RSS 1.0The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 40, No. 3, Autumn, 2009
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Benchmarking, social partnership and higher remuneration: wage settling institutions and the public-private sector wage gap in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2009)This paper uses data from the 2003 and 2006 National Employment Surveys to analyse the public-private sector wage gap in Ireland. In particular, we investigate the impact of awards implemented under a number of wage setting ... -
Fiscal policy and international competitiveness: evidence from Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2009)Our goal in this paper is to investigate the relation between government spending and the long-run behaviour of the Irish real exchange rate. We postulate that an increase in government consumption should be associated ... -
The distributional impact of a carbon tax in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2009)We study the effects of carbon taxation and revenue recycling across the income distribution in Ireland. Price changes of fuels and all other final goods and services are taken into account. If applied only to the emissions ... -
A relative impact ranking of political studies in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2009)Against a background of the Irish government?s concerns with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and the British government?s wishes for a more quantitative Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), our study conducts a relative ... -
The emergence of the entrepreneurial society
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2009)The topic of my talk today is what I term the entrepreneurial society or the emergence of the entrepreneurial society, which suggests that something has changed. The Director and I were speaking on the way here about the ...
