Browsing Journal Articles by ESRI researchers by Title
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A profile of physiotherapy supply in Ireland
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Bunching of residential building energy performance certificates at threshold values
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Changes in income distributions and the role of tax-benefit policy during the Great Recession: an international perspective
(Wiley, 2016-06-09)In this paper, we examine the impact of the economic crisis and the policy reaction on inequality and relative poverty in four European countries: France, Germany, Ireland and the UK. The period examined, 2008–13, was one ... -
Choice, price and service characteristics in the Irish broadband market
(2013)Using detailed plan-level data, this paper examines the choice, price and quality of broadband services available to consumers in Ireland over time. We find modest geographical (county level) variation in broadband services. ... -
Consumer switching intentions for telecoms services: evidence from Ireland
(Elsevier, 2018-05-04)Despite long-standing market liberalisation and efforts to reduce switching costs, many consumers have never switched telecoms provider. This paper investigates how consumer and service characteristics relate to switching ... -
Credit Availability, Macroprudential Regulations and the House Price-to-rent Ratio
(Elsevier, 2016-06-09)Quantifying the real economy effects of macroprudential policy is important at a time when such measures are increasingly being promoted as central to the prevention of future credit and house price bubbles. Recently, like ... -
Curriculum choices and school-to-work transitions among upper-secondary school leavers in Scotland and Ireland
(Routledge, 19/10/2017)David Raffe was a highly influential figure in the field of transitions research. His work carefully delineated how national institutional policies shape transition processes and outcomes. Curriculum structure and organisation ... -
Determinants of ICT Adoption: Evidence from Firm-level Data
(Routledge, 30/10/2011)We analyse factors driving inter- and intra-firm diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) using data from Irish manufacturing firms over the period 2001 to 2004. We find that the path of ICT diffusion ... -
Disparities in cancer care and costs at the end of life: evidence from England's National Health Service
(Project HOPE, 01/07/2017)In universal health care systems such as the English National Health Service, equality of access is a core principle, and health care is free at the point of delivery. However, even within a universal system, disparities ... -
The Distributional Effects of Value Added Tax in Ireland
(2011)In this paper we examine the distributional effects of Value Added Tax (VAT) in Ireland. Using the 2004/2005 Household Budget Survey, we assess the amount of VAT that households pay as a proportion of weekly disposable ... -
Early mobile phone ownership: Influencing the wellbeing of girls and boys in Ireland?
(Routledge, 2020-02-07)Children live in a technology-mediated world, and most young people use a variety of technologies in their daily lives. However, despite intense public discourse, we have little empirical evidence on how technology use ... -
Economic Regulation: Recentralisation of Power or Improved Quality of Regulation?
(Economic and Social Studies, 13/07/2011)The October 2009 Government Statement on Economic Regulation proposes a number of sensible reforms that are likely to improve regulatory performance in energy, airports, telecommunications, postal services and transport. ... -
Educational expansion and overeducation of young graduates: A comparative analysis of 30 European countries
(ESRI, 2020-01-27)This study uses quarterly EU Labour Force Survey data for 30 countries over the period 2000 to 2016 to examine the relationship between changes in the composition of educational attainment and overeducation rates among new ... -
Event-related potentials discriminate familiar and unusual goal outcomes in 5-month-olds and adults
(31/10/2017)Previous event-related potential (ERP) work has indicated that the neural processing of action sequences develops with age. Although adults and 9-month-olds use a semantic processing system, perceiving actions activates ... -
Exploring the spatial and temporal determinants of gas central heating adoption
(Elsevier, 15/02/2018)In order to better understand the potential for both policy and technological improvements to aid carbon abatement, long-term historical information on the time-path of transition from more traditional to cleaner fuels is ...
