Browsing Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969- by Date of Publication

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    • Establishing of irish pound - backward glance 

      Pratschke, Jl (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1969)
      This paper proposes to examine the major structural developments in Irish banking during the decade of the nineteen-twenties. This was an era of great changes on the pohtical scene in Ireland, and also o f institutional ...

    • Regional study of relative prosperity of irish farms of different sizes 

      Ross, M (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1969)
      In the course o f a study o f regional allocation in Irish agriculture it became necessary to attempt to estimate regional incomes by farm size for the base year of the study, 1960. The results afforded a considerable ...

    • 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 ...

    • Method of evaluating company employment policies based on national preferences 

      Mulvey, C (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)
      In the course of preparing a cost/benefit analysis of Irish Shipping Ltd., it was necessary to attempt an evaluation of the employment policy pursued by the company. This paper describes the method employed in making the ...

    • Changing regional pattern in ireland 

      Baker, T; Ross, M (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)
      Draw a line down the Shannon, bend and extend it to the north east to include Longford and the Ulster counties, add Kerry and perhaps West Cork, and one obtains the traditional dividing line of Ireland. 'The West', the ...

    • 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 ...

    • Alternative techniques of estimating import demand elasticities 

      Mcaleese, D (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)
      The desirability as well as the difficulty of obtaining reliable estimates of import demand elasticities is clearly demonstrated by the extensive literature on the subject during the last few decades. Interest in price ...

    • Wages and labour mobility - inter-industry study 

      Walsh, B (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)
      There are grounds for general scepticism regarding the importance ofrelative wages in allocating labour between industries in the manufacturing sector of the economy. The main findings of the massive OECD study Wages and ...

    • Determinants of personal savings in ireland - econometric inquiry 

      Kennedy, Kieran A.; Dowling, Brendan R. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)
      The acceleration in the rate of economic growth in Ireland in. the last ten years or so compared with the earlier post-war years has been accompanied by a very considerable rise in the proportion of income saved. This ...

    • Some political behaviour patterns and attitudes of roman catholic priests in a rural part of Northern Ireland 

      Fahy, Patrick A. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      The activities of churchmen in the field of politics can be approached by the political scientist on two levels. On the macro-political level, the church as a whole is taken to be the unit of analysis. This approach views ...

    • Fiscal policy and demand management in Ireland 1960-70 

      Ryan, L (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      This paper discusses fiscal policy and the management of the Irish economy during the years 1960-70. The role of fiscal policy in demand management, as most economists would probably nowadays see it, is described in Section ...

    • Human capital and economic growth - United Kingdom, 1951-1961 

      Moreh, J (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      In recent years, economists have been turning their exploratory energies in increasing measure towards investment in human-beings, such as formal education, post-school training, health, migration and information. Of these, ...

    • Observations on age at marriage in Dublin, related to social status and social mobility 

      Hutchins, B (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      The years since the Second World War have been characterised by a general decline in mean age at marriage in the Western world: people are marrying at earlier ages than was usual in the immediate past. Ireland has proved ...

    • Difficulties in practical application of game theory and a partial solution 

      Walsh, JE; Kelleher, GJ (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      Much effort has been devoted to development of game theory. However, nontrivial practical applications of discrete game theory are few. One reason may be difficulties in evaluating payoff matrices. Another reason may be ...

    • Output, prices and productivity in Irish sheltered and exposed transportable goods industries, 1953-1967 

      Hughes, JG (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      In a paper on price and income determination in the Norwegian economy, Aukrust classifies industries as being either sheltered or exposed. He defines exposed industries as 'those which market their products abroad, or on ...

    • Regional growth and income patterns, 1960-65 

      Martin, JP (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      This study owes its origins to the earlier research of Ross and Baker into regional income and employment patterns in Ireland and to the appearance of the Buchanan Report in 1969. These works have laid much of the groundwork ...

    • Price-change calculations based on 3 forms of input-output model - illustration from estimates of impact of equal pay on Irish industry 

      Henry, EW; Walsh, BM (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      The official Input-Output (I-O) Tables for 1964 provide us with a 17 sector model in Appendix Tables A1, A2 and A3. In this version of the model, similar imports are distributed along the rows of the transactions matrix ...

    • Kinship, neighbourhood and social change in Irish rural communities 

      Hannan, D (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)
      Rural communities in the West of Ireland, even in the most remote, and most traditional areas have experienced immense social organisational and cultural changes during the past twenty years. Indeed, in many respects, these ...

    • Encumbered estates court, Ireland, 1848-1849 

      Lane, PG (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)
      This study presents an account of the ;background of conditions in Ireland's thought, and legislative measures, to the establishment of an encumbered estates court in 1849.

    • Econometric study of British tourist expenditure in Ireland 

      Barry, Kevin; O' Hagan, John (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)
      The amount of research devoted to tourism is not commensurate with its economic importance. The reasons for this scarcity of research are numerous and mostly concern the inherent difficulties of the subject. The purpose ...