Browsing Economic and Social Review by Subject "Income"

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    • Book review: Preventing the future: why was Ireland so poor for so long? / by Tom Garvin. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2004. 

      Honohan, Patrick; Garvin, Tom (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      In the last year of peace before the First World War, Ireland had (though this book does not make any such comparison) reached a level of per capita income roughly comparable with that of Swaziland today, while the remainder ...

    • Measuring poverty in Ireland: a comment 

      Mac Carthaigh, Seosamh (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      In Callan, Hannan, Nolan and Whelan (1989), the ESRI team attempt to defend the use of "relative income thresholds" as measures of poverty. The argument here will be that there is a lack of correspondence between the ...

    • Measuring poverty in Ireland: reply 

      Callan, Tim; Hannan, Damian F.; Nolan, Brian; Whelan, Brendan J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      MacCarthaigh makes three points with respect to the measurement of poverty, drawing on the work of Stein Ringen. We deal with these in turn, and attempt to match his comment for succinctness ? the issues are discussed in ...

    • The effect of current income on aggregate consumption 

      Chakrabarty, Manisha; Schmalenbach, Anke (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      Using the statistical distributional approach of aggregation by Hildenbrand and Kneip (1999, 2002), this paper attempts to find out to what extent current labour income can explain the relative change in aggregate consumption ...