http://hdl.handle.net/2262/68207 Thu, 02 Nov 2017 07:50:05 GMT 2017-11-02T07:50:05Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/68204 Identifying policy impacts in the crisis: Microsimulation evidence on tax and welfare Keane, Claire; Callan, Tim; Savage, Michael; Walsh, John R.; Timoney, Kevin Ireland?s banking, property and fiscal crises, combined with a worldwide Great Recession have had severe implications for household incomes. Particular attention has focused on how incomes at various levels have been affected by tax and welfare policy responses to the overall crisis. This paper describes how SWITCH, the ESRI tax-benefit model, has been rebased to use data from SILC (Survey on Income and Living Conditions) 2010, capturing the major fall in household incomes and rise in unemployment. Selected analyses based on 2008 and 2010 data are reported, to give insights into the distributional and incentive impacts of tax and welfare policy up to 2012. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/68204 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/68203 Effects of R&D spending on innovation by Irish and foreign-owned businesses Doran, Justin; Jordan, Declan; O?Leary, Eoin This paper estimates the private returns to four different kinds of R&D spending on the probability of Irish and foreign-owned businesses engaging in product, process and organizational innovation. By providing econometric analysis of nearly 2000 businesses in the Community Innovation Survey: 2004 to 2006, it makes an important contribution to our understanding of the effects of Irish innovation policy, which has incentivized businesses to spend on R&D in Ireland. The main findings are that Irish-owned businesses are significantly more likely than foreign-owned to introduce new products as a result of creative R&D work undertaken. Foreign-owned businesses, which spend nearly 6 times more per worker on R&D than Irish-owned, enjoy very high returns mostly from the purchase or licence of patents. This reflects a fundamental difference in the innovation activities of these businesses, which is critical for policymakers? understanding of the Irish innovation system. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/68203 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/68202 The impact of changes in educational attainment on life expectancy in Ireland FitzGerald, John; Byrne, David; Znuderl, Nusa This article looks at scenarios quantifying the potential contribution of increasing educational attainment to the prospective improvement in life expectancy in Ireland over the next 50 years. This analysis uses recently published information for Ireland on life expectancy by level of education. This article also considers the implications of the new data on life expectancy for differences in death rates by level of education for different groups in the population today. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/68202 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/68201 Estimating the effects of land-use and catchment characteristics on lake water quality: Irish lakes 2004-2009 Curtis, John; Morgenroth, Edgar This paper attributes the variation in water quality across Irish lakes to a range of contributory factors such as human population, septic tanks, urban waste water treatment, phosphorous excreted by livestock, as well as catchment soil and geology. Both linear and non-linear quadratic models were estimated in the analysis, which attempts to account for point and non-point sources of pollution affecting water quality in 216 lake catchments. The models show a clear link between activities within lake catchments (e.g. agriculture, population, etc.) and lake water quality, finding that the relationship is neither simple nor linear. The analysis also shows that it is important to account properly for the type of and intensity of land-use particularly in relation to agriculture. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/68201 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z