The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 32, No. 3, October, 2001
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Redistribution over the lifetime in the Irish tax-benefit system: an application of a prototype dynamic microsimulation model for Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2001)This paper examines the distribution of lifetime income in Ireland. To do this a new prototype dynamic microsimulation model for Ireland is used to generate lifetime income streams. Aggregating over the lifetime we can ... -
Reassessing income and deprivation approaches to the measurement of poverty in the Republic of Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2001)This paper reassesses the validity of a poverty measure combining relative income and non-monetary deprivation indicators, first developed and applied to Irish data for 1987, in the light of experience since then and ... -
Eliciting preferences for resource allocation in health care
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2001)Willingness-to-pay (WTP) studies are increasingly being used in the evaluation of health care programmes and, although less frequently, for priority setting in health care. The usefulness of willingness-to-pay as a ... -
Technical change and efficiency in Irish agriculture
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2001)This paper calculates average technical efficiency levels and rates of technical change for Irish agriculture using an unbalanced panel of 2,603 farms drawn from the Irish National Farm Survey over the period 1984 to 1998. ...