Browsing JSSISI: 1993 to 1998, Vol. XXVII, Sessions 147th to 151st by Date of Publication
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Measuring the size of Ireland's black economy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1994)Official estimates of national income are widely used in economic analysis, particularly in monitoring trends in national output and living standards over time and also in comparing relative income levels across countries. ... -
Profits, efficiency and Irish banks
(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, ... -
Access and admission charges to museums: a case study
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1994)The principle of free admission to national cultural institutions, especially museums, has prevailed in Britain and Ireland for over two centuries. Charges to the British Museum were proposed as far back as 1784, and ... -
Tax reform since the Commission on Taxation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1994)From an economic perspective the decade of the 1980s was characterised by worldwide tax reform. This movement can be understood when placed in the context of the widespread discontent that surrounded the prevailing tax ... -
Demographic structure in Northern Ireland and its implications for constitutional preference
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1994)An awareness of the dynamics of demographic change is fundamental to the provision of public services and an indispensable weapon in the armoury of the policy-maker. Demographic structure as reflected in the shape of a ... -
Making sense of diverse data sources: reflections on an applied research project
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1995)The aim of my paper today is to explore some of the tensions between 'practical' and theoretical issues involved in applied social analysis. I try to accomplish this aim by reflecting on an applied research project on ... -
Econometrics and truth
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1995)Many people think that econometrics is not the most exciting of subjects. They are more interested in the results of an econometric analysis than in the means and ways of obtaining them Many people have a distrust of ... -
The economic implications of peace in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1995)This symposium is concerned with the possible effects of peace between the two parts of Ireland on the economies of both and on the island of Ireland as a whole. It goes without saying that the greatest and overwhelming ... -
Resource implications of demographic change for education
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1995)The aims of the paper are as follows: to establish how much has been spent in real terms on cere education activities at each level over the last fifteen years; to derive projections of future resource requirements of ... -
Industrial policy, employment policy and the non-traded sector
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1995)This paper will critically examine the assumptions on which their [Irish policy makers] policies have been based, and suggest a more constructive role for government intervention. There are three quite distinct sections. ... -
Employment prospects in the Irish popular music industry
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1995)The paper conducts a statistical analysis of employment in the Irish pop music industry. In the absence of official data, the paper collects and manipulates new data sets on the industry. The analysis confirms that there ... -
The economic implications of peace in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1995)The cease-fire of August 1994, in Northern Ireland, has held for sufficiently long to raise the prospect of a permanent peace. Peace in Northern Ireland should be valued and cherished in its own right, because it restores ... -
Trader concentration for Ireland's foreign trade and the implications for post-1992 intra-EU trade statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1995)Since 1993 the detailed statistics on merchandise trade between Ireland and the other members of the European Union have been collected by means of a statistical survey of importers and exporters. This move from Customs ... -
The economic implications of peace in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1995)In our paper, we will first set the scene for the post cease-fire economic possibilities by briefly examining what we refer to as the "lost" years since the start of open conflict in the North in 1969. Although economists ... -
Time period versus generation: how should trends in fertility be measured
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1996)This paper starts by presenting the contrast between two approaches to depicting time-trends in fertility - the period and cohort perspectives - and discusses why it is that the existence of two approaches presents a ... -
An ethnography of crime in Belfast
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1996)In an earlier paper to the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland in Dublin, we provided a statistical comparison of trends in indictable crime in both parts of Ireland between 1945 and 1993 set against other ... -
Competition and regulatory reform in public utility industries: issues and prospects
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1996)Throughout the world the electricity, gas and telecommunications industries have undergone dramatic changes over the past twenty years. These changes have involved a major re-appraisal of the role of government regulation ... -
Crime in Ireland since the Second World War
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1996)Over two decades of terrorism have given Northern Ireland the image of being a violent, crime-torn country. Belfast is associated in imagery with the bomb and the bullet, with Beirut and Bosnia and all other alliterations ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: one hundred and forty-ninth session -1995/96
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EMU and Ireland's sterling trade
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1996)Trade with the UK is one of the oldest Irish economic policy issues. It remains highly topical today. When Ireland, on joining the EMS in 1979, broke the currency link with Sterling there were fears of negative implications ...
