The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 23, No. 4, July, 1992

 

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  • State, family and compulsory schooling in Ireland 

    Fahey, Tony (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
    Legal sanctions to compel parents into sending their children more regularly to school were widely applied in Ireland from the 1920s to the 1950s, following which the practice declined substantially and changed in nature ...

  • Shaping educational debate: a case study and an interpretation 

    O'Sullivan, Denis (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
    The contribution of American economist, A. Dale Tussing, to the penetration of Irish policy paradigms governing the funding of education is presented as a case study of how a cultural stranger can, by a process of cultural ...

  • Measuring the contribution of product quality to competitiveness: a note on theory and policy 

    Hitchens, D. M. W. N.; Wagner, K.; Birnie, J. E. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)
    In this note estimates are given for the importance of quality as an explanation of the comparative productivity shortfall of Northern Ireland (NI) firms relative to their West German counterparts and the method of estimation ...