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3rd sinn fein party - 1923-1926
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)The Republican party that was organized under the name 'Sinn Fein' after the end of the civil war, while initially relatively successful, failed to obtain the majority support essential, not only for the implementation of ... -
3rd-sinn fein party - 1923-1926
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1969)The recent commemoration of the fiftieth anniversaries of the Easter Rising and the meeting o f the First Dail firearm have done much to focus attention on this stormy watershed of modern Irish history and politics. The ... -
A bayesian look at consumption
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: This paper assesses various possible explanations for savings behaviour in Ireland during the 1960s and 1970s. Attempts to discriminate between these rival hypotheses have been hampered by multicollinearity. This ... -
A comparison of the bounds, beta-approximate, and exact variants of 2 tests for heteroscedasticity based on ordinary least-squares residuals
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)Precis: This paper compares the small sample empirical size, power and incidence of inconclusiveness of the bounds tests for heteroscedasticity proposed by Szroeter (1978) and Harrison and McCabe (1979). It also examines ... -
A new look at the irish land question
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)Behind the land question in nineteenth century Ireland lie two different conceptions of property and hence of landlord-tenant relations. One reflects communal notions and stresses tenants' prescriptive rights; the other ... -
A note on a proposed census-based irish social-class scale for epidemiological health research
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: The social class/prestige scales currently used in Irish research are examained and considered unsuitable for epidemiological research as they are not census-based. The historical development of Socio-Economic ... -
A note on the sectoral employment pattern
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1981)The theory proposed by Cogan (1978) that the sectoral employment pattern is likely to reach a "steady state" is re-examined. It is suggested that there is no theoretical basis for such a state and that there is a considerable ... -
A note upon localism and party solidarity - the transfer of votes in the udaras-na-gaeltachta election of 1979
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1984)Two important features of the Irish electoral system are localism and party solidarity. The electorate, particularly in rural areas, expect their representatives to look after their specific local interests and are therefore ... -
A preliminary econometric investigation of the irish housing-market, 1969-1976
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1982)Precis: Recent modelling developments in the housing economics literature are reviewed and drawn on to construct a national housing model for Ireland. The model is estimated on quarterly data over the' period 1969-1976. ... -
A study of replacement ratios among a sample of unemployed workers
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: This study reports the findings of an examination of the actual benefits to earnings (replacement) ratio experience among a sample of unemployed workers. Previous Irish studies in this area have been at the ... -
A symmetric alternative to geary and john expression of product changes
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Absenteeism at national school - educational, medical and social aspects
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1975)This study of a small sample of national school absentees suggests that such absentees are characterised by high levels of economic and emotional insecurity, and by educational retardation. It thus supports the control ... -
Accessibility and urban-growth rates - evidence for the irish urban system
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1984)Urban growth is a complicated process and any quantitative analysis is unlikely to replicate growth rates very well. This paper explores one particular relationship in the context of Irish urban centres, that between growth ... -
Activation in Ireland: An Evaluation of the National Employment Action Plan
(ESRI, 13/05/2011)Since early 2008 there has been a severe deterioration in the Irish economy, which has had major knock-on implications for the labour market. Unemployment increased from around 4.5 per cent at the end of 2007 to over ... -
An Agenda for a New Ireland
(Social Justice Ireland, 2010)This Review presents a narrative outlining what happened over recent decades to bring Ireland to where it is today, where exactly Ireland finds itself now, where Ireland should go into the future and what it needs to do ... -
Allais, Maurice - Nobel-Prize winner in Economics 1988
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Alternative techniques of estimating import demand elasticities
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)The desirability as well as the difficulty of obtaining reliable estimates of import demand elasticities is clearly demonstrated by the extensive literature on the subject during the last few decades. Interest in price ... -
Analysing Pensions: Modelling and Policy Issues
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Ascribed Versus Achieved Social Status of CEOs and its Relationship with M&A Activities
(2011)Using a sample of CEOs of FTSE companies during a ten-year period from 2001 to 2010, we explore merger and acquisition activities from the perspective of social status theory. It investigates the influence of CEO social ...
