The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 40, No. 1, Spring, 2009: Recent submissions
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Social partnership, competitiveness and exit from fiscal crisis
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)The contribution of social partnership to Ireland?s economic boom remains the subject of controversy. This paper analyses at a theoretical level how a multi-period deal on wages and taxation of the type struck in the late ... -
Evaluating opportunities when people are uncertainty averse
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)We consider the problem of ranking sets of alternatives. Standard approaches to this problem regard the addition of an alternative to a set containing one element as enhancing choice. We argue that this monotonicity axiom ... -
Non-cash benefits and the distribution of economic welfare
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)Non-cash benefits can have substantial effects on the distribution of economic welfare. Standard approaches to the inclusion of non-cash benefits in broader measures of resources have failed to take adequate account of the ... -
Job mobility in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)This paper investigates the factors that determine job-to-job mobility in Ireland over the period 1995 to 2001. It finds that labour market experience, working in the public sector, whether a person is overskilled, the ... -
The determinants of higher education participation in Ireland: a micro analysis
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)In this paper we present a theoretical model of higher education participation in Ireland. Utilising the Living in Ireland Survey data we model the impact of costs (direct and indirect), the estimated life cycle returns, ...