Browsing Archive JSSISI: 1847- Complete Collection by Title
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The Ulster tenant-right custom: its origin, characteristic and position under the Land Acts.
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1894)Few subjects connected with Irish land have been the cause of more discussion than the Tenant-right Custom of Ulster. For many years before 1870 a controversy was carried on with respect to the attributes of the custom, ... -
Understanding Income Inequality in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)This paper shows that inequality in disposable income has fallen substantially in Ireland between 1987 and 2017. However, inequality in market income has risen on most measures over the same period, leaving Ireland the ... -
Unemployment: its causes and their remedies
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1927)Is unemployment inevitable? If so, are there any remedies which will mitigate its evil effect? These are the questions which are on the lips of those who are compelled to face one of the most vital of the many problems with ... -
Unemployment?the statistical background
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1943)Statistics relating to unemployment in this country are available from two main sources. There is first, the weekly figures published in the Press showing the number of unemployed who are seeking work and who register ... -
Uneven economic development and its implications for policy: Lessons from the UK
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2018)This paper examines the UK’s large and, by some measures, growing variation in economic performance across cities and regions and assesses how policymakers can and should respond. The traditional policy mix – including ... -
The unhealthiness of Irish towns, and the want of sanitary legislation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1866)In Waterford, Dr. Mackesy, and in Cork, Mr. W. d'E. Parker, have procured an expression of public opinion that a similar act is desirable in those cities, and I, being desirous that other towns should share the blessings ... -
Union membership in Ireland since 2003
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Statistical Society of Ireland, 2015)Using data from the Quarterly National Household Survey supplemented with some data from the European Social Survey we document a steady decline in union density in Ireland since 2003. While the great recession appeared ... -
Universal Free Trade
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1857)We present ourselves here as delegates from the central committee of the ?International Association for Customs Reform" established in Brussels, of which I have the honour of being the president. I am directed by the central ... -
The Universities - III
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1950)The limitations of this paper should be made clear at the start. It represents an attempt to bring together the statistics relating to university education in this part of the country and to examine how far they have changed ... -
The universities and management training
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1959)The post-war years have seen a significant increase in the attention given to the problems of business management and to the devising of courses covering a wide variety of subjects but all subsumed under the general heading ... -
"The universities". I - University College, Dublin
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1946)University education has ceased to excite more than passing interest since the Irish Universities Act of 1908. The University of Dublin, indeed, has been examined by a Royal Commission since that date; but there has been ... -
"The universities." II - The University of Dublin: Trinity College
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1947)The University of Dublin, or Trinity College - by whichever name we may decide to call it - is the third University in these islands and, of course, by far the most ancient in this country. There have been so many changes ... -
Unskilled labour in Dublin: its housing and living conditions
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1914)Perhaps the greatest difficulty in the way of the social reformer is his lack of adequate information. He perceives, as all, who are not blind or deaf, must perceive, that all is not well with the commonwealth, that ... -
The urban co-operative movement in the United Kingdom
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1917)In spite of this widely spread knowledge of and interest in various forms of organisation, the average man of the professional and educated classes in the United Kingdom still looks quite blank if he is approached as ... -
US corporate tax rate cuts: Spillovers to the Irish economy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)We examine spillovers to the Irish economy from US corporate income tax rate cuts and find they lead to a small but persistent increase in Irish economic output. Our analysis of the transmission channels shows that an ... -
The use of alcoholic liquors: economically, socially, and morally wrong
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)In a former paper which I had the honour to read before this society, I showed the intimate connexion between intemperance and crime. I purpose, on the present occasion, to carry out the object I then had in view, and ... -
The use of statistical methods in agricultural experiments
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1937)There is nothing new in the idea of agricultural experiments. Modern agriculture is largely the result of successful experiment, and the student of agricultural history finds that the facts of one generation are the ... -
The use of the potato crop in pre-famine Ireland
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Using a household budget survey to measure healthy eating patterns
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2008)Along with physical activity, diet is the key factor that affects your weight. Having a healthy weight for your height is important as being overweight or obese increases the risk of medical conditions such as heart disease, ... -
Using Administrative Data to Change Perception about Caregiving and Improve the Evidence Base Related to Volunteering
(SSISI, 2017)The aim of this paper is to illustrate the added value achievable using dynamically linked administrative data sources: to do this by examining in detail a series of studies related to the morbidity and mortality outcomes ...
