Browsing JSSISI: 1993 to 1998, Vol. XXVII, Sessions 147th to 151st by Title
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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 ... -
Aspects of foreign direct investment in Irish manufacturing since 1973: policy and performance
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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 ... -
Demand analysis in Irish tourism
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1997)This paper attempts to test conventionally believed hypotheses on a body of relevant data. The study is primarily based on examining the nature of Irish export tourism demand from four of its main generating countries: ... -
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 ... -
The development of official Irish statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)The trail of the development of and responsibility for Official Statistics that I am following in this presentation starts effectively from the Larcom involvement in the 1841 Census of Population (Section 2) and leads to: ... -
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 and social implications of demographic change
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)This Society was founded in the midst of the population crisis caused by the Famine. No crisis on the scale of the Famine occurred again in the Society?s history, but various forms of demographic ?weakness?, such as high ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Economic policy and performance: the Irish experience
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)This year we celebrate not just the 150th anniversary of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland (SSISI). The session 1997-98 also coincides with the 40th anniversary of the founding of the European Community, ... -
Education and economic performance in the OECD countries: an elusive relationship?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)One of the most common political mantras to-day is that education is the handmaiden of economic growth and prosperity. Politicians like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair constantly trumpet the need to invest in education and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Foreword by Professor Dermot McAleese on the occasion of his presidential address
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)This is a good year to be celebrating the 150th anniversary of our Society! The Irish economy continues to boom and prospects remain bright. At first many were sceptical about the Celtic Tiger (as Morgan Stanley christened ... -
Implications for public policy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1997)I would like to thank the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland for inviting me to present a paper at this symposium on Pensions. It is certainly a period of great discussion and debate on pensions and is a ... -
Implications for public policy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1997)The Department of Social Welfare and the Pensions Board commissioned the ESRI to undertake a national survey of pension coverage in 1995. The survey shows that only half of all employees at work are covered by an ...
