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Determinants of pension coverage and retirement income replacement rates – Evidence from TILDA
(Economic & Social Research InstituteDublin, 2014)In Ireland, the absence of statutory earnings-related pensions in the private sector leads to large variations in pension coverage and adequacy. This paper uses recent data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) ... -
Income and wealth in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
(Economic & Social Research InstituteDublin, 2014)Between 2009 and 2011, data were collected under the first wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Over 8,500 people aged 50 and over and living in Ireland were interviewed about a wide range of topics ... -
The Socio-economic gradient of obesity in Ireland – Corrigendum
(Economic & Social Research InstituteDublin, 2014)In a paper published in this journal in 2013 concentration indices for obesity were presented for male and female obesity. Decompositions of the indices were also presented. There was an error in the calculations which led ... -
Informational efficiency in distressed markets: The case of European corporate bonds
(Economic & Social Research InstituteDublin, 2014)This paper investigates the effect of the 2008 financial crisis on informational efficiency by carrying out a long-memory analysis of European corporate bond markets. We compute the Hurst exponent for fifteen sectorial ... -
Maternal country of birth differences in breastfeeding at hospital discharge in Ireland
(Economic & Social Research InstituteDublin, 2014)In 2010, 46 per cent of Irish-born mothers were breastfeeding at hospital discharge, in comparison with 84 per cent of non-Irish-born mothers. Using data from the Irish National Perinatal Reporting System, we find that ... -
Lags in transmission of inflation
(Economic and Social Research InstituteDublin, 1977)In the July 1976 issue of The Economic and Social Review, P. T. Geary presented some preliminary results on the analysis of lags in the transmission of inflation. Essentially his paper consisted of the following points. ... -
Note on heteroscedasticity in cross-section regressions estimated from Irish county data
(Economic and Social Research InstituteDublin, 1977)It is well knqwn that, even when they are expressed in log or per capita form, many statistical series on Irish counties (by which is meant here the twenty-six counties of the Republic) are characterised by a value for ... -
Spatial structure of agricultural output in Republic of Ireland
(Economic and Social Research InstituteDublin, 1977)Mixed livestock production with some arable cropping is the description often taken as applying to the form of agriculture practised throughout Ireland, with little or no reference to the major regional variations in the ... -
Issue differential - multidimensional technique for measuring components of attitudes towards social-issues
(Economic and Social Research InstituteDublin, 1977)The Semantic Differential (SD) technique, developed by Osgood, Suci and Tannenbaum (1957) is perhaps one of the most widely used instruments for tapping attitudes or perceptions towards a variety of objects. This is attested ... -
Sample design and evaluation for an occupational mobility study
(Economic and Social Research InstituteDublin, 1977)The aim of this paper is to describe the design and evaluation of the sample for an occupational mobility study in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic undertaken by Jackson et al. (1973-74)1. The objective of the study ... -
Educational attainment, occupational achievement and religion in Northern Ireland
(Economic and Social Research InstituteDublin, 1977)It has long been established that educational attainment is related to social background and that subsequent occupational achievement is dependent on educational attainment and on social background. In the case of Northern ... -
Ricardian model and structure of Irish trade - comment
(Economic and Social Research InstituteDublin, 1976)Our choice of a value rather than a physical measure of labour productivity was a conscious decision, not an 'error'. The reasons for this choice were clearly stated on pp. 451-452, footnote 2, o f the article. The weakness ... -
Ricardian model and structure of Irish trade
(Economic and Social Research InstituteDublin, 1976)In a recent article J. McGilvray and D. Simpson (1973) examined the commodity structure of trade between the Irish Republic and the United Kingdom in the light of international trade theory. Their investigation was partly ... -
Distribution of personal wealth in Ireland - evidence reexamined - comment
(Economic and Social Research InstituteDublin, 1976)The points made by Chesher and McMahon (hereafter CM) concerning thestatistical test procedure used by Harrison and Nolan (hereafter HN) in their 1975 paper are valid. Indeed, HN have been aware o f them for some time. It ... -
Distribution of personal wealth in Ireland - evidence reexamined
(Economic and Social Research InstituteDublin, 1976)In a recent article in this journal, Harrison and Nolan (1976) question the assumption made by Lyons (1975) that the estates of Irish adults dying in 1966 which were not examined by the Estate Duty Branch of the Revenue ... -
Sociology of ethnicity and social-change - model of rootedness and rootlessness
(Economic and Social Research InstituteDublin, 1976)In the light of mounting interest in, and manifestations of, ethnicity in most of the world today, it becomes important to work on the broader meaning of ethnicity from the comparative, historical and theoretical perspectives. ... -
Role of full-time union officer
(Economic and Social Research InstituteDublin, 1976)Many commentators on industrial relations postulate a more ambitious and elaborate role for the trade unions. Leading figures within the movement itself hold similar views. Such developments might be expected to place ... -
Size and efficiency - case of Irish plastics industry
(Economic and Social Research InstituteDublin, 1976)International evidence has suggested that plant or firm size does not significantly affect efficiency in the plastics processing industry; this has led to the generalisation that small firms can be economically viable in ... -
Irish gombeenman - re-incarnation or rehabilitation
(Economic and Social Research InstituteDublin, 1977)Mr. Kennedy (1977) makes four main criticisms of our paper. These will be discussed in turn. In the process, we will be concerned not only to defend our original position, but, where possible, to correct and clarify it. -
Efficiency and size - comments and extensions
(Economic and Social Research InstituteDublin, 1977)A recent contribution to this Review considered a number of measures of business efficiency and applied these to a sample of firms in the Irish Plastics Industry. The purpose of this note is to extend the analysis somewhat ...