Do people care more about the environment as their income increases? In this paper we use micro data to tackle this question in two different ways. We first look at the correlation between income and attitudes towards the ...
In establishing effective restoration goals, one of the four key issues of increased attention that Hobbs calls for is in the area of incorporating socio-economic investigations and theories into restoration practice in a ...
The commonly used Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU) on the Internet has
remained unchanged for many years at around 1500 bytes due mainly to
backward compatibility issues. This is in contrast with link data rate,
which has ...
This paper presents a simple statistical exercise to provide a benchmark for the degree of electoral stagnation without direct officeholder benefits or challenger scare-off effects. Here electoral stagnation arises solely ...
In December 2001, the Laeken European Council adopted a set of commonly agreed and defined indicators for social inclusion. These should play a central role in monitoring the performance of Member States in making progress ...
This paper examines the role of price in health insurance coverage decisions within the family to guide policy in promoting whole family coverage. We analyze the factors that affect individual health insurance coverage ...
This paper reports the results of a nationally representative survey that explored willingness to pay extra taxes for increased levels of social transfers in Ireland. Respondents differ in their interpretation of ...
This paper reports the results of a nationally representative survey that assessed individual and household willingness to pay extra taxes for increased levels of social transfers in Ireland. Different respondents interpret ...
Using Polish Labour Force Survey data, we examine whether competition for labour has
induced individual pay to depend on outside options, availability and quality of jobs.
Exploiting the lack of inter-regional job and ...
The purpose of the paper is to determine how much of the employment in the Marketed Services Sector (MSS) is generated directly and indirectly by the demand for output of the Goods Producing Sectors (GPS), namely, agriculture, ...
Bradley, John(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
This paper follows from another study, which showed that the industrial structures in the Republic and Northern Ireland are very different—the former with a cluster of modern high technology sectors, the latter retaining ...