The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring, 2004
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Household consumption patterns, indirect tax structures and implications for indirect tax harmonisation: a three country perspective
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2004)The paper compares the indirect tax structures and consumption patterns of three European countries (the UK, Greece and Hungary) and studies the likely distributional impact of a potential convergence of their indirect ... -
Changes in relative consumer prices and the substitution bias of the Laspeyres price index: Ireland, 1985-2001
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2004)This paper shows that Irish relative consumer prices have changed significantly, 1985-2001, at the ten commodity-group level. A ?true? cost-of-living index is derived from Madden?s (1993) parameter estimates for an Almost ... -
Women returning to employment, education and training in Ireland: an analysis of transitions
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2004)Recent improvements in the Irish labour market have led to a substantial increase in the labour force participation rate of women in Ireland. Part of this increase has been fuelled by women moving from the home into paid ... -
State, competition and industrial change in Ireland 1991-1999
(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. ... -
Terence M. Ryan (1942-2003): an appreciation
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2004)Terence M. Ryan died in June 2003. Terry was one of the most promising members of the nouvelle vague of young Irish economists who studied at the University of Essex in the late 1960s and early 1970s. All had graduated in ...