Browsing by Subject "Sociology"
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3rd sinn fein party - 1923-1926
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)The Republican party that was organized under the name 'Sinn Fein' after the end of the civil war, while initially relatively successful, failed to obtain the majority support essential, not only for the implementation of ... -
3rd-sinn fein party - 1923-1926
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1969)The recent commemoration of the fiftieth anniversaries of the Easter Rising and the meeting o f the First Dail firearm have done much to focus attention on this stormy watershed of modern Irish history and politics. The ... -
A bayesian look at consumption
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1982)Precis: This paper assesses various possible explanations for savings behaviour in Ireland during the 1960s and 1970s. Attempts to discriminate between these rival hypotheses have been hampered by multicollinearity. This ... -
A comparison of the bounds, beta-approximate, and exact variants of 2 tests for heteroscedasticity based on ordinary least-squares residuals
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1981)Precis: This paper compares the small sample empirical size, power and incidence of inconclusiveness of the bounds tests for heteroscedasticity proposed by Szroeter (1978) and Harrison and McCabe (1979). It also examines ... -
A new look at the irish land question
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1981)Behind the land question in nineteenth century Ireland lie two different conceptions of property and hence of landlord-tenant relations. One reflects communal notions and stresses tenants' prescriptive rights; the other ... -
A note on a proposed census-based irish social-class scale for epidemiological health research
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1982)Precis: The social class/prestige scales currently used in Irish research are examained and considered unsuitable for epidemiological research as they are not census-based. The historical development of Socio-Economic ... -
A note on the sectoral employment pattern
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1981)The theory proposed by Cogan (1978) that the sectoral employment pattern is likely to reach a "steady state" is re-examined. It is suggested that there is no theoretical basis for such a state and that there is a considerable ... -
A note upon localism and party solidarity - the transfer of votes in the udaras-na-gaeltachta election of 1979
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1984)Two important features of the Irish electoral system are localism and party solidarity. The electorate, particularly in rural areas, expect their representatives to look after their specific local interests and are therefore ... -
A preliminary econometric investigation of the irish housing-market, 1969-1976
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1982)Precis: Recent modelling developments in the housing economics literature are reviewed and drawn on to construct a national housing model for Ireland. The model is estimated on quarterly data over the' period 1969-1976. ... -
A study of replacement ratios among a sample of unemployed workers
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: This study reports the findings of an examination of the actual benefits to earnings (replacement) ratio experience among a sample of unemployed workers. Previous Irish studies in this area have been at the ... -
A symmetric alternative to geary and john expression of product changes
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Absenteeism at national school - educational, medical and social aspects
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)This study of a small sample of national school absentees suggests that such absentees are characterised by high levels of economic and emotional insecurity, and by educational retardation. It thus supports the control ... -
Accessibility and urban-growth rates - evidence for the irish urban system
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1984)Urban growth is a complicated process and any quantitative analysis is unlikely to replicate growth rates very well. This paper explores one particular relationship in the context of Irish urban centres, that between growth ... -
After Optimism? Ireland, Racism and Globalisation
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Allais, Maurice - Nobel-Prize winner in Economics 1988
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Alternative techniques of estimating import demand elasticities
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)The desirability as well as the difficulty of obtaining reliable estimates of import demand elasticities is clearly demonstrated by the extensive literature on the subject during the last few decades. Interest in price ... -
Bailiwicks, locality, and religion - 3 elements in an irish dail constituency election
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)This article is essentially a case study of voting patterns in an Irish Dail Constituency. But in this analysis we also deal with a larger question: how a stable party system exists in a constituency characterized by ... -
Beginnings of state care for mentally ill in ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)The purpose in this paper is to examine the background and development of state care for the mentally ill in Ireland. Today, with a rapidly growing awareness of the needs of people with psychiatric problems, many agencies, ... -
Bi-confessionalism in a confessional party system - the Northern Ireland alliance party
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)In a comparative context a bi-polar conflict is rare, especially when it takes the form of a conflict between two intractably opposed and self-sufficient communities ranged around a single, all-pervasive, cleavage. As ... -
Birth under-registration in the republic-of-ireland during the 20th-century
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1982)Precis: The efficiency of birth registration in Ireland is investigated in this article by comparing the number of registered births with Census age-distributions in the period 1916-1971. It is argued that there was a ...