Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969-: Recent submissions
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Labor supply and commodity demands - an application to Irish data
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1987)Annual Irish data are used lo estimate a model which allows for the joint determination of commodity demands and labour supply. Consumer preferences are modelled by a cost function of the Gorman polar form which permits ... -
A 2nd-order factor-analysis of the reliability and validity of the 11 plus examination in Northern Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1987)In Northern Ireland the transition from primary to secondary education is a critical process since the type of secondary school attended is a powerful determinant of the life-chances of individuals. In Northern Ireland ... -
Towards an agricultural prices index for Ireland 1850-1914
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1987)An Irish agricultural prices index is presented for the period 1850-1914, based upon the shares of various agricultural products in total value added agricultural output. It supersedes a quasi-official construction of 1915 ... -
Dominant ideologies in Irish educational-thought - consensualism, essentialism and meritocratic individualism
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1987)Through the analysis of the works of Irish (the analysis is confined to the Republic of Ireland) educationalists (over the last 30 years) three prominent ideological paradigms are evident in the literature. The first of ... -
Measuring patterns of party support in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1987)There is no doubt that the use of 'sociological' classes rather than market research categories produces a clearer patterning of party support in Galway West. There is no reason to suppose that this finding would be any ... -
Familism in Irish capitalism in the 1950s
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1987)This article is concerned with the Ireland of the 1950s and with one segment of the Irish upper class - the Irish business elite. The importance of studying the 1950s lies in the fact that if there is to be an understanding ... -
Employers social insurance contributions and employment - reply
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)I do not accept Fagan ad Murphy's argument that my estimate of the employment effect is misleading. My estimate refers to the short run and it is, therefore, perfectly valid for the period to which it relates. The estimates ... -
Employers social insurance contributions and employment
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)Holmlund (1981) presents a simple model of the incidence of employers' social insurance contributions. Hughes (1985) applies this model to Irish data, and examines the employment effect of employers' social insurance ... -
An alternative measure of employment intensity
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)The input output tables in Eurostat (1983) are used to infer the total employment generated by final demand in 41 NACE Sectors in each of the 8 EEC countries in 1975. Average employment intensities (AEI) are then calculated ... -
Community policing in Cork - awareness, attitudes and correlates
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)Understanding of, and attitudes towards community policing were examined by a questionnaire survey in Cork in 1984. At that time, half of the respondents felt that local crime was at least a "fairly serious" problem, but ... -
Community security - the irish problem
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1986)Consideration of some theoretical literature on community involvement in crime control is useful in clarifying the ultimate objectives of such schemes. Characteristic of crime in Ireland is the high incidence of offences ... -
Trends in higher-education participation in Northern Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1989)This paper is concerned with the analysis of a recent cohort of higher education entrants from Northern Ireland. It examines the social and educational characteristics of these entrants in the light of data relating to ... -
Employment relationships in Irish counties 1881-1971
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1988)An autonomous sector in a county is one which does not depend primarily on conditions outside that sector in the same county. Other sectors in a county are induced by activity in the autonomous sectors. For Ireland, ... -
Modeling the demand for factors of production in the mechanical engineering industry of Northern Ireland, 1954-79
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1988)This paper estimates an econometric model of the demand for the factors of production using data available for the Mechanical Engineering industry in Northern Ireland. The primary aim is to demonstrate that it is possible ... -
Liberalization and capital flight
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1988)A two-period trade theoretic model is used to analyse the effects of liberalisation programmes in a financially repressed economy (where official bank loan and deposit rates are artificially low). Financial repression ... -
Interest and price parity and foreign-exchange market-efficiency - the Irish experience in the European monetary-system
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1988)Purchasing power parity, interest rate parity and the question of whether the forward exchange rate is an unbiased predictor of the future spot exchange rate are all important relationships underlying exchange rate theory. ... -
Exchange-rate dynamics and the term structure of interest-rates
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1988)This paper examines the nature of the relationship which exists between the dynamics of exchange rate adjustments and the term structure of interest rates. In the absence of anticipated economic disturbances, there exists ... -
The comparative performance of small manufacturing companies located in the mid west and Northern Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1988)Specific dimensions of the performance and characteristics of a matched sample of small manufacturing firms in the Mid West of Ireland and Northern Ireland are compared. The analysis examines comparative growth rates, ... -
Competition and control at work - rural miners and the labor process
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1988)For most of its short working life, the raining development at Tynagh, Co. Galway was characterised by `good? industrial relations. In explaining this phenomenon the authors of this paper suggest that while the structure ... -
The arts and section-32 of the 1984 Finance Act
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1988)Research on the economics of the arts has grown enormously in the last decade (see O'Hagan and Duffy, 1987). One area which has received particular attention is that of tax concessions to the arts (see, for example, Feld, ...
