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

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    • Spatial structure of agricultural output in Republic of Ireland 

      Gillmor, D.A. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      Mixed livestock production with some arable cropping is the description often taken as applying to the form of agriculture practised throughout Ireland, with little or no reference to the major regional variations in the ...

    • Speculative rational expectations' exchange rate dynamics with risk averse wealth owners and a monetary authority averse to exchange rate variability 

      Dunne, Peter G. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      In the analysis to follow an important aspect of speculative exchange rate movements is examined in isolation from macroeconomic feedback effects. The over-riding objective here is to investigate the effect of adherence ...

    • Spillover in Euro Area Sovereign Bond Markets 

      Conefrey, Thomas; Cronin, David (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2014)

    • State, competition and industrial change in Ireland 1991-1999 

      O Riain, Sean (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      As job losses increased rapidly in 2003 amid calls for increased competitiveness, it becomes all the more crucial to understand the character and causes of such industrial upgrading that did occur in Ireland in the 1990s. ...

    • State, family and compulsory schooling in Ireland 

      Fahey, Tony (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
      Legal sanctions to compel parents into sending their children more regularly to school were widely applied in Ireland from the 1920s to the 1950s, following which the practice declined substantially and changed in nature ...

    • Statistical analysis of revisions to Irish national accounts 

      Ruane, F. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)
      This paper examines the effects of data revisions on the major expenditure components in the Irish national accounts. The various tests used to establish their extent confirm that revisions affect levels more seriously ...

    • Status inequalities within families in relation to their structural differences 

      Hannan, D (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)
      The nuclear family, not the individual, is regarded as the basic unit of social stratification systems: a nuclear family being usually defined as a man and wife, with their dependent children, sharing a common domicile. ...

    • Sterling movements and Irish pound interest rates 

      Honohan, Patrick; Conroy, Charles (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1994)
      Despite convergence of inflation to below the system's average, Ireland experienced volatile short-term interest rates in the EMS. Much of the volatility comes from periods of Sterling weakness being associated with higher ...

    • Study of church of Ireland population of Ardfert, Co Kerry, 1971 

      Robinson, HW (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)
      This study was made with four purposes to assist the Diocesan Synod and the Diocesan Council of Ardfert, in planning parochial re-organisation; to assist the Bishop of Limerick and Ardfert and the ministers serving under ...

    • Study of factor structure of attitudinal measures of major social psychological constructs in an Irish sample 

      Davis, E.E.; Fine Davis, Margaret; Breathnach, Agnes; Moran, Rosalyn (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      Within social psychology, the study of attitudes has been a central concern since the first quarter of this century. In fact, some early theorists (e.g. Thomas and Znaniecki, 1918 and Watson, 1925) regarded attitude as so ...

    • Study of non-economic factors in irish economic development 

      Hutchinson, B (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)
      The geographical, demographic, financial and political forces that hampered the progress of economic development in Ireland have been debated for many decades; and Ireland's economic lagardliness has been constrasted, ...

    • Substituting means for missing observations in regression 

      Conniffe, D. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)
      This note examines why the simple method of substituting means seems to give good results in certain circumstances. The objective is not to promote this simple approach instead of more sophisticated methods - no one has ...

    • Suicide in Ireland: the influence of alcohol and unemployment 

      Walsh, Brendan M.; Walsh, Dermot (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)
      We model the behaviour of the Irish suicide rate over the period 1968-2009 using the unemployment rate and the level of alcohol consumption as the principal explanatory variables. We find that alcohol consumption is a ...

    • Sums and products of indirect utility functions 

      Conniffe, Denis (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      There are relatively few known demand systems that are theoretically satisfactory and practically implementable. This paper considers the possibility of deriving more complex demand systems from simpler known ones by ...

    • Survey of industrial movement in Northern Ireland between 1965 and 1969 

      Murie, A.S.; Birrell, W.D.; Hillyard, P.A.; Roche, D.J.D. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)
      Discussionof the economic situation of Northern Ireland has been dominated by persistently high rates of unemployment. Since 1936 these rates have been higher than in any other region of the United Kingdom. Since the war ...

    • Survey of some delinquent boys in an irish-industrial-school and reformatory 

      Hart, I (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)
      The research aimed at discovering specific social and psychological characteristics of institutionalized delinquent boys in the Irish Republic. Various researchers had considered separate aspects of juvenile delinquency ...

    • Sustainable development and rural poverty in the Republic of Ireland : review artiicle 

      Crowley, Ethel (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)
      When one embarks upon a conversation about anything to do with rural Ireland, the most common perception one encounters is that farmers "are cleaning up" or "creaming off the system", that farmers are, for example, absorbing ...

    • Symposium on equality of opportunity in Irish schools - introduction 

      Clancy, Patrick (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1985)
      The papers in this symposium are concerned with an assessment of an important recent publication in Irish education on Equality of Opportunity in Irish Schools (Greaney and Kellaghan, 1984). It is no longer a matter of ...

    • Symposium on unemployment and the labor-market in ireland - introduction 

      Walsh, Bm (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)
      One of the most controversial issues in modern labour economics surrounds the attempt to establish the existence and magnitude of the effect of unemployment insurance on the level of measured unemployment. To some economists ...

    • Systems and management - review 

      Ross, M (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)
      This article seeks to serve several purposes, first to present a brief statement of the evolution and philosophy of modern systems analysis and then, to relate this to the operation of the managerial function in a modern ...