The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 27, No. 1, October, 1995
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Self-employment and intergenerational transfers of physical and human capital: an empirical analysis of French data
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1995)Using The 1991 French Household Survey of Financial Assets, we examine the determinants of self-employment using data on intergenerational transfers of wealth, education, informal human capital and a range of demographic ... -
Estimating equations with information loss on at least one dependent variable
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1995)Efficient, or joint, estimation of a pair of linear equations with the same explanatory variables reduces to separate estimation of each equation. This is no longer the case if information has been lost on at least one ... -
Multinationals and indigenous employment: an "Irish disease"?
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1995)In trade studies, Ireland emerges as having a revealed comparative disadvantage in labour-intensive industries. Can the country's unusual industrial structure contribute to our understanding of its high unemployment? The ... -
Migration and the option value of waiting
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1995)Migration is an investment: it involves fixed, unrecoverable costs and uncertain future returns. If migration can be postponed, the option value of doing so may have positive value. Migration may not occur for a range of ... -
Female labour force participation and unemployment in Northern Ireland: religion and family effects
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1995)Econometric models of the incidence of economic activity and employment by religion for females in Northern Ireland are presented. Particular attention is paid to family effects. Censored bivariate probit models are estimated ... -
The Great Famine: a simple general equilibrium model
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1995)A general equilibrium model of a poor peasant economy is developed in this paper, one where subsistence is the major concern of many and the absence of a capital market leads to the production possibilities of each agent ...