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

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    • A note on demand elasticities for energy imports 

      Reilly, Barry (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)
      Annual Irish data on fuel imports are used to estimate inter-fuel substitution models. Both a four- and a three-input classification are employed in the estimation of a translog cost function. Restrictions implied by ...

    • Portfolio equilibrium and monetary policy in Ireland 

      Leddin, Anthony (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)
      The introduction of exchange controls in 1978 and the exchange rate uncertainty associated with Ireland's entry into the European Monetary System (EMS) in 1979 gave rise to the possibility of a reduction in the degree of ...

    • Ireland - politics with some social bases an interpretation based on aggregate data 

      Laver, Michael (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)
      Social scientists are currently forced to rely on aggregate data and commercial opinion polls when they analyse the social bases of party choice in Ireland. The first of a pair of articles, this paper deals with a re-analysis ...

    • Estimates of the religious composition of Northern Ireland local-government districts in 1981 and change in the geographical pattern of religious composition between 1971 and 1981 

      Compton, Paul A.; Power, John P. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)
      The religious composition recorded in the 1981 census of population is unreliable because of the non-enumeration of individuals and non-response to the census question on religion. Two methods are described in the paper ...

    • Verdoorn law - a retrospective view 

      Bradley, John; Prendergast, Canice (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 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 ...

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

      Kenneally, Martin; Finn, Mary (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 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 ...

    • Some family characteristics of Irish juvenile-offenders 

      O'Mahony, Paul; Cullen, Rosemary; O'Hora, Mary James (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1985)
      Two matched groups are compared, 100 industrial trainees and 870 juvenile offenders, who comprised the total population of Ireland's one Juvenile Open Centre during a 4-year period. Variables examined include family size, ...

    • Intermarriage, conflict and social control in Ireland - the decree 'ne temere' 

      Lee, Raymond M. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1985)
      The decree `Ne temere? of 1908 by which the Roman Catholic Church has, until recently, governed the marriage of one of its members to someone who is not a Roman Catholic has had attributed to it a number of deleterious ...

    • Impact of EEC enlargement on Ireland trade in manufactured goods 

      Gormley, Patrick J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1985)
      The study examines the likely impact on Ireland's trade in manufactures of the accessions of Greece, Portugal and Spain to the EECSITC3-digit trade data (for 1978-1983) for manufactures are used to compute two indices: ...

    • Impact of EEC enlargement on Ireland trade in manufactured goods 

      Gormely, Patrick J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1985)
      The study examines the likely impact on Ireland's trade in manufactures of the accessions of Greece, Portugal and Spain to the EECSITC3-digit trade data (for 1978-1983) for manufactures are used to compute two indices: ...

    • The cross-channel migration of Irish travelers 

      Gmelch, George; Gmelch, Sharon Bohn (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 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 ...

    • Clientelism and careerism in Irish local-government - the persecution of civil-servants revisited 

      Collins, C.A. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1985)
      The relationship between elected politicians, local civil servants and the public has been a standard topic of Irish political science for decades. The usual characterisation of the relationship between the voter and the ...

    • The strike-proneness of public-sector organizations 

      Kelly, Aidan; Brannick, Teresa (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1985)
      Through the use of a unique and original data bank on Irish strike data, this paper analyses strike trends at a disaggregated level, using degree of organisation involvement in strikes as the focal point of analysis. We ...

    • Calculation of gini and theil inequality coefficients for Irish household incomes in 1973 and 1980 

      Murphy, D.C. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1985)
      The exact values of Gini and Theil inequality coefficients calculated on the basis of discrete data are provided for direct, gross, disposable and final (i.e., after all taxes and State benefits) Irish household incomes ...

    • An evaluation of the changing religious composition of the population of Northern Ireland 

      Compton, Paul A. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1985)
      It is customary to think of the population of Northern Ireland as being composed of one third Roman Catholics and two thirds Protestants. This convention should now be revised, however, because of the rapid growth of the ...

    • Societal disintegration in Northern Ireland - a 5-year update 

      Heskin, Ken (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1985)
      The hypothesis that society in Northern Ireland is in imminent danger of collapse as a consequence of the prolonged conflict there is tested using trends in crime from 1960-1983 as an index of such an occurrence. Comparisons ...

    • Community policing - a critique of recent proposals 

      McCullagh, Ciaran (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1985)
      In this article the proposals by the Association for Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, for a scheme of Community Policing, are outlined and discussed. Their innovatory nature is recognised but a number of problems - the ...

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

      Kearney, Colm (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 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 ...

    • Factors related to level of educational-attainment in Ireland 

      Greaney, Vincent; Kellaghan, Thomas (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1985)
      In this paper we comment on a number of aspects of the three preceding papers which were written in response to our study, Equality of Opportunity in Irish Schools (Greaney and Kellaghan, 1984). We are pleased that equality ...

    • Does Irish education approach the meritocratic ideal - a logistic analysis 

      Raftery, Adrian E.; Hout, Michael (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1985)
      The conclusion that the Irish educational system is approaching the meritocratic ideal that was advanced by Greaney and Kellaghan (1984) is re-examined using the same data but a different methodology. A logistic regression ...