Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, October, 1989 by Title

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  • Payroll taxes, capital grants and Irish unemployment: a comment 

    Ruane, Frances; Barry, Frank (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1989)
    In this paper Frank Barry examines the issue of the appropriateness of capital versus labour subsidies in the Irish economy, in the context of three different models, namely a neo-classical small-open-economy model, a ...

  • Payroll taxes: capital grants and Irish unemployment 

    Barry, Frank (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1989)
    A recent OECD study concluded that no other member country had a tax/subsidy system as biased against the use of labour as the Irish. This view of the flawed nature of the Irish system has, however, been disputed by many ...

  • The real wage gap and its development over time: the Irish experience 1960-1987 

    Walsh, Patrick Paul; Walsh, Frank A.; Woelger, Ernestine (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1989)
    The high inflation and high unemployment occurring throughout the OECD in recent years have resulted from a complex interaction of contractionary supply and demand factors as outlined by Bruno and Sachs (1985). Their ...

  • The real wage gap and its development over time: the Irish experience 1960-87: a comment 

    Lucey, Brian M. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1989)
    I wish to make a number of points regarding the content of the paper on the wage gap presented by Walsh, Walsh and Woelger. Let me first of all state that I found the explanation given in the paper to be a very simple and ...