The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, Spring, 2011
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The only game in town: Public Private Partnerships in the Irish water services sector
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) transfer significant responsibility for infrastructure and public service delivery to the private sector. This raises questions in relation to accountability in the context of PPP. An ... -
How are Irish households coping with their mortgage repayments? information from the Survey on Income and Living Conditions
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)This paper uses information contained within the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) to examine the ability of Irish households to sustain their mortgage repayments. We calculate mortgage repayment to income ... -
An economic analysis of the Public Transport Regulation Act, 2009
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)This paper analyses the Public Transport Regulation Act 2009, published on September 8, 2009. The Act provides for the regulation of public bus passenger services, changes the name of the Dublin Transport Authority to ... -
Estimating the impact of immigration on wages in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas (2003). Under this method, the labour market is divided into a number of skill cells, where the cells are ... -
Suicide in Ireland: the influence of alcohol and unemployment
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)We model the behaviour of the Irish suicide rate over the period 1968-2009 using the unemployment rate and the level of alcohol consumption as the principal explanatory variables. We find that alcohol consumption is a ...