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    • Social mobility and equality of opportunity 

      Breen, Richard (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)
      The idea of social mobility is closely linked to the concept of equality of opportunity: it is widely held that if there were greater equality of opportunity there would be more social mobility and, conversely, that more ...

    • The challenge of tax reform and expanding the tax base 

      Poterba, Peter (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)
      My topic today is the design of tax policy, and in particular the role of socalled ?tax expenditures? in income tax systems. It is a topic that is important not just in Ireland but in many other nations ? including the ...

    • The emergence of the entrepreneurial society 

      Audretsch, David B. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)
      The topic of my talk today is what I term the entrepreneurial society or the emergence of the entrepreneurial society, which suggests that something has changed. The Director and I were speaking on the way here about the ...

    • What have we learnt about pay for performance? 

      Prendergast, Canice (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)
      Governance is a central concern of economics. In much of economic activity, relevant principals (firms, voters, government agencies, and so on) delegate decisions to agents who may not have the interests of those ...