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

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    • The art of gracefully exiting a peg 

      Asici, Ahmet; Wyplosz, Charles (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)
      The wave of liberalisation of capital movements, which swept Europe in the 1980s and the emerging market countries in the 1990s, has given rise to the two-corner strategy. This strategy, expounded e.g. by Eichengreen (1994) ...

    • The arts and section-32 of the 1984 Finance Act 

      O'Hagan, John W.; Duffy, Christopher T. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1988)
      Research on the economics of the arts has grown enormously in the last decade (see O'Hagan and Duffy, 1987). One area which has received particular attention is that of tax concessions to the arts (see, for example, Feld, ...

    • The balance of payments as a monetary phenomenon - a review and consideration of Irish evidence 1960-1978 

      Kenneally, Martin; Finn, Mary (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1985)
      This paper briefly sketches alternative approaches to balance of payments theory and notes the salient features of `the? monetary approach. Some alternative models associated with the monetary approach are distinguished ...

    • The Causality Between Economic Growth and Immigration in Germany and Switzerland 

      González-Gómez, Manuel; Otero Giráldez, Mª Soledad (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)
      This paper analyses the relationship between immigration and the economic growth in Germany and Switzerland during the period 1970-2005 by using a cointegration approach. Both countries have gone through a similar learning ...

    • The causes of Ireland's unemployment 

      Newell, Andrew; Symons, J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      We outline a small model of the Irish labour market and use it to explain what has happened over the last 10 years. We conclude that Irish unemployment problems in the 1980s were due to international demand-side factors, ...

    • The challenge of tax reform and expanding the tax base 

      Poterba, Peter (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)
      My topic today is the design of tax policy, and in particular the role of socalled ?tax expenditures? in income tax systems. It is a topic that is important not just in Ireland but in many other nations ? including the ...

    • The challenge of urban regeneration in deprived European neighbourhoods: a partnership approach 

      Corcoran, Mary P. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)
      This paper sets out to critically examine the adoption of a partnership approach to urban regeneration at neighbourhood level across eight European cities. While all of the cities were committed to the idea of the socially ...

    • The colour of the cats 

      Li, David D.; Wu, Changqi (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      China has experimented with two strategies of reform of its state-owned enterprises (SOE). One is diversification of SOEs? ownership through introducing non-state sources of investment. Another is to improve the management ...

    • The comparative performance of small manufacturing companies located in the mid west and Northern Ireland 

      Hitchens, DMWN; O'Farrell, PN (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1988)
      Specific dimensions of the performance and characteristics of a matched sample of small manufacturing firms in the Mid West of Ireland and Northern Ireland are compared. The analysis examines comparative growth rates, ...

    • The cross-channel migration of Irish travelers 

      Gmelch, George; Gmelch, Sharon Bohn (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1985)
      Until the late 1950s, Irish Travellers lived primarily in rural areas and travelled within relatively confined areas. With the urbanisation of the last quarter century, their traditional sources of income have dried up and ...

    • The cultural production of enterprise: understanding selectivity as cultural policy 

      Carr, Patricia (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)
      Within the context of a conceptualisation of the phenomenon of enterprise culture which focuses on the link between culture and government, this paper represents an attempt to make visible the cultural dimension of ...

    • The dearth of data on Irish farm wives: a critical review of the literature 

      Shortall, Sally (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1991)
      This paper calls attention to the paucity of knowledge and statistical data on the activities of Irish farm wives. The richest sources of information are the anthropological and sociological studies of Irish rural life ...

    • The decline of irish industry in the 19th-century 

      Omalley, E (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1981)
      Official statistics published by the Department of the Environment (London) suggest that during the 1970s Northern Ireland changed from being the cheapest housing region in the United Kingdom to being the most expensive ...

    • The demand for alcohol in ireland 

      Thom, Dr (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1984)
      Abstract: Equilibrium and dynamic versions of Deaton and Muellbauer's AID S model are used to estimate demand systems for Irish consumption of beer, spirits and wine using quarterly data for the period 1969-1980. The dynamic ...

    • The demand for labor and capital inputs in irish manufacturing-industries, 1953-1973 

      Boyle, G.E.; Sloane, P.D. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1982)
      Precis: Factor-demand functions are estimated, for two types of labour (wage-earners and salaried-workers) and capital, for 40 manufacturing industries. Two sets of elasticity results are reported. The first set implicitly ...

    • The Demand for League of Ireland Football 

      Reilly, Barry (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2015)

    • The demand for money and the term structure of interest-rates in Ireland, 1971-1981 

      Kearney, Colm (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1985)
      This paper investigates the extent to which the demand for various measures of money in Ireland depends upon the term structure of interest rates. The yield to maturity curve is first estimated using refinements of the ...

    • The determinants of higher education participation in Ireland: a micro analysis 

      Flannery, Darragh; O'Donoghue, Cathal (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)
      In this paper we present a theoretical model of higher education participation in Ireland. Utilising the Living in Ireland Survey data we model the impact of costs (direct and indirect), the estimated life cycle returns, ...

    • The determinants of trade union growth in the republic of ireland - an econometric investigation 

      Sapsford, D (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1984)
      Abstract: This paper documents an econometric investigation into the determinants of the rate of growth of trade union membership in the Irish economy. Empirical results obtained for the period 1943 to 1977 provide support ...

    • The development of an Irish census-based social class scale 

      O'Hare, Aileen; Whelan, Christopher T.; Commins, Patrick (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1991)
      This paper outlines the reasons for, and steps taken, to develop an Irish census-based social class scale. The willing participation of the Central Statistics Office in reorganising its occupational categories to devise ...