using an artificial regression. ... -
Aspects of intercommunity population balance in Northern Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)The population of Northern Ireland is probably unique in that it is composed of two groups of people each of which can be characterized as a 'minority'. Conventional wisdom has it that at present there is a dominant ... -
Aspects of the labour market for new graduates in Ireland: 1982-1997
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)Using a survey on the first destinations of award recipients in higher education from 1982 to 1997, the trend in first destinations and starting salaries for primary level graduates in Ireland is studied. The data show ... -
Aspects of the life and personality of R. C. Geary
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1993)Roy Geary, Ireland's greatest statistician, was born on 11 April 1896 in Dublin. His father attained as a boy a high place in UK civil service exams and began his career in the customs office in London but spent most of ... -
Assessing the effectiveness of training and temporary employment schemes: some results from the youth labour market
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1991)This paper suggests some ways in which labour market programmes of training and temporary employment should be evaluated. Essentially such programmes should be evaluated relative to the counter factual: what would have ...
