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

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    • Trends in economic vulnerability in the Republic of Ireland 

      Whelan, Christopher T.; Nolan, Brian; Maitre, Bertrand (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)
      In this paper we evaluate trends in levels of economic vulnerability in Ireland during the period 1994-2001. We also document changes in the consequences of such vulnerability for social exclusion and in the social demographic ...

    • Trends in higher-education participation in Northern Ireland 

      Osborne, R.D.; Miller, R.L.; Cormack, R.J.; Williamson, A.P. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)
      This paper is concerned with the analysis of a recent cohort of higher education entrants from Northern Ireland. It examines the social and educational characteristics of these entrants in the light of data relating to ...

    • Trends in Irish fertility rates in comparative perspective 

      Fahey, Tony (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2001)
      This paper examines trends in Irish fertility rates over the past four decades in the context of fertility trends in developed countries generally. Irish fertility rates have stabilised at the upper edge of the European ...

    • Trends in religious composition of population in Republic of Ireland 1946-71 

      Walsh, B.M. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)
      Compared with 1946 there were more Catholics in the Republic in 1971 but 24 per cent fewer in the main Protestant denominations. More strikingly the number returning 'no religion' or 'no statement' has risen sharply. The ...

    • Trends in the share of long-term unemployment in Ireland 

      Breen, Richard; Honohan, Patrick (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1991)
      Unemployment in Ireland has long been characterised by two features: a relatively high rate of unemployment, and a relatively high proportion of the unemployed who are long-term unemployed (defined as unemployed for one ...

    • Turnout in second order elections: the case of EP elections in Dublin 1984 and 1989 

      Sinnott, Richard; Whelan, Brendan J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
      This paper argues that the distinction between first order and second order elections should be used as an analytical tool rather than as a source of different standards to be applied in assessing turnout. The Maastricht ...

    • Uk and united-states visitor expenditure in ireland - some econometric findings 

      Ohagan, Jw; Harrison, Mj (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1984)
      Abstract: This paper analyses trends in the Irish shares of UK and US visitor expenditures in Europe over the period 1964 to 1981. This is done in the context of two larger studies by the authors, the theoretical framework ...

    • Understanding the implications of choice of deprivation index for measuring consistent poverty in Ireland 

      Whelan, Christopher T. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2007)
      In this paper we make use of the Irish component of the European Union Community Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey for 2004 in order to develop a measure of consistent poverty that overcomes some ...

    • Unemployment and religion in Northern Ireland 

      Osborne, R.D.; Cormack, R.J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)
      This paper examines recent data on the employment status of Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. In particular, the 1981 Population Census and the new Continuous Household Survey are used to compare rates of ...

    • Unemployment duration, aggregate demand and unemployment-insurance - a study of irish live register survival probabilities, 1967-1978 

      Hughes, G; Walsh, Bm (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)
      Abstract: Quarterly data on the duration of unemployment for males and females are used to derive measures of the probability of remaining on the live Register for another quarter for persons who have been on the register ...

    • Unemployment, welfare benefits and the financial incentive to work 

      Layte, Richard; Callan, Tim (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2001)
      Although disincentive effects associated with payments have been regulaly found in research in the US and UK, the UK research is disputed and effects have been notable by their absence in studies from Continental Europe. ...

    • Union and gender wage gap estimates for young workers in Ireland: a note 

      Reilly, Barry (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)
      This note exploits data from the YEA/ESRI Follow-Up Survey of School-Leavers from 1981 and 1982 to provide union wage gap estimates for young male and female workers. In contrast to the evidence available for the adult ...

    • Unionist state and the outdoor relief riots of 1932 

      Bew, Paul; Norton, Christopher (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      This paper breaks with the monolithic conception of the Unionist State in the inter-war period. It argues that the State apparatuses were characterised by an intense populist/anti-populist division. It takes a significant ...

    • Unions and the wage distribution in Ireland 

      Callan, Tim; Reilly, Barry (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1993)
      This paper examines the effects of trade unions in Ireland on the first two moments of the wage distribution. Using data from the ESRI's 1987 Survey of Income Distribution, Poverty and Usage of State Services, a union ...

    • Unmarried mothers - comparative study 

      Kirke, Deirdre (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      This study was designed to identify factors which might be associated with unmarried motherhood in Ireland. One hundred unmarried mothers and a control group of the same number of married mothers were interviewed by the ...

    • Urban-population density patterns and change in ireland, 1901-1979 

      Hourihan, K (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1982)
      Precis: There were major changes in the population geography of the three largest cities in the Republic of Ireland during the twentieth century. Population densities in inner city areas have declined rapidly and most ...

    • Using absolute deviations to compute lines of best fit 

      Houck, Jp; Hunt, Rd (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)
      There is some renewed interest among agricultural economists and others in the old technique of using minimized absolute deviations in computing lines of best fit. H. B. Jones and J. C. Thompson, in a recent article in ...

    • Using the Synthetic Biproportional Projector for the measurement of structural change in Ireland 

      Andreosso, Bernadette; Semenov, Michael (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1994)
      This paper analyses changes in the industrial structure of Ireland between 1975 and 1985. Confining our analysis to the inter-industry matrix, we use the Synthetic Biproportional Project method, which has significant ...

    • Variables controlling elicitation and suppression of subvocal defence mechanism 

      MacCann Haslett, D. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)
      A persuasive, counter-attitudinal communication was individually delivered to 66 male respondents. While the baseline control group (N = 12) merely received the message, the 54 experimental subjects responded to concurrently ...

    • Verdoorn law - a retrospective view 

      Bradley, John; Prendergast, Canice (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)
      We examine the origins of the Verdoorn law and the key role it plays in Kaldor's growth analysis. We suggest that two empirical studies of the Irish economy (Kennedy, 1971 and Kennedy and Dowling, 1975) can be interpreted ...