Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969-: Recent submissions
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Population trends in late 19th and early 20th-century ireland - a local study
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1984)Abstract: The investigation of Irish demographic trends in the half century following the Famine has generally been conducted using figures relating to large areas. In this paper an attempt is made to examine the applicability ... -
Components of growth in current public-expenditure on education and health
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1984)Abstract: This paper examines the growth in the GDP share of current public expenditure on national, vocational and university education in Ireland between 1961 and 1979 in terms of four factors: transfer changes, demographic ... -
Components of growth of income-maintenance expenditure in ireland 1951-1979
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1984)Abstract: This paper examines the growth in the share of GDP of four income maintenance programmes(old age pensions, children's allowances, unemployment benefits and sickness cash benefits) for the period 1951-1979 in terms ... -
House prices, inflation and the mortgage market
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of house prices using quarterly Irish data over the period 1971-1980. Evidence is provided to support the hypotheses that real house prices are significantly influenced by the cost ... -
Marital choice and quality of relationships - a research note on hypotheses and sampling
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: The apparent rise in the number of breakdowns in marriage in Ireland is causing concern. Little or no research has been undertaken to enquire into causes of breakdown peculiar to Ireland. The existing literature ... -
Education finance and imperfections in information
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: The paper introduces a model of the educational decision with endogenous imperfect information of the Arrow discrimination type. The effects of an element of income contingency in the finance of education is ... -
Religious vocation as a latent identity for school principals
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: This paper is concerned with studying schools as organisations. The effects of religious vocation as a latent identity of school principals is central to the analysis. Some of the organisational processes of ... -
The telesis report - a review essay
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Since 1979, the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) has been carrying out a broad re-examination of the package of government policies used to promote Ireland's industrial development. NESC Report No. 64, A Review ... -
Input-output multipliers in a small open-economy - an application to tourism
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: The small open economy model implies short-run supply constraints in traded and partially traded sectors ? which could significantly reduce sectoral multiplier values. As an illustration, this paper estimates ... -
Comments on the weighted regression approach to missing values
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: These comments relate to those methods of dealing with missing values of explanatory variables in regression analysis that first "complete" the data by inserting estimates derived from regressions of explanatory ... -
The reliability and validity of irish strike data and statistics
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: This paper focuses on the problems associated with the measurement of strike phenomena and deals particularly with the three principal dimensions of strikes, namely, strike frequency, number of workers involved ... -
Physician-induced demand for medical-care - irish general-practitioners
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: In a cross-section study based on a national household sample survey, return visits with general practitioners (GPs) vary with the ratio of GPs to population. Thus, higher physician supply, which by itself would ... -
Mild mental handicap and special-education need - a social-process perspective
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: The findings to be reported are those of a study of the process of ascertainment as mildly and mentally handicapped within the national school system in Ireland. The purpose of the study was to explore the operation ... -
Political-attitudes, partisanship and social-structures in northern-ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: This paper applies multivariate analysis to 1978 survey data to examine the attitude structure of the Northern Ireland electorate and its effect on partisanship. Four political attitudes are extracted: two communal ... -
Commercialization in west of ireland agriculture in the 1890s
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: The "sale of farm products ratio" indicator is used in this paper to establish the extent to which the agricultural economy of the West of Ireland and, in particular, the economy of the smaller landholders was ... -
Fisher, R.A.. - a memoir
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Since my mathematical statistics, such as they were, are the greatest thing in my life, R.A. Fisher, their finest exponent, was the greatest man in my life, though I had little personal contact with him. There were very ... -
Geary,robert,charles - an appreciation
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Roy Geary, Ireland's greatest statistician, died in Dublin on 8 February 1983, after a long life devoted to mathematical statistics. He was born on 11 April , 1896 and was educated at University College, Dublin, 1913-1918, ... -
A symmetric alternative to geary and john expression of product changes
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Change in a product between 2 states as the symmetrical sum of changes in each of its factors
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)This paper is concerned with the algebraic problem of expressing the change in a product purely in terms of changes in its factors; denoting two states by 1 and 2 (indicated by superscripts) and defining variables X; (i = ... -
The media view of the 1979 european election campaign
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: This paper argues that the television presentation of the first direct election to the European Parliament in Ireland was more domestic in orientation than either the parties' own presentations on television or ...
