RSS 1.0JSSISI: 2012 to 2013, Vol. XLII, 166th Session
Recent Submissions
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Identifying policy impacts in the crisis: Microsimulation evidence on tax and welfare
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)Ireland?s banking, property and fiscal crises, combined with a worldwide Great Recession have had severe implications for household incomes. Particular attention has focused on how incomes at various levels have been ... -
Effects of R&D spending on innovation by Irish and foreign-owned businesses
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)This paper estimates the private returns to four different kinds of R&D spending on the probability of Irish and foreign-owned businesses engaging in product, process and organizational innovation. By providing econometric ... -
The impact of changes in educational attainment on life expectancy in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)This article looks at scenarios quantifying the potential contribution of increasing educational attainment to the prospective improvement in life expectancy in Ireland over the next 50 years. This analysis uses recently ... -
Estimating the effects of land-use and catchment characteristics on lake water quality: Irish lakes 2004-2009
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)This paper attributes the variation in water quality across Irish lakes to a range of contributory factors such as human population, septic tanks, urban waste water treatment, phosphorous excreted by livestock, as well as ... -
Politicians, the bureaucracy and economic policymaking over two crises: the 1950s and today
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)Recent reports into the performance of the Central Bank, the Financial Regulator and the Department of Finance in the lead-up to the current crisis identify three key weaknesses: the pressures towards `group think? within ... -
Reform of public policy-making in Ireland
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Researchers imply, policymakers infer: the relationship between evidence and policy
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An inquiry into the declining labour share of national income and the consequences for economies and societies
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)For over three decades, the share of national income going to labour in most countries has been in decline. Conversely, capital?s share of national income has increased. The trend in the decline in labour?s share of income ... -
Northern Ireland Composite Economic Index: Development of a quarterly output measure for NI
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)This paper presents the methodology and results of an experimental Composite Economic Index developed by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). The aim of the Index is to provide a short term measure ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry of Ireland One Hundred and Sixty-Sixth Session: 2012/2013
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)
