Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 35, No. 2, Summer/Autumn, 2004 by Subject "Ireland"

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    • Disability and labour force participation in Ireland 

      Gannon, Brenda; Nolan, Brian (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2004)
      The extent and nature of participation in the labour market by persons affected by disability has a multitude of direct and indirect effects on their living standards and quality of life, and so is a critical area for ...

    • Equity in the utilisation of health care in Ireland 

      Layte, Richard; Nolan, Brian (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2004)
      This paper analyses the extent of equity of health service delivery across the income distribution in Ireland ? that is the extent to which there is equal treatment for equal need irrespective of income. We find that ...

    • ?Insufficient for the support of a family?: wages on the public works during the Great Irish Famine 

      McGregor, Pat (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2004)
      This paper presents a model of the money wage paid on the public works during the Irish Famine. The administrators are assumed to minimise a cost function that includes the divergence from the target as well as the increase ...

    • Inter-industry wage differentials in Ireland 

      Gannon, Brenda; Nolan, Brian (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2004)
      This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Ireland, taking advantage of access to a dataset that is uniquely suitable for this purpose, the 1996 Structure of Earnings Survey. This allows us to measure ...