Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 41, No. 4, Winter, 2010 by Title

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  • Mandatory minimum sentencing, drug purity and overdose rates 

    Davies, Ronald B. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)
    As of 1987, the US?s Anti-Drug Abuse Act (ADAA) has imposed mandatory minimum sentences for drug traffickers based on the quantity of the drug involved irrespective of purity. Using the STRIDE dataset and a differences- ...

  • Social mobility and equality of opportunity 

    Breen, Richard (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)
    The idea of social mobility is closely linked to the concept of equality of opportunity: it is widely held that if there were greater equality of opportunity there would be more social mobility and, conversely, that more ...

  • The European context of Ireland?s economic crisis 

    Dellepiane Avellaneda, Sebastian; Hardiman, Niamh (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)
    The current economic crisis has hit all European countries hard, but some are more severely affected than others. The problems manifest in European peripheral countries that are also members of the Eurozone, that is, ...