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  • Price elasticity of demand for tobacco in ireland 

    Oriordan, Wk (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1969)
    This short study is an attempt to estimate the price elasticity of demand for tobacco in Ireland. Tobacco was chosen, partly because of its importance as a source of tax revenue, and partly because of certain simplifying ...
  • Regional study of relative prosperity of irish farms of different sizes 

    Ross, M (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1969)
    In the course o f a study o f regional allocation in Irish agriculture it became necessary to attempt to estimate regional incomes by farm size for the base year of the study, 1960. The results afforded a considerable ...
  • Science of econometrics any use for short-term forecasting - enquiry based mainly on irish educational statistics 1947-1967 

    Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1969)
    As his title indicates, the writer, wisely or unwisely, proposes to hang a very general and important question on the highly specialized inquiry with which this paper mainly deals: in fact to make a prima facie case for a ...
  • Establishing of irish pound - backward glance 

    Pratschke, Jl (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1969)
    This paper proposes to examine the major structural developments in Irish banking during the decade of the nineteen-twenties. This was an era of great changes on the pohtical scene in Ireland, and also o f institutional ...
  • Note on smoking among dublin school children 

    Wilson, K (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1969)
    In 1967, although half the adult population of the Irish Republic were known to be smokers,2 there was little information on the prevalence of smoking among children, the numbers of regular smokers, the numbers who tried ...
  • 3rd-sinn fein party - 1923-1926 

    Pyne, P (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1969)
    The recent commemoration of the fiftieth anniversaries of the Easter Rising and the meeting o f the First Dail firearm have done much to focus attention on this stormy watershed of modern Irish history and politics. The ...
  • Social expenditure of public authorities and economic growth 1947-66 

    Kennedy, F (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
    Social expenditure in this context refers to the consolidated expenditure of public authorities on education, health, housing and income maintenance. Public authorities comprise the Central Government (including extra-budgetary ...
  • Determinants of personal savings in ireland - econometric inquiry 

    Kennedy, Kieran A.; Dowling, Brendan R. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
    The acceleration in the rate of economic growth in Ireland in. the last ten years or so compared with the earlier post-war years has been accompanied by a very considerable rise in the proportion of income saved. This ...
  • Aspects of intercommunity population balance in Northern Ireland 

    Compton, P.A; Boal, F.W. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
    The population of Northern Ireland is probably unique in that it is composed of two groups of people each of which can be characterized as a 'minority'. Conventional wisdom has it that at present there is a dominant ...
  • Method of evaluating company employment policies based on national preferences 

    Mulvey, C (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
    In the course of preparing a cost/benefit analysis of Irish Shipping Ltd., it was necessary to attempt an evaluation of the employment policy pursued by the company. This paper describes the method employed in making the ...
  • Quantitative estimates of trade liberalisation - methods and results 

    McAleese, D (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
    The economic benefits of trade liberalisation are conventionally divided into two parts: static gains and dynamic gains. Static gains refer to the advantages of increased specialisation arising from easier access to ...
  • Regional development in ireland - problems of goal formulation and objective specification 

    O' Farrell, PN (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
    The establishment of a consistent set of goals and objectives is fundamental to the planning process since planning is concerned with attempting to realise predetermined results. Although specification of objectives is a ...
  • Economic aspects of alcohol consumption in Republic of Ireland 

    Walsh, BM; Walsh, D (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
    Considerable difficulties beset international comparisons of the incidence and prevalence of 'alcoholism'. This reflects the absence of a universally accepted definition of the illness and of a yardstick by which its ...
  • Further analysis of Irish expenditure functions, 1965-1966 

    Pratschke, JL (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
    This paper is concerned with a closer examination of the interaction between household size and composition and household expenditures, using, as in the previous study, data collected by the Central Statistics Office and ...
  • Inter-generational social mobility and individual differences among dubliners 

    Hart, I; O' Sullivan, B (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
    The values of a culture are indicated by the personal qualities accompanying social success within it. Our object is to reveal some of the values of Dublin society by examining the relationship between certain personal ...
  • Survey of some delinquent boys in an irish-industrial-school and reformatory 

    Hart, I (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
    The research aimed at discovering specific social and psychological characteristics of institutionalized delinquent boys in the Irish Republic. Various researchers had considered separate aspects of juvenile delinquency ...
  • Status inequalities within families in relation to their structural differences 

    Hannan, D (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
    The nuclear family, not the individual, is regarded as the basic unit of social stratification systems: a nuclear family being usually defined as a man and wife, with their dependent children, sharing a common domicile. ...
  • Productivity, earnings and composition of labour - irish-manufacturing-industries, 1953-1966 

    Kennedy, Kieran A.; Dowling, Brendan R. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
    In a paper read recently to the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society oflreland by one of the present authors,1 differences in the growth of labour productivity in Irish manufacturing industries over the period 1953 to ...
  • Method of evaluating company employment policies based on national preferences 

    Mulvey, C (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
    In the course of preparing a cost/benefit analysis of Irish Shipping Ltd., it was necessary to attempt an evaluation of the employment policy pursued by the company. This paper describes the method employed in making the ...
  • Recent price trend in Ireland 

    Geary, R.C.; Pratschke, J.L.; Henry, E.W. (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)
    In the first section we set out the major price trends since 1958 and indicate the principal cause of price inflation. In later sections we examine the effects of productivity, wage and profit rates, prices of imports and ...