Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, October, 1986 by Title

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    • An alternative measure of employment intensity 

      O'Riordan, William K. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)
      The input output tables in Eurostat (1983) are used to infer the total employment generated by final demand in 41 NACE Sectors in each of the 8 EEC countries in 1975. Average employment intensities (AEI) are then calculated ...

    • Community policing in Cork - awareness, attitudes and correlates 

      Hourihan, Kevin (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)
      Understanding of, and attitudes towards community policing were examined by a questionnaire survey in Cork in 1984. At that time, half of the respondents felt that local crime was at least a "fairly serious" problem, but ...

    • Community security - the irish problem 

      Gardiner, Frances K. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)
      Consideration of some theoretical literature on community involvement in crime control is useful in clarifying the ultimate objectives of such schemes. Characteristic of crime in Ireland is the high incidence of offences ...

    • Employers social insurance contributions and employment 

      Fagan, G.; Murphy, A. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)
      Holmlund (1981) presents a simple model of the incidence of employers' social insurance contributions. Hughes (1985) applies this model to Irish data, and examines the employment effect of employers' social insurance ...

    • Employers social insurance contributions and employment - reply 

      Hughes, Gerard (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1986)
      I do not accept Fagan ad Murphy's argument that my estimate of the employment effect is misleading. My estimate refers to the short run and it is, therefore, perfectly valid for the period to which it relates. The estimates ...