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

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    • Nationalist elites, Irish voters and Irish political-development - comparative perspective 

      Garvin, Tom (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1977)
      In this essay it is argued that the Irish political system, although it is usually seen as a deviant case among Western polities, is best viewed in a broader comparative perspective - that of decolonialising political ...

    • Micro-economic study of earnings in Ireland 

      Walsh, B.M.; Whelan, B.J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)
      This article, which is a first attempt to analyse Irish earnings data at the level of the individual, is based on a human capital approach. It shows that about half the variance in individuals' earnings can be accounted ...

    • Foreign direct investment and emergence of a dual economy 

      Stewart, J.C. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)
      Studies of foreign direct investment in Ireland have concentrated on the absence of linkages and the high proportion of output exported. This paper analyses a sample of manufacturing firms in the Mid-West Region to highlight ...

    • Organizational change - strategy and complexity 

      MacKechnie, G. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)
      Research on organisational change has rarely treated the nature of the change as a variable. This can be done by differentiating changes in terms of complexity. By treating both change complexity and change strategy as ...

    • Industrial specialization and trade - Northern Ireland and Republic 

      McAleese, D. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)
      There are many ways of studying the effects of protection on the industrial structure and trade flows of the protected economy. In this paper, we do so by comparing certain features of the economies of Northern Ireland and ...

    • Linear-programming models for development planning in Northern Ireland 

      Glass, J.C.; Kiountouzis, E. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)
      This study presents a linear programming model based on the recently published input-output tables for the Northern Ireland economy. The potential usefulness of such a planning model is demonstrated by the rich range of ...

    • Built-in flexibility of taxation and stability when tax liabilities respond with a time lag 

      Smyth, D.J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      Given tax rates, tax revenues rise as income rises. This property of a tax system is known as 'built-in flexibility of taxation' and it is widely regarded as a stabilising force. The present paper analyses a model in which ...

    • Distribution of personal wealth in Ireland - comment 

      Harrison, M.J.; Nolan, S. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      This paper focuses attention on two aspects of P.M.Lyons' work on the distribution of personal wealth in Ireland. First, using a statistical procedure devised from some well-known results, the validity of his assumption ...

    • Appropriate measure of unemployment in an Irish Phillips Curve 

      Geary, Patrick T.; Jones, Roderick M. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      A generalisation of the Phillips curve for a developing country, recently proposed by Modigliani and Tarentelli (1973), is modified and applied to the Irish economy for the period 1953-72 using annual data. The results ...

    • Factorial ecology of Dublin - preliminary investigation 

      Brady, J.; Parker, A.J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      Dublin

    • Economics of crime in Republic of Ireland - exploratory paper 

      Bacon, Peter; O'Donoghue, Martin (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      This paper explores the possibility of applying models developed elsewhere to an analysis of rising crime rates in Ireland. In particular, it seeks to establish optimal levels for expenditure on controlling crime against ...

    • Religion and occupational class in Northern Ireland 

      Aunger, Edmund A. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)
      The author constructs economic profiles of Protestants and Catholics based upon an examination of occupational and, to a lesser extent, industrial characteristics. In this task the Hall-Jones scale is used as a guide to ...

    • Built-in flexibility of taxation and stability when tax liabilities respond with a time lag .2. Reply 

      Smyth, D.J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)
      In my earlier paper (Smyth, 1975b) I combined a distributed lag or permanent income consumption function with a lagged tax function. Bradley (1976) disputes my finding that short, two-period, oscillations may result and ...

    • Built-in flexibility of taxation and stability when tax liabilities respond with a time lag .1. Comment 

      Bradley, James F. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)
      In the October 1975 issue of The Economic and Social Review, D. J . Smyth examined the built-in stability of a system when tax liabilities are a lagged function of income. Taking an unlagged and a distributed lag consumption ...

    • Demand for food in Ireland 1947-1973 

      O'Riordan, W.K. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)
      This paper attempts to extend the work of Casey on the demand for food in Ireland by investigating the validity of his method and by using more refined techniques of computation and the more extensive data now available. ...

    • World prices and inflationary process in a small open-economy - case of Ireland 

      Geary, Patrick T. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)
      The standard wage-price model of inflation and a variant of Parkin's (1973) inflation model, both directly incorporating world prices, are applied to the Irish economy for the period 1953-74. This approach does not allow ...

    • Lags in transmission of inflation - some preliminary estimates 

      Geary, Patrick T. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)
      This paper provides some preliminary estimates of the structure of the lags in the relationships between the quarterly proportionate rates of change of the consumer price index, wholesale price index, export unit value ...

    • Towards identification of educational priority areas in Dublin 

      Breathnach, Agnes (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)
      This paper is concerned first with the causes of educational disadvantage, secondly, with the examination of certain characteristics of the home backgrounds of disadvantaged children, thirdly, and especially, it attempts ...

    • Labor-force effects of 1967-68 changes in education policy in Irish republic 

      Tussing, A.D. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)
      In 1968 the so-called 'free' secondary education scheme was introduced, and mintermediate and leaving certificate courses were added in vocational schools. This article examines the effect on the labour force of these ...

    • Party loyalty at referenda and general elections: evidence from recent Irish contests 

      McCarthy, C.; Ryan, T. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)
      The paper explores the extent of voter loyalty to party at different kinds of electoral contest. Voter transition matrices are computed using an estimation technique based on a quadratic programming algorithm. The data ...