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COUNCIL MEMBERS' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2021)COUNCIL MEMBERS' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021 -
COUNCIL MEMBERS' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2019
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2020)COUNCIL MEMBERS' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2019 -
Estimating Commodity Substitution Bias in the Irish Inflation Rate Statistics during the Financial Crisis
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2016)Measures such as the Consumer Price Index are important economic indicators setting out price changes in the Irish economy over time. Such measures, however, are subject to various types of measurement bias. The latter ... -
Socio-economic Differentials in Male Mortality in Ireland 1984-2008
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2016)The presence of pronounced inequalities in mortality and life expectancy across income, education and social groups has long been a “stylized fact” of demography. Research across a large number of developed and wealthy ... -
Informal Cost of Dementia Care – A Proxy-Good Valuation in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2011)This paper values the informal costs of dementia care in Ireland based on recently agreed national costing framework. Drawing on a survey of 270 Irish dementia caregivers, the hours of informal care per day are estimated ... -
Exploring the Steady-State Relationship Between Credit and GDP for a Small Open Economy–The Case Of Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2011)The rapid increase in credit in an economy is now commonly perceived to be one of the leading indicators of financial instability. This view has been reinforced by the aftermath of the international financial crisis, which ... -
Linguistic Elitism: the Advantage of Speaking Irish Rather than the Irish-speaker Advantage
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2011)This paper contributes to the discussion of linguistic elitism in this journal (Borooah et al., 2009). Two main questions are addressed. First, most “census Irish speakers” are not in fact Irish speakers and the majority ... -
Determinants of Vegetarianism and Meat Consumption Frequency in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2011)Vegetarianism is increasing in the western world. This trend can be attributed to heightened health, environmental and animal welfare concerns. In this paper we investigate the factors associated with vegetarianism and ... -
Exploring Trends in the Rate of Caesarean Section in Ireland 1999-2007
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2011)This paper explores levels and trends in the prevalence of Caesarean section delivery in Ireland between 1999 and 2007. Over this period the Caesarean section rate for singleton births in Ireland increased by over one ... -
Denis Conniffe – An Obituary
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The Effect of REFIT on Irish Wholesale Electricity Prices
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2011)This paper evaluates the likely effect of REFIT, the Irish scheme to support renewable electricity generation, on the wholesale price of electricity. The cost of REFIT is passed on to Irish consumers. Here we calculate ... -
Competition in Primary Healthcare in Ireland: More and Better Services for Less Money
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2011)Understanding precisely the nature of competition in primary healthcare has an important role to play in understanding how to improve the delivery of healthcare services. This is particularly the case in Ireland, where the ... -
Race-to-the-Bottom or -Top at Home or Abroad: Health and Safety Standards and the Multinational Firm
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2011)We develop a model to illustrate potential complexities in the relationship between corporate geographical diversification and the health and safety (H&S) standards set in national jurisdictions. A firm, that initially has ... -
The Causality Between Economic Growth and Immigration in Germany and Switzerland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2011)This paper analyses the relationship between immigration and the economic growth in Germany and Switzerland during the period 1970-2005 by using a cointegration approach. Both countries have gone through a similar learning ... -
The Life-cycle Impact of Alternative Higher Education Finance Systems in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2011)With increasing numbers of young people participating in higher education in Ireland and a heavy reliance of higher education institutions on State funding, the introduction of an alternative finance system for Ireland has ... -
The Effects of Foreign Aid in Sub-Saharan
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2016)This paper contributes to the aid effectiveness debate by applying a vector autoregression model to a panel of Sub-Saharan African countries. This method avoids the need for instrumental variables and allows one to analyse ... -
Wagner in Ireland: An Econometric Analysis
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The Demand for League of Ireland Football
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Housing Bubbles and Monetary Policy: A Reassessment
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To Weight or Not To Weight? A Statistical Analysis of How Weights Affect the Reliability of the Quarterly National Household Survey for Immigration Research in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2015)
