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Assessing the effectiveness of training and temporary employment schemes: some results from the youth labour market
Breen, Richard (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1991)This paper suggests some ways in which labour market programmes of training and temporary employment should be evaluated. Essentially such programmes should be evaluated relative to the counter factual: what would have ... -
Binomial option pricing and the conditions for early exercise: An example using foreign exchange options
Breen, Richard (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1990)In this paper arc derived simple and general conditions under which the value of an American option will exceed that of its European counterpart. These conditions are developed using the binomial option pricing framework. ... -
Farm size and marital-status - county and provincial differences in arensberg and kimball ireland
Breen, Richard (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: Recent debate concerning the validity of Arensberg and Kimball's ethnography has centred on the question of whether or not the rural west of Ireland demonstrated class stratification during the period of Arensberg ... -
The North Atlantic Fish Revolution, c. AD 1500
Holm, Poul; Ludlow, Francis; Scherer, Cordula; Travis, Charles; HAYES, PATRICK; Rankin, Kieran; Breen, Richard; Legg, Robert; Nicholls, John (2019)We propose the concept of the “Fish Revolution” to demarcate the dramatic increase in North Atlantic fisheries after AD 1500, which led to a 15-fold increase of cod (Gadus morhua) catch volumes and likely a tripling of ... -
Population trends in late 19th and early 20th-century ireland - a local study
Breen, Richard (Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1984)Abstract: The investigation of Irish demographic trends in the half century following the Famine has generally been conducted using figures relating to large areas. In this paper an attempt is made to examine the applicability ... -
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 ... -
Subject Availability and Student Performance in the Senior Cycle of Irish Post-Primary Schools
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The ratio of unemployment rates and fair employment: a reply to John Bradley
Breen, Richard (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1998)John Bradley's comments on Evaluation of the Ratio of Unemployment Rates as an Indicator of Fair Employment (Gudgin and Breen, 1996; henceforth G&B) reveal a thoroughgoing confusion about the debate to which the study seeks ... -
Trends in the share of long-term unemployment in Ireland
Breen, Richard; Honohan, Patrick (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1991)Unemployment in Ireland has long been characterised by two features: a relatively high rate of unemployment, and a relatively high proportion of the unemployed who are long-term unemployed (defined as unemployed for one ...