The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 31, No. 2, April, 2000

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Job generation and regional industrial policy in Ireland

Meyler, Aidan; Strobl, Eric (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2000)

Irish industrial policy explicitly encouraged job generation in certain ?designated? areas via, amongst other things, preferential grant treatment, job targets and the building of advance factories in the IDA?s (Industrial ...
The impact of contracting out on the costs of refuse collection services: the case of Ireland

Reeves, Eoin; Barrow, Michael (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2000)

This paper examines the impact of contracting out on the costs incurred by local authorities in providing refuse collection services. Using original survey data for the Republic of Ireland, three methods of estimating the ...