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Calculation of gini and theil inequality coefficients for Irish household incomes in 1973 and 1980
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1985)The exact values of Gini and Theil inequality coefficients calculated on the basis of discrete data are provided for direct, gross, disposable and final (i.e., after all taxes and State benefits) Irish household incomes ... -
Can we infer external effects from a study of the Irish indirect tax system?
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)This paper estimates implied external effects for the Irish indirect tax system for the year 1987. The study uses the inverse optimum technique of Christiansen and Jansen (1978) which estimates implied external effects, ... -
Capital adequacy requirements, deposit insurance and bank behaviour
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)As financial market regulations have been eliminated over the past decade, the fragility of the international financial system has been exposed. In turn, this has generated interest in the design of prudential regulations ... -
Capital formation, technical change and labour productivity improvement - analysis of a cross-section of Irish manufacturing industries 1953-1967
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)The recent economic literature has given a good deal of attention to the analysis of production and technical change. During the second half of the 1950's, Solow published his path-breaking article on the causes of labour ... -
Car ownership and mode of transport to work in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)Rapid economic and demographic change in Ireland over the last decade, with associated increases in car dependence and congestion, has focused policy on encouraging more sustainable forms of travel. In this context, ... -
Care provision and dependency in long-stay institutions
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1997)This paper investigates the empirical relationship between the dependency characteristics of elderly residents and the amount of care provided by health care professionals in a selected number of long-stay institutions in ... -
Centres of research excellence in economics in the Republic of Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2007)Using publication, citation and h-numbers from the Scopus and Web of Science databases, we find that research output and academic influence of economists in the Republic of Ireland are heavily skewed by researcher and by ... -
Centres of research excellence in economics in the Republic of Ireland - correction of an erratum
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2008)In transcription Professor Donal O'Neill of NUI Maynooth was omitted from Table 5 of Ruane and Tol (2007) ???Centres of Research Excellence in the Republic of Ireland??, The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. ... -
Challenging collectivist traditions: individualism and the management of industrial relations in greenfield sites
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1997)This paper explores developments in industrial relations and Human Resource Management (HRM) in newly established ("greenfield") companies in the Republic of Ireland as a means of informing the debate on changing patterns ... -
Chance in preferential voting systems - an unacceptable element in Irish electoral law
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1984)The single transferable vote system of proportional representation as operated in elections to Dail Eireann is one of the most sophisticated electoral systems, maximising the capacity of the voter to determine the outcome ... -
Change in a product between 2 states as the symmetrical sum of changes in each of its factors
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)This paper is concerned with the algebraic problem of expressing the change in a product purely in terms of changes in its factors; denoting two states by 1 and 2 (indicated by superscripts) and defining variables X; (i = ... -
Change in the rate and pattern of religious intermarriage in the Republic of Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)Earlier attempts to estimate the rate and to establish the patterns of religious intermarriage in the Republic of Ireland have been limited by a lack of data. This paper presents new findings on intermarriage using previously ... -
Changes in relative consumer prices and the substitution bias of the Laspeyres price index: Ireland, 1985-2001
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)This paper shows that Irish relative consumer prices have changed significantly, 1985-2001, at the ten commodity-group level. A ?true? cost-of-living index is derived from Madden?s (1993) parameter estimates for an Almost ... -
Changing regional pattern in ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)Draw a line down the Shannon, bend and extend it to the north east to include Longford and the Ulster counties, add Kerry and perhaps West Cork, and one obtains the traditional dividing line of Ireland. 'The West', the ... -
Child protection practice: an ungovernable enterprise?
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)This paper reports on a research study carried out in 1993/94, on the child protection practices of a social work team employed by a regional health board. The aim of the study was to challenge the assumption underlying ... -
Child sexual abuse in the Eastern Health Board region of Ireland in 1988: an analysis of 512 confirmed cases
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1991)This paper reports some of the findings of a study of child sexual abuse in the Eastern Health Board region of Ireland. Data were supplied by Community Care Social Workers on all cases (990) known to them in 1988. By year ... -
Class inequalities in educational attainment among the adult population in the Republic of Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)Substantial increases in participation rates at secondary and third level in recent years have often been assumed to be associated with increased equality of opportunity. However, there is little evidence from elsewhere ... -
Clientelism and careerism in Irish local-government - the persecution of civil-servants revisited
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1985)The relationship between elected politicians, local civil servants and the public has been a standard topic of Irish political science for decades. The usual characterisation of the relationship between the voter and the ... -
?Collaborative production? and the Irish boom: work organisation, partnership and direct involvement in Irish workplaces
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2000)A significant strand of recent social-scientific writing on Ireland has assigned great importance to various forms of ?collaborative production?: new forms of work organisation, partnership and direct employee involvement ... -
Comment on "Dangers for Ireland of an EMU without the UK: some calibration results" by Frank Barry
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)In the October 1997 issue of this journal Barry set out a simple model of the Irish economy. The model was designed to quantify the possible effects on Ireland of sterling weakness, where Ireland is a member of the EMU and ...