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

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    • Redistribution of household income in ireland by taxes and benefits 

      Nolan, B (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      Precis: This study uses data published by the CSO based on the 1973 Household Budget Survey to look at the redistribution of income among households by taxes and benefits. The distribution of cash benefits, direct taxes, ...

    • Some problems of policy-related attitude surveys - with examples from the davis-sinnott report 

      Mccullagh, C (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      This paper offers a criticism of some of the problems involved in policy-related attitude surveys. It argues that the assumptions made in order to generate information useful to policy-makers are difficult to defend. The ...

    • The decline of irish industry in the 19th-century 

      Omalley, E (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      Official statistics published by the Department of the Environment (London) suggest that during the 1970s Northern Ireland changed from being the cheapest housing region in the United Kingdom to being the most expensive ...

    • The inflation of house prices in Northern Ireland in the 1970s 

      Fleming, M.C.; Nellis, J.G. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      Official statistics published by the Department of the Environment (London) suggest that during the 1970s Northern Ireland changed from being the cheapest housing region in the United Kingdom to being the most expensive ...

    • A new look at the irish land question 

      Solow, Bl (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      Behind the land question in nineteenth century Ireland lie two different conceptions of property and hence of landlord-tenant relations. One reflects communal notions and stresses tenants' prescriptive rights; the other ...

    • Role-imposition or role-improvisation - some theoretical principles 

      Powers, C (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      Two assumptions are made. First, role-improvisation and structural determination of role content are viewed as opposing processes inherent in all situations. Second, the relative importance of these processes is assumed ...

    • Localism, candidate selection and electoral preferences in ireland - the general-election of 1977 

      Marsh, M (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      Irish parties tend to choose parliamentary candidates who have strong local attachments. Party is known to be the dominant factor in electoral choice but many voters, particularly rural voters, are often said to prefer ...

    • Factor demand and factor substitution in selected sectors of the irish food-industry 

      Higgins, J (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      In this paper the degree of substitution between capital services, labour, material and fuel was estimated for the meat and milk processing sectors of the Irish food industry. The responsiveness of these inputs to price ...

    • A comparison of the bounds, beta-approximate, and exact variants of 2 tests for heteroscedasticity based on ordinary least-squares residuals 

      Harrison, Mj (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      Precis: This paper compares the small sample empirical size, power and incidence of inconclusiveness of the bounds tests for heteroscedasticity proposed by Szroeter (1978) and Harrison and McCabe (1979). It also examines ...

    • Who supported the land war - an aggregate-data analysis of irish agrarian discontent, 1879-1882 

      Orridge, Aw (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      Correlation and regression of aggregate data for Irish counties is used to investigate the social and economic environment of the Land League and the Land War between 1879 and 1882. Existing hypotheses are outlined, linked ...

    • Socioeconomic aspects of anti-semitism in ireland, 1880-1905 

      Moore, G (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      Sociological research in Ireland is committed to an unhealthy reliance on survey analysis tech-niques. The major defect of such an approach is that the insights of historical and comparative approaches are frequently absent. ...

    • Irish migration, all or nothing resolved 

      Keenan, Jg (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      Some issues concerning the data are first discussed. Various migration equations for Ireland are estimated and the coefficient differences explained. Despite having a large proportion of explained variation the coefficient ...

    • Monetarism in ireland - a simple statistical approach 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      This paper deals with the relationship in Ireland between money and prices during the period since 1960. It is shown that the causal relationship is from money to prices very much more than the other way about. Chain of ...

    • Input-substitution and technical change in irish agriculture - 1953-1977 

      Boyle, G. E. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      This paper seeks to find explanations for agriculture's changing resource structure over the past 25 years, using the framework of neoclassical production theory. The translog functional form was used to estimate the factor ...

    • The relationship between alternative population and migration series - a comment 

      Hughes, JG (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      In their recent paper on the derivation of annual population estimates Whelan and Keogh (1980) implicitly assume that the number on the Electoral Register refers to Apri l 15 ? the date on which the Register comes into ...

    • A note on the sectoral employment pattern 

      Oriordan, WK (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      The theory proposed by Cogan (1978) that the sectoral employment pattern is likely to reach a "steady state" is re-examined. It is suggested that there is no theoretical basis for such a state and that there is a considerable ...

    • Employment coefficients for Irish trade with extra-EEC countries - measurement and implications 

      McAleese, Dermot; Carey, Patrick (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      This paper estimates the likely direction and size of changes in manufacturing employment associated with expansion of Ireland's extra-EEC trade. These changes are likely to be negative for extra-EEC trade generally, ...

    • Societal disintegration in Northern-Ireland - fact or fiction 

      Heskin, K (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      Within the framework of these results there was indication of the growing importance of electrical and mechanical skills and improvements in labour productivity in changing the basis of Irish trade.It has been suggested ...

    • Outward looking policies and the changing basis of Irelands foreign-trade 

      Farley, Noel J.J. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)
      This paper uses two tests to examine the changing factor content of Irish trade between the mid-1950s and early 1970s. The results of the first test show that Ireland had a comparative advantage in primary goods over the ...

    • Monetary-policy with overshooting exchange-rates 

      Niehans, J (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)
      The advent of floating exchange rates has meant that international monetary theory has been subject to continuous testing. Using Switzerland as the example of a small open economy (SOE), three issues are considered. First, ...