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?Insufficient for the support of a family?: wages on the public works during the Great Irish Famine
(Economic & Social Studies, 2004)
This paper presents a model of the money wage paid on the public works during the Irish Famine. The administrators are assumed to minimise a cost function that includes the divergence from the target as well as the increase ...
Inter-industry wage differentials in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, 2004)
This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Ireland, taking advantage of
access to a dataset that is uniquely suitable for this purpose, the 1996 Structure of Earnings Survey. This allows us to measure ...
Disability and labour force participation in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, 2004)
The extent and nature of participation in the labour market by persons affected by
disability has a multitude of direct and indirect effects on their living standards and quality of life, and so is a critical area for ...
Equity in the utilisation of health care in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, 2004)
This paper analyses the extent of equity of health service delivery across the income
distribution in Ireland ? that is the extent to which there is equal treatment for equal need
irrespective of income. We find that ...