http://hdl.handle.net/2262/62025 2017-11-03T02:51:21Z 2017-11-03T02:51:21Z Hynes, Stephen Buckley, Cathal Van Rensburg, Tom http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61748 2016-09-09T18:48:39Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Recreational pursuits on marginal farm land: a discrete-choice model of Irish farm commonage recreation Hynes, Stephen; Buckley, Cathal; Van Rensburg, Tom In the last decade the demand for rural recreation has increased in Ireland as the population has become increasingly urbanised. Increased affluence, mobility and changing values have also brought new demands with respect to landscape, conservation, heritage and recreation, with a greater emphasis on consumption demands for goods and services in rural areas. This paper?s contribution to the understanding of outdoor recreational pursuits in Ireland is based on the estimation of the first farmland recreation demand function. We use this empirical work to investigate the more general conflict between countryside recreational pursuits and farming activity. Through the estimation of a travel cost model, the study derives the mean willingness to pay of the average outdoors enthusiast using a farm commonage site in Co. Galway, Ireland and an estimate of the gross economic value of the site as a recreational resource. The result indicates the high value of Irish farmland from a recreational amenity perspective. Paper presented at the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Irish Economic Association, Bunclody, Co. Wexford, 2006

2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Borooah, Vani K. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60948 2016-09-09T18:48:40Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Health and wealth in the North of Ireland: is there a ?social gradient? to health outcomes? Borooah, Vani K. This paper investigates using data on 2,700 persons in the North of Ireland, whether there is a social gradient to health, both with respect to general health (self-assessed health status; long-term limiting illness; the existence of a health problem) and with respect to specific illnesses (asthma; arthritis; back pain; blood pressure problem; heart problem; mental illness). The evidence suggests that people who live in poor housing (for example, damp houses with inadequate heating) are more likely to be in bad health, in respect of both general health and specific ailments, than persons living in good housing. There is also evidence that persons without educational qualifications are more likely to be in bad health than persons who have educational qualifications. Lastly, the results point to the fact that higher levels of household income are associated with better health outcomes. If one defines the ?social gradient? in terms of these three factors ? housing quality, education qualifications, and income level ? then the results suggest that people?s health outcomes depend upon their position on the social ladder. Paper presented at the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Irish Economic Association, Bunclody, Co. Wexford 2006

2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Bond, Derek Harrison, Michael J. O'Brien, Edward J. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60165 2016-09-09T18:48:51Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Demand for money: a study in testing time series for long memory and nonlinearity Bond, Derek; Harrison, Michael J.; O'Brien, Edward J. This paper draws attention to the limitations of the standard unit root/cointegration approach to economic and financial modelling, and to some of the alternatives based on the idea of fractional integration, long memory models, and the random field regression approach to nonlinearity. Following brief explanations of fractional integration and random field regression, and the methods of applying them, selected techniques are applied to a demand for money dataset. Comparisons of the results from this illustrative case study are presented, and conclusions are drawn that should aid practitioners in applied time-series econometrics. Paper delivered at the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Irish Economic Association, Bunclody, Co. Wexford, 2006

2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Gannon, Brenda Nolan, Brian http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60045 2016-09-09T17:52:58Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inter-industry wage differentials in Ireland Gannon, Brenda; Nolan, Brian 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.

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