Browsing by Author "Geary, Patrick T."
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Appropriate measure of unemployment in an Irish Phillips Curve
Geary, Patrick T.; Jones, Roderick M. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)A generalisation of the Phillips curve for a developing country, recently proposed by Modigliani and Tarentelli (1973), is modified and applied to the Irish economy for the period 1953-72 using annual data. The results ... -
Cost of capital to Irish industry - revised estimates
Geary, Patrick T.; McDonnell, Edward (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)Cost of capital indices, based on those of Geary, Walsh and Copeland (1975), are revised and updated to 1975. The revisions involve the use of different series for the price of new capital goods and the borrowing rate of ... -
The economics of equal pay
Geary, Patrick T.; Walsh, Brendan M. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1972)The importance of the concept of equal pay appears to derive from the notion that unequal pay represents discrimination against women, and hence is unjust. There is however a basic difficulty in defining "equal pay". ... -
Ireland's economy in the 1980s: stagnation and recovery - a preliminary review of the evidence
Geary, Patrick T. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)This paper reviews recent literature on Ireland's economic experiences in the 1980s. It was a decade of EMS membership, with stagnation and a rapidly mounting debt problem followed by a sharp recovery from 1987. Controversy ... -
Irish migration: the search for the efficiency and equity basis of a European regional policy: a comment
Geary, Patrick T. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1989)This paper focuses on aspects of migration which have received limited attention in the Irish literature. The latter has by and large been concerned with the causes of migration, to the near exclusion of its consequences ... -
Lags in transmission of inflation - some preliminary estimates
Geary, Patrick T. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)This paper provides some preliminary estimates of the structure of the lags in the relationships between the quarterly proportionate rates of change of the consumer price index, wholesale price index, export unit value ... -
A symposium on inflation
Geary, Patrick T.; McCormack, Dara; Ryan, Terence (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1975)Inflation is widely regarded as the major problem facing the world economy. After more than a decade of relatively slow growth in wage and price levels, following the inflation associated with the Korean war, wages and ... -
The nature and functioning of labour markets : a survey of international and Irish literature and a statement of research priorities for Ireland
Geary, Patrick T. (National Economic and Social CouncilIE, 1988) -
World prices and inflationary process in a small open-economy - case of Ireland
Geary, Patrick T. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)The standard wage-price model of inflation and a variant of Parkin's (1973) inflation model, both directly incorporating world prices, are applied to the Irish economy for the period 1953-74. This approach does not allow ...