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Can Policy Improve Our Financial Decision-Making?
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Capital Statistics for Irish Manufacturing Industry
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Carbon Tax Scenarios and their Effects on the Irish Energy Sector
(ESRI, 20/09/2011)In this paper we use annual time series data from 1960 to 2008 to estimate the long run price and income elasticities underlying energy demand in Ireland. The Irish economy is divided into five sectors: residential, ... -
Certain Aspects of Non-Agricultural Unemployment in Ireland
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Changes in income distributions and the role of tax-benefit policy during the Great Recession: an international perspective
(Wiley, 2016-06-09)In this paper, we examine the impact of the economic crisis and the policy reaction on inequality and relative poverty in four European countries: France, Germany, Ireland and the UK. The period examined, 2008–13, was one ... -
The Changing Workplace
(ESRI, 2011)How are Irish workplaces changing? Recent reports give a detailed picture, based on two nationally representative surveys ? one of employers and another of employees ? carried out in 2009. These surveys replicate many ... -
Charging for Public Health Services in Ireland: Why and How?
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Checking the Price Tag on Catastrophe: The Social Cost of Carbon Under Non-linear Climate Response
(ESRI, 29/06/2011)Research into the social cost of carbon emissions ? the marginal social damage from a tonne of emitted carbon ? has tended to focus on ?best guess? scenarios. Such scenarios generally ignore the potential for low-probability, ... -
Choice, Price and Service Characteristics in the Irish Broadband Market
(ESRI, 15/05/2012)Using detailed plan-level data, this paper examines the choice, price and quality of broadband services available to consumers in Ireland over time. We find modest geographical (county level) variation in broadband services. ... -
Choice, price and service characteristics in the Irish broadband market
(2013)Using detailed plan-level data, this paper examines the choice, price and quality of broadband services available to consumers in Ireland over time. We find modest geographical (county level) variation in broadband services. ... -
Choices and Challenges: Moving from Junior Cycle to Senior Cycle Education
(The Liffey Press in association with ESRI, NCCA and Department of Education & Skills, 09/09/2011)This study examines the experiences of young people as they make the transition from junior cycle (lower secondary) to senior cycle (upper secondary) education. It is part of a series of reports which explore stu- dent ... -
Civic and political engagement among young adults in Ireland
(ESRI, 2023-11-14)International research has shown that civic engagement, that is, volunteering in local services, can benefit both young people and their communities, while political engagement can strengthen a society’s democratic culture. ... -
Clean Air Together Dublin: impact on air quality awareness, attitudes and behaviour
(ESRI, 2023-10-17)Clean Air Together (CAT) is a citizen science project where people voluntarily sign up to measure levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution in their local area. In this study, we assessed the impact of CAT on awareness, ... -
The Climate Change Response Bill 2010: An Assessment
(ESRI, 25/01/2011)Climate change is an important problem. It would be desirable to have legislation that would put Ireland on a low-cost and equitable trajectory to a zero-carbon economy. The draft Climate Change Response Bill 2010 will not ...