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

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    • Social areas in Dublin 

      Hourihan, Kevin (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)
      The primary purpose of the paper is not to examine Dublin's factorial ecology (even with different variables and methods), but rather to identify social areas in the city and examine their interrelationships and implications. ...

    • Social class, class awareness and political beliefs in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland 

      Hayes, Bernadette C.; McAllister, Ian (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)
      Although Ireland, North and South, is usually considered sui generis in the literature of comparative politics, there has been debate about the socio-economic bases of the parties in the Republic of Ireland. This paper ...

    • Social consensus and incomes policy 

      Durkan, Joe (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
      This paper argues that centralised bargaining as practised in Ireland added to wage inflationary pressure as: the focus of centralised bargaining was the preservation of good industrial relations; the process of wage ...

    • "Social consensus and incomes policy": a comment 

      Tansey, Paul (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
      Most people are conditioned to believe that centralised pay deals are a good thing. They have names that stress harmony and consensus from National Understandings to Programmes for Economic and Social Progress. They are ...

    • Social definition in child-care in the Irish republic - models of the child and child-care intervention 

      O'Sullivan, Denis (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      This paper developed from a case study of an Irish child-care institution and considers some fundamental definitions in child care in the Irish Republic. Three main aspects are explored: the transition from a social risk ...

    • Social expenditure of public authorities and economic growth 1947-66 

      Kennedy, F (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)
      Social expenditure in this context refers to the consolidated expenditure of public authorities on education, health, housing and income maintenance. Public authorities comprise the Central Government (including extra-budgetary ...

    • Social function of physical violence in an Irish urban area 

      O' Neill, C (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      This article is part of a study of the factors rendering people vulnerable to unemployment. While initially there was no intention of including violence within the scope of the survey, its prevalence necessitated that some ...

    • Social group homogamy in marriage in ireland 

      Ohiggins, K (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1982)
      Precis: The extent of homogamy in Irish marriages, using a relatively simple unitary indicator of status, namely social group, is examined here. Because of the limitations imposed by the data used ? national statistics ? ...

    • Social mobility and equality of opportunity 

      Breen, Richard (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)
      The idea of social mobility is closely linked to the concept of equality of opportunity: it is widely held that if there were greater equality of opportunity there would be more social mobility and, conversely, that more ...

    • Social mobility in Ireland in the 1990s: evidence from the 1994 Living in Ireland Survey 

      Whelan, Christopher T. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)
      In this paper we seek to update findings relating to class mobility outcomes and processes in the Republic of Ireland employing data from the Living in Ireland Survey which was carried out in 1994. We also provide an ...

    • Social partnership as a mode of governance: introduction to the special issue 

      O Riain, Sean (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)
      The development of ?social partnership? institutions has been one of the most striking, and surprising aspects of the transformation of Irish society and politics in the past fifteen years. The papers in this special issue ...

    • Social partnership, competitiveness and exit from fiscal crisis 

      Barry, Frank (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)
      The contribution of social partnership to Ireland?s economic boom remains the subject of controversy. This paper analyses at a theoretical level how a multi-period deal on wages and taxation of the type struck in the late ...

    • Social partnership: from Lemass to Cowen 

      Roche, William K. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)
      Dull and predictable though it may be, especially when contrasted with the ?heroic? era of labour and industrial relations during the first two decades of the twentieth century, the theme of social partnership is of ...

    • Social scientific-research on the Troubles in Northern Ireland - the problem of objectivity 

      Taylor, R (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1988)
      The growth in output of social scientific research on Northern Ireland and on the `Troubles? is described. Despite a considerable body of work the research on the `Troubles? encounters distinct problems concerning objectivity. ...

    • Social security payments - note 

      O'Hagan, J; O'Higgins, M (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)
      It is with great reluctance that we take issue with Dr Geary again. However, be it due to bad presentation on our part or due to misinterpretation on Dr Geary's, some seriously misleading assertions were made in the latter's ...

    • Societal disintegration in Northern Ireland - a 5-year update 

      Heskin, Ken (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1985)
      The hypothesis that society in Northern Ireland is in imminent danger of collapse as a consequence of the prolonged conflict there is tested using trends in crime from 1960-1983 as an index of such an occurrence. Comparisons ...

    • Societal disintegration in Northern-Ireland - fact or fiction 

      Heskin, K (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1981)
      Within the framework of these results there was indication of the growing importance of electrical and mechanical skills and improvements in labour productivity in changing the basis of Irish trade.It has been suggested ...

    • Socio-economic Differentials in Male Mortality in Ireland 1984-2008 

      Layte, Richard; Nolan, Anne (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2016)
      The presence of pronounced inequalities in mortality and life expectancy across income, education and social groups has long been a “stylized fact” of demography. Research across a large number of developed and wealthy ...

    • Socio-economic mortality differentials in Ireland 

      Nolan, Brian (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      Differences in mortality rates between socio-economic groups for Ireland are analysed, using the standard methodology which has been extensively applied in other countries. This involves relating data on deaths by ...

    • Socioeconomic aspects of anti-semitism in ireland, 1880-1905 

      Moore, G (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1981)
      Sociological research in Ireland is committed to an unhealthy reliance on survey analysis tech-niques. The major defect of such an approach is that the insights of historical and comparative approaches are frequently absent. ...