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  • Preliminary notes on the Census of Population in Northern Ireland, 1937 

    Meenan, James (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1937)
    The second Census of the Six Counties of Northern Ireland was taken on February 28th, 1937. The preliminary figures of that Census have now been published, and it will be of some interest to discover how far they disclose ...

  • Price, Size and Density: Dublin Housing in an EU Context 

    Kilgarriff, Paul (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2022)
    The current discussions and analysis around housing in Ireland lack a detailed analysis of the relationship between house size and prices in Ireland. Related to house size is the density of an area. In this paper I contribute ...

  • Profits and wages in Ireland, 1987-1996 

    Lane, Philip R. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)
    A striking feature of the Irish economic resurgence since 1987 has been a major factor income shift away from labour and towards capital. (The profit share has increased from 25.1 per cent in 1987 to 34.8 per cent in 1996.) ...

  • Profits, efficiency and Irish banks 

    LUCEY, BRIAN MICHAEL (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1994)
    This paper looks at the interaction between profits and efficiency in a sample of 17 Irish banks, for the years 1988 - 1991 inclusive. By contrast with previous techniques used for assessing economic models of efficiency, ...

  • Progress and the Lack of Progress in Addressing Infant Health and Infant Health Inequalities in Ireland during the 20th Century 

    McGovern, Mark E. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)
    There is a growing literature which documents the importance of early life environment for outcomes across the life cycle. Research, including studies based on Irish data, demonstrates that those who experience better ...

  • Reconciling rapid economic growth with environmental sustainability in Ireland 

    Clinch, J. Peter (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2001)
    The extraordinarily rapid rate of growth of the Irish economy in the past decade has provided many benefits in terms of increased living standards and higher employment levels. However, economic growth has also resulted ...

  • The revealed comparative advantage of Irish exports of manufactures 1969-1982 

    Thornhill, Donal J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1988)
    This paper outlines the results of an empirical study of the repealed comparative advantage of Irish exports of manufactures during the period 1969-1982. The concept of comparative advantage is central to the theory of ...

  • Schooling returns, schooling decisions and educational finance 

    Harmon, Colm (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2002)
    Given the presence of significant returns to education, it would seem logical to query why individuals choose to leave school early. This paper examines the evidence on this issue, dealing with both methodological and ...

  • Seventy Years of Personal Disposable Income and Consumption in Ireland 

    Stuart, Rebecca (SSISI, 2017)
    This paper compiles annual data on personal consumption and personal disposable income for Ireland over the period 1944 to 2014 and goes on to estimate consumption functions. Having established that the series are cointegrated, ...

  • Sustainable development - the challange for Irish economic policy-makers 

    McCoy, Daniel A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1993)
    Sustainable development has become a key phrase during the last decade in development and environmental literature. Governments and international bodies have adopted the goal of sustainable development with surprising ...

  • Taxation, work and gender equality in Ireland 

    Doorley, Karina (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2018)
    In most developed countries, economies are facing population ageing, falling fertility rates and stagnating labour force participation. The ability of governments to fund future pension and health-care expenditure relies ...

  • Understanding Income Inequality in Ireland 

    Roantree, Barra (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)
    This paper shows that inequality in disposable income has fallen substantially in Ireland between 1987 and 2017. However, inequality in market income has risen on most measures over the same period, leaving Ireland the ...

  • Wage inflation and structural unemployment in Ireland 

    Keeney, Mary J. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2008)
    In this paper we represent structural unemployment by relating observed unemployment to wage inflation. An estimated series for the non-accelerating wage rate of unemployment (NAWRU) shows that the unemployment gap between ...

  • Well-being under conditions of abundance: Ireland from 1990-2007 

    Delaney, Liam (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2009)
    This paper examines the health and well-being of the Irish population in the late 20th century, the period popularly referred to as the Celtic Tiger. This period saw unprecedented increases in economic activity in Ireland. ...