Browsing Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969- by Title
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166 who rule - the dail deputies of november 1982
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1984)Abstract: Analysis of the backgrounds of the Dail deputies elected in November 1982 shows certain strong similarities with previous Dala. Most deputies were born in their constituencies, and most were local authority members ... -
2 exercises in simple regression
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1972)While the two exercises are independent in that they purport to answer separate questions, methodologically they are very similar. They both compare the efficiency of different methods of estimation of parameters by the ... -
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 2nd-order factor-analysis of the reliability and validity of the 11 plus examination in Northern Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1987)In Northern Ireland the transition from primary to secondary education is a critical process since the type of secondary school attended is a powerful determinant of the life-chances of individuals. In Northern Ireland ... -
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 co-integration based analysis of Irish purchasing power parity relationships using the Johansen procedure
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1994)Empirical work has found little evidence for purchasing power parity, specified as a long-run co-integrating relationship between Ireland and trading partners. Using Irish/UK and Irish/German data, we find evidence for ... -
A code of practice for grocery goods undertakings and an Ombudsman: how to do a lot of harm by trying to do a little good
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2009)The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in its August 2009 Consultation Paper, Code of Practice for Grocery Goods Undertakings, argues that a Code governing grocery supplier/retailer relations, enforced by an ... -
A community of communities? similarity and difference in Welsh rural community studies
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1998)Work in the community studies tradition has been accused of perpetuating a static, over-integrated conception of community. Recent critics of communitarian thought similarly attack the idea of community for its exclusiveness, ... -
A comparative perspective on trends in income inequality in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2000)Both overall income inequality and inequality in the distribution of earnings rose sharply during the 1980s and 1990s in a number of industrialised countries, notably the UK and the USA. This makes it particularly important ... -
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 critical evaluation of the Danish national ICT strategy
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1997)The Danish government is committed to a national information and communication technology strategy. The strategy is compared to the European Information Society initiative and the US National Information Infrastructure ... -
A dynamic model of the relationship between income and financial satisfaction: evidence from Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2008)The link between income and subjective satisfaction with one?s financial situation is explored in this paper using a panel analysis of 1,998 individuals tracked through the course of the boom period in Ireland, 1994-2001. ... -
A firm-level study of strike propensity in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1998)This paper presents a wage-bargaining model in which strikes occur due to imperfect information. The predictions are tested on a unique Irish firm-level data set which is based on the 25th wage round. The results indicate ... -
A flow analysis of the Irish Live Register
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1994)This paper makes use for the first time of data on the flows into and out of the Irish Live Register. It describes the construction of consistent quarterly flow series for the period 1967 to 1993. The analysis suggests ... -
A Formal Investigation of Inequalities in Health Behaviours After Age 50 on the Island of Ireland
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A life cycle labour supply model with taxes estimated on German panel data: the case of parallel preferences
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)We estimate Frisch labour supply functions for married women using information on desired hours, under the assumptions that these are based on a smooth convex approximation of the budget constraint. The minimum distance ... -
A MAIDS model of Irish meat demand
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1996)This paper estimates the demand for meats in Ireland using the newly developed Modified Almost Ideal Demand System or MAIDS model of Cooper and McLaren (1992). This model nests the Almost Ideal System as a special case and ... -
A new fiscal strategy for Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2009)Around the world, fiscal policy has been accorded a prominent role in the debate on responding to the sharp economic slowdown. In large part, this reflects the limited effectiveness of monetary policy, once policy rates ... -
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 ...