Browsing JSSISI: 1998 to 1999, Vol. XXVIII, 152nd Session by Title
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Corporate profitability in Ireland: overview and determinants
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1999)The study of profits is important not only because of the information it provides about the health of the economy in any given year, but also because profits are a key determinant of growth and employment in the medium-term. ... -
The demographic and socio-economic characteristics of migrants, 1986-1996
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1999)In the paper we draw on the following data sources: the censuses of 1986, 1991 and 1996 and the annual Labour Force Surveys (LFSs) for 1987 to 1997. Data from the annual series of population and migration releases are ... -
Economic Management in Ireland Post-EMU: A Trade Union Perspective
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1999)The end of the 1990s has seen the Irish economy exposed as never before. But the 1990s has also seen the Irish economy grow as never before. Clearly the challenges of openness can only be met and confronted if the circumstances ... -
Economic management in Ireland post-EMU: Ireland?s potential within EMU
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1999)A tendency to seriousness is not usually a characteristic associated with the Irish but our national image may be in the process of being redefined as we treat the management of success with almost as much caution and worry ... -
Economic management in Ireland post-EMU: policy implications of globalisation and regionalisation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1999)In today?s increasingly globalised economy, it is something of a paradox that while policy-making autonomy is being progressively ceded by states to supranational organisations, regions within nation states have also begun ... -
Higher education participation in Northern Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1999)This paper seeks to provide an overview of higher education participation in Northern Ireland. The aims are to set out quantitatively, the main dimensions of participation located within a comparative United Kingdom (UK) ... -
Innovation policy in Ireland: economic ideas and institutional diversity
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1999)For academic economists, the questions `what are the sources of technological progress?? and `to what extent can policy assist innovation?? appear now to be increasingly almost co-extensive with the central question of ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: one hundred and fifty second session ? 1998/99
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Public expenditure in the regional economy of Northern Ireland: has the growth of the 1970s been sustained?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1999)In terms of the overall objective of the paper, the primary focus for analysis relates to the way in which the growth of public expenditure in Northern Ireland has changed since the 1970s. Simpson (1980) documented this ... -
Regional income differentials and the issue of regional equalisation in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1999)The policy perspective we will argue for in this paper has three broad aspects. First, we will argue that policies of redistribution that have an explicit regional emphasis are unlikely to be justified in Ireland's unitary ...