Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969-: Recent submissions

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    • Quantitative estimates of trade liberalisation - methods and results 

      McAleese, D (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
      The economic benefits of trade liberalisation are conventionally divided into two parts: static gains and dynamic gains. Static gains refer to the advantages of increased specialisation arising from easier access to ...

    • Determinants of personal savings in ireland - econometric inquiry 

      Kennedy, Kieran A.; Dowling, Brendan R. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 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 ...

    • Inter-generational social mobility and individual differences among dubliners 

      Hart, I; O' Sullivan, B (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
      The values of a culture are indicated by the personal qualities accompanying social success within it. Our object is to reveal some of the values of Dublin society by examining the relationship between certain personal ...

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

      Walsh, B.M. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 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 ...

    • Short-run employment functions for Irish manufacturing 

      Smyth, D.J.; McMahon, P.C. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      Cyclical fluctuations in employment are a major concern of policy makers. When an industry's output changes, the level of employment also changes - but usually only with a time lag. Sensible policy and economic planning ...

    • Application of Rotterdam demand system to Irish data 

      O'Riordan, W.K. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      A demand model which works in logarithmic first differences is applied to data from the Irish economy to estimate price and income elasticities. Six commodity-groups are used. The results are, on the whole, reasonable and ...

    • Variables controlling elicitation and suppression of subvocal defence mechanism 

      MacCann Haslett, D. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 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 ...

    • Simple approach to production functions via factor costs 

      Henry, E.W. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      Some common ground between input-output accounting and Cobb-Douglas (C.D.) production functions is explored. The problem of how to express value added as a function of labour, capital stock and time, is re-stated. For a ...

    • Technical change in Northern Ireland manufacturing 1950-1968 - comment 

      Glass, J.C. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      Recently in this Review, McCulIough (1974) has presented a useful and interesting analysis of technical change in Northern Ireland manufacturing during the period 1950-1968. A major part of his analysis consisted of ...

    • Leontief paradox and United Kingdom patterns of trade in manufactures 

      Davies, R. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      The Heckscher-Ohlin model is concerned mainly with the causes and structure of international trade. According to this model trade arises because countries possess factors of production in different proportions. This leads ...

    • Irish government re-observed 

      Farrell, B. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      In the last paragraph of his most recent work (Chubb 1975) the doyen of Irish political scientists modifies only slightly a judgement originally advanced in 1964. At that time, prompted by Professor Brian Chapman's sharp ...

    • Statistical analysis of revisions to Irish national accounts 

      Ruane, F. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 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 ...

    • Estimation of short-run effects of fiscal policy in Ireland, 1960-1970 

      Norton, D. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      Apart from input-output studies, little effort appears to have been made to construct general-purpose macro-economic models of the Irish economy. A paper by Brendan Walsh is one exception. (See his "Econometric Macro-Model ...

    • Political opposition in Northern Ireland - National Democratic Party, 1965-1970 

      McAllister, I. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      This article is a study of the role of the National Democratic Party in minority politics in Ulster between 1965 and 1970. The NDP established three principles of crucial significance for the later development of minority ...

    • Estate duty wealth estimates and mortality multiplier 

      Lyons, P.M. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      Mortality multipliers are used in conjunction with estate duty data in many countries to estimate wealth distribution. Among the possible deficiencies of this approach is the fact that the estimates are dependent on the ...

    • Absenteeism at national school - educational, medical and social aspects 

      Hart, I. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      This study of a small sample of national school absentees suggests that such absentees are characterised by high levels of economic and emotional insecurity, and by educational retardation. It thus supports the control ...

    • Cost of capital to Irish industry 

      Geary, P.T.; Walsh, B.M.; Copeland, J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      This study reviews the theoretical background to recent discussions of the measurement of the cost of capital. Particular attention is paid to the correct specification of tax variables (including depreciation, allowances, ...

    • Productivity, prices, and factor shares in Irish manufacturing industry 1953-70 

      Sutton, J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      The share of wages and salaries in the net output of manufacturing industry over the period 1953-70 is shown in Fig. 1. The upward trend of the earlier years was reversed after 1957, and the share declined fairly.steadily ...

    • Testing quasi-perfect mobility model for intergenerational data - international comparisons 

      Iutaka, S.; Bloomer, B.F.; Burke, R.E.; Wolowyna, O. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      The study of social stratification and social mobility seems to be experiencing a revival of interest in recent years. The first studies on a national level were carried out in the decade following World War II, with the ...

    • Determinants of establishment size in Irish manufacturing industries - some notes on Irish case 1931-1972 

      Farley, Noel J.J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      In recent times economic writing has examined the questions of what determines estabhshment size in manufacturing industries and whether establishment size has increased over time. In 1952 J. Jewkes argued that there was ...