Browsing Economic and Social Review by Subject "Government policy"

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  • Evaluating state programmes: ?natural experiments? and propensity scores 

    Conniffe, Denis; Gash, Vanessa; O'Connell, Philip J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2000)
    Evaluations of programmes ? for example, labour market interventions such as employment schemes and training courses ? usually involve comparison of the performance of a treatment group (recipients of the programme) with ...

  • State, competition and industrial change in Ireland 1991-1999 

    O Riain, Sean (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2004)
    As job losses increased rapidly in 2003 amid calls for increased competitiveness, it becomes all the more crucial to understand the character and causes of such industrial upgrading that did occur in Ireland in the 1990s. ...