Browsing Journal Articles by ESRI researchers by Date of Publication
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Recreational boating site choice and the impact of water quality
(Elsevier, 17/10/2017)This paper examines whether water quality has an effect on recreational boating activity. The analysis is based on survey data collected by face-to-face interviews with recreational visitors to 10 waterway sites across ... -
Structuring student behaviour: discipline policy in primary schools
(Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO), 18/12/2017)School discipline has been a prominent feature of debates in educational policy but much less attention has been given to the factors influencing the approach to discipline taken by individual schools. This article uses ... -
Curriculum choices and school-to-work transitions among upper-secondary school leavers in Scotland and Ireland
(Routledge, 19/10/2017)David Raffe was a highly influential figure in the field of transitions research. His work carefully delineated how national institutional policies shape transition processes and outcomes. Curriculum structure and organisation ... -
How reliable is the Quarterly National Household Survey for migration research?
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2008)Much research has been conducted on immigration into Ireland in recent years using data from the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS), the official source for labour market data in Ireland. As it is known that the ... -
From Data to Policy Analysis: Tax-Benefit Modelling using SILC 2008
(2010)Policy makers and the body politic have a strong interest in ensuring that the tax transfer system functions well. This common interest in policies that are efficient in achieving their objectives ? including economic ... -
Inequality and the Crisis: The Distributional Impact of Tax Increases and Welfare and Public Sector Pay Cuts
(2010)The economic crisis impacts directly on the distribution of income via unemployment and private sector wages, but the way policy responds in seeking to control soaring fiscal deficits is also central to its distributional ... -
Inequality and the crisis: the distributional impact of tax increases and welfare and public sector pay cuts
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)The economic crisis impacts directly on the distribution of income via unemployment and private sector wages, but the way policy responds in seeking to control soaring fiscal deficits is also central to its distributional ... -
The Impact of Government Policy on Private Car Ownership in Ireland
(2011)We construct a model of the stock of private cars in the Republic of Ireland. The model distinguishes cars by fuel, engine size and age. The modelled car stock is built up from a long history of data on sales, and calibrated ... -
The Distributional Effects of Value Added Tax in Ireland
(2011)In this paper we examine the distributional effects of Value Added Tax (VAT) in Ireland. Using the 2004/2005 Household Budget Survey, we assess the amount of VAT that households pay as a proportion of weekly disposable ... -
'There Was Never Really Any Question of Anything Else': Young People's Agency, Institutional Habitus and the Transition to Higher Education
(2012)International research into educational decision-making has been extensive, focusing on the way in which young people and their families assess the different options open to them. However, to what extent can we assume that ... -
High Stakes Testing and Student Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in the Republic of Ireland
(2012)There is now a well developed literature on the impact of high stakes testing on teaching approaches and student outcomes. However, the student perspective has been neglected in much research. This article draws on a mixed ... -
Human Capital and Growth of Information and Communication Technology-intensive Industries: Empirical Evidence from Open Economies
(2013)This paper examines the effect of human capital on the growth of ICT-intensive industries using data from a sample of open economies over the period 1980-1999. Our econometric analysis suggest that value added and employment ... -
What Determines the Location Choice of R&D Activities by Multinational Firms?
(2013)We analyse 446 location decisions of R&D activities by multinational firms incorporated in the European Union over 1999-2006. Our results suggest that on average, the location probability of a representative R&D foreign ... -
Choice, price and service characteristics in the Irish broadband market
(2013)Using detailed plan-level data, this paper examines the choice, price and quality of broadband services available to consumers in Ireland over time. We find modest geographical (county level) variation in broadband services. ... -
Irish and British electricity prices: what recent history implies for future prices
(2014)This paper compares retail and wholesale electricity prices in SEM, the market of the island of Ireland, and BETTA in Great Britain. Estimated wholesale costs are much lower in BETTA. We show that this is mostly because ... -
The Wealth, Health and Well-being of Ireland's Older People before and during the Economic Crisis
(2014)The economic crisis of 2008/9 was felt more acutely in Ireland relative to elsewhere and culminated in the international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between ... -
Ireland's Recovery from Crisis
(2014)