http://hdl.handle.net/2262/62015 2013-05-20T19:20:34Z 2013-05-20T19:20:34Z McGregor, Pat http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60517 2011-11-04T12:17:00Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: “Insufficient for the support of a family”: wages on the public works during the Great Irish Famine Author: McGregor, Pat Abstract: This paper presents a model of the money wage paid on the public works during the Irish Famine. The administrators are assumed to minimise a cost function that includes the divergence from the target as well as the increase compared to the wage that current information is available on. Estimation reveals a lag of four weeks existed between price changes occurring and adjustment to the money wages. Most seriously, the administrators systematically failed to take full account of the extent of price changes.

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Layte, Richard Nolan, Brian http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60126 2011-10-14T09:50:06Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Equity in the utilisation of health care in Ireland Author: Layte, Richard; Nolan, Brian Abstract: This paper analyses the extent of equity of health service delivery across the income distribution in Ireland – that is the extent to which there is equal treatment for equal need irrespective of income. We find that almost all services, apart from dental and optician services, are used more by those at the lower end of the income distribution, but that this group also have the greatest need for health care. The comparison of health need to health care delivery across the income distribution without standardising for confounding factors suggests that those in higher income groups receive more health care for a given health status indicating inequity. However, need for health care is highest among the elderly and this group also tend to be at the bottom of the income distribution. Once we standardise for age, sex and location we find that hospital services are distributed equitably across the income distribution, whereas GP and prescription services tend to be pro-poor (used more by those with lower incomes for a given health status) and dental and optician services tend to be pro-rich (used more by those with higher incomes for a given health status).

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Gannon, Brenda Nolan, Brian http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60045 2011-10-12T09:02:08Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Inter-industry wage differentials in Ireland Author: Gannon, Brenda; Nolan, Brian Abstract: This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Ireland, taking advantage of access to a dataset that is uniquely suitable for this purpose, the 1996 Structure of Earnings Survey. This allows us to measure not simply overall differentials in the average wage across sectors, but also the extent to which these are associated with a range of employee, job, employer and sectoral characteristics. The results show that there are substantial differences in earnings across industrial sectors in Ireland, predominantly but not only reflecting differences in measured human capital of workers and attributes of their jobs. While unobserved individual and job characteristics may underpin the remaining differentials, efficiency wage or rent-sharing could also be playing a role. Including a range of firm and sectoral characteristics relevant to the latter does not markedly alter the scale of inter-industry differentials, but firm fixed effects seem important. The dispersion of wages across industries, controlling for observed employee, job and employer characteristics, is quite high in Ireland compared to other industrialised countries.

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Roper, Stephen http://hdl.handle.net/2262/59869 2011-10-06T09:31:58Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Job creation and destruction in Northern Ireland: 1973-1993 Author: Roper, Stephen Abstract: Job creation and destruction estimates are made for Northern Ireland manufacturing using the ARD database. International comparisons suggest job creation and destruction rates in Northern Ireland were below those elsewhere. Job turnover rates exhibit the standard properties, however, with counter-cyclical job destruction and pro-cyclical job creation. A number of other key results emerge. First, small firms are the only size band for which the net change in employment was positive. Second, job turnover in small firms is less cyclical than that in larger companies. Third, firm contraction and expansion were more important sources of job creation and destruction in Northern Ireland than in the UK as a whole.

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Gannon, Brenda Nolan, Brian http://hdl.handle.net/2262/59868 2011-10-06T09:24:22Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Disability and labour force participation in Ireland Author: Gannon, Brenda; Nolan, Brian Abstract: The extent and nature of participation in the labour market by persons affected by disability has a multitude of direct and indirect effects on their living standards and quality of life, and so is a critical area for investigation and policy concern. This paper seeks to quantify the effects of disability on labour force participation in Ireland for the first time. Using data from the Living in Ireland Survey, 2000 and the Quarterly National Household Survey Disability Module 2002, we look at the relationship between participation and self-reported disability. The results show that those individuals reporting a severely limiting condition have a much lower probability of participation in the labour force than others, and this continues to be the case having controlled for other characteristics such as age, education and marital status. The reporting of such conditions itself may not be exogenous, however, and this is a priority for further research.

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