The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 29, No. 3, July, 1998
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Medical insurance, community rating, and adverse selection: an overlapping generations perspective
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1998)This paper analyses the demand for medical insurance using an overlapping generations model. It is shown that the rate of interest and the age structure of the insured population jointly determine whether a typical fully ... -
Worklife mobility typologies as background to current class position : a research note
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1998)Retrospective job history data from a large probability sample of males in Northern Ireland is used to construct four typologies of intragenerational occupational mobility. The four typologies are based upon: (1) a Class ... -
A community of communities? similarity and difference in Welsh rural community studies
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1998)Work in the community studies tradition has been accused of perpetuating a static, over-integrated conception of community. Recent critics of communitarian thought similarly attack the idea of community for its exclusiveness, ... -
Income tax cuts and inflation in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1998)A two sector model of the Irish economy is used to analyse whether either temporarily or permanently deferring reductions in labour tax rates would cut inflation in the short run. If the deferral of tax cuts is seen as ...