The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 05, No. 1, 1973
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Are Irelands social security payments too small - rejoinder
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)Informed discussion of this important topic is to be welcomed, i f not necessarily on the issues, or in the tone, of the foregoing Comment (or of this rejoinder). The purpose of the Comment is stated at the outset to be ... -
Are Irelands social security payments too small - comment
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)The purpose of this short article is two-fold. First, to cast some doubt on the way in which Dr. Geary reached his conclusions concerning social security payments in Ireland and, secondly, to extend the study to take ... -
Elasticity of demand for petrol in Ireland - reply
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)I thank Dr. Arthur for his interesting and thoughtful comment. I am afraid that he rather misquotes me when he says that I estimated the elasticity as being between -1.2 and -1-7. My interpretation (stated in the conclusions) ... -
Elasticity of demand for petrol in Ireland - comment
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)In an article in this journal (April 1972) W . K. O'Riordan estimated the price elasticity of petrol to be between minus 1.2 and minus 1.7. These values are surprisingly high. Petrol is expensive but the other major expenses ... -
Intra-unionist disputes in Northern Ireland house of commons, 1921-72
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)This is a report on a research project carried out in 1972, and again in 1973, by students taking the special subject in the Government of Ireland, in the Political Science Department at the Queen's University of Belfast. ... -
Poverty research and policy analysis in United States - implications for Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)Poverty in Ireland is frequently alluded to, by journalists, politicians, and social scientists. Though its existence is obvious and widespread, in fact not much is known statistically or analytically about Irish poverty; ... -
Some determinants of labour mobility in Northern Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)Recent planning throughout Europe has increasingly emphasised the importance of growth centres in development strategies. New and expanded towns are proposed not solely as solutions to problems of overspill, congestion and ... -
Relative efficiency of regression using original data or first differences - case of autocorrelated disturbances
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)In two recent articles, Geary and Tillman have compared the efficiency of using data in absolute form or in the form of first differences in regression analysis of economic time series. Both authors take a highly unfavourable ... -
Money market strategy or monetary aggregates - analysis of recent federal reserve policy
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)In recent years the critics o f monetary policy have placed increasing emphasis on the need to control monetary aggregates. This emphasis has resulted from what appears to be a bias on the part of the Federal Reserve in ... -
Relative efficiency of RAS versus least squares methods of updating input-output structures, as adjudged by application to Irish data
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)The following paper is both theoretical and empirical, being concerned with RAS and Least Squares (LS) methods of updating Irish inter-industry structures from 1964 to 1968. Part 1 has a resume of the published papers [1] ... -
Identification of cause and effect in simple least squares regression
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)Given data ( X , Yt, t=i, z, . . . , T, can we distinguish which variable is causal?