http://hdl.handle.net/2262/57823 2013-06-19T07:21:04Z 2013-06-19T07:21:04Z Breen, Richard http://hdl.handle.net/2262/66563 2013-05-14T14:26:40Z 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Assessing the effectiveness of training and temporary employment schemes: some results from the youth labour market Author: Breen, Richard Abstract: This paper suggests some ways in which labour market programmes of training and temporary employment should be evaluated. Essentially such programmes should be evaluated relative to the counter factual: what would have happened to participants had they not participated? The paper discusses the problems of modelling this counter factual and applies the resulting methods to data on a cohort of school leavers followed over a five and a half year period during the late 1980s.

1991-01-01T00:00:00Z McCullagh, Ciaran http://hdl.handle.net/2262/66562 2013-05-14T14:26:09Z 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A tie that blinds: family and ideology in Ireland Author: McCullagh, Ciaran Abstract: This paper examines the origins of the role of the family as a social symbol in Irish society. The source, it argues, is in the nature of the inequalities that were present in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland. These were not simply through classes but also through families. The ideology of the family emerged to deny and to displace the tensions created by the nature of these kinds of inequalities.

1991-01-01T00:00:00Z McKillop, D. G. Glass, J. C. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/66561 2013-05-14T14:25:33Z 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The structure of production in Irish agriculture: a multiple-input multiple-output analysis Author: McKillop, D. G.; Glass, J. C. Abstract: The production structure of Irish agriculture is analysed empirically via a multiple-input multiple-output translog cost function model. As earlier work in this area was restricted to singleoutput, constant-returns-to-scale models, the current study extends this work by investigating empirically non-constant returns to scale and cost complementarity between products in a multiple-output context, as well as providing hypothesis tests for homotheticity, for constant returns to scale, and for quasi-fixity of outputs. The cost model also provides estimates of the annual elasticities of substitution between inputs, the annual own- and cross-price elasticities of factor demand, and the annual rate of Hicks-neutral technical change.

1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Whelan, Karl http://hdl.handle.net/2262/66560 2013-05-14T14:24:57Z 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Ricardian equivalence and the Irish consumption function: the evidence re-examined Author: Whelan, Karl Abstract: The Ricardian Equivalence hypothesis states that economic agents perceive the future tax liabilities implicit in government debt issue and thus that increasing government expenditure partially crowds out private sector consumption through its effects on perceived permanent income. Thus, Ricardian equivalence implies that not only does a contraction of government expenditure provoke offsetting effects on aggregate demand but that it also leads to an increase in indirect tax revenues, thus setting in train a relatively painless cycle of debt reduction. Moore (1987) has presented results, based on tests from US literature, which he concluded provided strong evidence in favour of the hypothesis. Walsh (1988) confirmed that Moore's favoured econometric result was robust to data revisions and changes in data definition. Furthermore, Giavazzi and Pagano (1990) have discussed the notion of government spending reductions increasing private consumption to suggest a demandside explanation of Ireland's post-1987 experience of fiscal retrenchment combined with economic recovery while McAleese (1990) has referred to Moore's results in a similar context.

1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Barry, Frank Bradley, John http://hdl.handle.net/2262/66559 2013-05-14T14:24:23Z 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: On the causes of Ireland's unemployment Author: Barry, Frank; Bradley, John Abstract: This paper attempts to account for the rise in Irish unemployment between 1970 and 1987. To this end a fully articulated medium-term model of the economy is employed, in contrast to the four equation model of the labour market adopted by Newell and Symons (1990) in their recent study on the topic. The proximate causes identified in both cases include the swings in domestic fiscal policy, demographic factors, and the shocks which buffeted the world economy. Our conclusions differ quite sharply from theirs, however, and the reasons for these differences are explored.

1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Bradley, John Fitzgerald, John Kearney, Ida http://hdl.handle.net/2262/66558 2013-05-14T14:23:53Z 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Irish market services sector: an econometric investigation Author: Bradley, John; Fitzgerald, John; Kearney, Ida Abstract: Using new time series data a structural econometric model of a three way disaggregation of the market services sector is constructed. The elasticities of demand for the factors of production (capital and labour) in two of the sub-sectors were found to be moderate in size with elasticities proving rather small in transport and communications. While prices, in the long run, are set as a mark-up on costs, in two of the sub-sectors short-term pricing decisions were found to be significantly affected by capacity utilisation.

1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Shortall, Sally http://hdl.handle.net/2262/66557 2013-05-14T14:23:18Z 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The dearth of data on Irish farm wives: a critical review of the literature Author: Shortall, Sally Abstract: This paper calls attention to the paucity of knowledge and statistical data on the activities of Irish farm wives. The richest sources of information are the anthropological and sociological studies of Irish rural life which began in the 1930s. A critical review of these is undertaken. The limited gender analysis provided by these studies are identified and discussed.

1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Tovey, Hilary http://hdl.handle.net/2262/66556 2013-05-14T14:22:45Z 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: "Of Cabbages and Kings": restructuring in the Irish food industry Author: Tovey, Hilary Abstract: The food processing industry in Ireland has become more concentrated, diversified, and internationalised in recent years. To date, most Irish discussions have tended to treat the food industry as part of agriculture, assuming a consensus of interests around its development between farmers and industry managers. This paper questions that assumption, drawing on international studies of vertical integration in food production to explore the effects of structural change in the industry for farmers, and to a lesser extent, for industry employees and food consumers.

1991-01-01T00:00:00Z O'Rourke, Kevin http://hdl.handle.net/2262/66555 2013-05-14T13:39:08Z 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Commercial policy and the current account: A Mussa-Neary approach Author: O'Rourke, Kevin Abstract: The paper examines the effect of commercial policies on the current account for the case of a small open economy, in which capital is sector-specific in the short run but mobile in the long run. In the context of a two period model, trade liberalisation increases income by more in the long run than in the short run; consumption smoothing thus implies that the economy runs an external deficit in the short run. The analysis considers both tariff and quota liberalisation, and looks at the implications of wage rigidity.

1991-01-01T00:00:00Z O'Hare, Aileen Whelan, Christopher T. Commins, Patrick http://hdl.handle.net/2262/66554 2013-05-14T13:38:09Z 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The development of an Irish census-based social class scale Author: O'Hare, Aileen; Whelan, Christopher T.; Commins, Patrick Abstract: This paper outlines the reasons for, and steps taken, to develop an Irish census-based social class scale. The willing participation of the Central Statistics Office in reorganising its occupational categories to devise this scale marks an innovative contribution to social research. The resulting classification has a validity in an Irish context beyond that of alternative scales and should be an asset to researchers in facilitating a more comprehensive and revealing analysis of census occupational data than has hitherto been feasible. The scale is based on the neo-Weberian concept of class and has six categories.

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