Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, January, 1990 by Title

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    • Measuring poverty in Ireland: a comment 

      Mac Carthaigh, Seosamh (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      In Callan, Hannan, Nolan and Whelan (1989), the ESRI team attempt to defend the use of "relative income thresholds" as measures of poverty. The argument here will be that there is a lack of correspondence between the ...

    • Measuring poverty in Ireland: reply 

      Callan, Tim; Hannan, Damian F.; Nolan, Brian; Whelan, Brendan J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      MacCarthaigh makes three points with respect to the measurement of poverty, drawing on the work of Stein Ringen. We deal with these in turn, and attempt to match his comment for succinctness ? the issues are discussed in ...

    • Measuring the female labour supply: conceptual and procedural problems in Irish official statistics 

      Fahey, Tony (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      This paper examines some problems which reduce the usefulness of Irish labour statistics as measures of women's, particularly married women's, labour activities. These problems arise both at a conceptual level ? principally ...

    • Socio-economic mortality differentials in Ireland 

      Nolan, Brian (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      Differences in mortality rates between socio-economic groups for Ireland are analysed, using the standard methodology which has been extensively applied in other countries. This involves relating data on deaths by ...