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Role-imposition or role-improvisation - some theoretical principles
(Economic & Social Studies, 1981)
Two assumptions are made. First, role-improvisation and structural determination of role content are viewed as opposing processes inherent in all situations. Second, the relative importance of these processes is assumed ...
The relationship between alternative population and migration series - a comment
(Economic & Social Studies, 1981)
In their recent paper on the derivation of annual population estimates Whelan and Keogh (1980) implicitly assume that the number on the Electoral Register refers to Apri l 15 ? the date on which the Register comes into ...
A new look at the irish land question
(Economic & Social Studies, 1981)
Behind the land question in nineteenth century Ireland lie two different conceptions of property and hence of landlord-tenant relations. One reflects communal notions and stresses tenants' prescriptive rights; the other ...
The decline of irish industry in the 19th-century
(Economic & Social Studies, 1981)
Official statistics published by the Department of the Environment (London) suggest that during the 1970s Northern Ireland changed from being the cheapest housing region in the United Kingdom to being the most expensive ...
A note on the sectoral employment pattern
(Economic & Social Studies, 1981)
The theory proposed by Cogan (1978) that the sectoral employment pattern is likely to reach a "steady state" is re-examined. It is suggested that there is no theoretical basis for such a state and that there is a considerable ...
Input-substitution and technical change in irish agriculture - 1953-1977
(Economic & Social Studies, 1981)
This paper seeks to find explanations for agriculture's changing resource structure over the past 25 years, using the framework of neoclassical production theory. The translog functional form was used to estimate the factor ...
Who supported the land war - an aggregate-data analysis of irish agrarian discontent, 1879-1882
(Economic & Social Studies, 1981)
Correlation and regression of aggregate data for Irish counties is used to investigate the social and economic environment of the Land League and the Land War between 1879 and 1882. Existing hypotheses are outlined, linked ...
Some problems of policy-related attitude surveys - with examples from the davis-sinnott report
(Economic & Social Studies, 1981)
This paper offers a criticism of some of the problems involved in policy-related attitude surveys. It argues that the assumptions made in order to generate information useful to policy-makers are difficult to defend. The ...
Socioeconomic aspects of anti-semitism in ireland, 1880-1905
(Economic & Social Studies, 1981)
Sociological research in Ireland is committed to an unhealthy reliance on survey analysis tech-niques. The major defect of such an approach is that the insights of historical and comparative approaches are frequently absent. ...
Factor demand and factor substitution in selected sectors of the irish food-industry
(Economic & Social Studies, 1981)
In this paper the degree of substitution between capital services, labour, material and fuel was estimated for the meat and milk processing sectors of the Irish food industry. The responsiveness of these inputs to price ...