Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 08, No. 4, 1977 by Title

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    • Demand and supply functions for Irish exports of manufactures 

      O'Connell, T. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      In this paper, we specify and estimate some simple quarterly econometric models of Irish manufactured exports looking at the determinants of both the demand for, and the supply of, manufactured exports. The standard ...

    • Efficiency and size - comments and extensions 

      Todd, D. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      A recent contribution to this Review considered a number of measures of business efficiency and applied these to a sample of firms in the Irish Plastics Industry. The purpose of this note is to extend the analysis somewhat ...

    • Full-employment labor supply in ireland - 1954-1970 

      Slattery, D.G. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      In Ireland as in many other countries the attainment of full employment has become a central feature of government economic policy. In attempting to translate 'full employment' into quantitative terms it must be borne in ...

    • Irish gombeenman - re-incarnation or rehabilitation 

      Gibbon, Peter; Higgins, M.D. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      Mr. Kennedy (1977) makes four main criticisms of our paper. These will be discussed in turn. In the process, we will be concerned not only to defend our original position, but, where possible, to correct and clarify it.