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(Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association, 2007)In most countries health policy is an important part of the political agenda. Yet few studies have examined the relationship between the two. This study investigates the association between health and voter turnout in ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-12-15)We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to determine whether raising the diffculty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED ...
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(WebSci, 2010-04-26)The task of identifying sentiment trends in the popular media has long been of interest to analysts and pundits. Until recently, this task has required professional annotators to manually inspect individual articles in ...
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(Institute of Public Administration, 2000)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-11)The Eurosystem’s TARGET2 payments system has featured heavily in academic and popular discussions in recent years. Much of this commentary had described the system as being responsible for a “secret bailout” of Europe’s ...
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(Elsevier, 2011-09)Urgent transformation is required in Ireland to divert biodegradable municipal waste (BMW) from landfill and prevent increases in overall waste generation. When BMW is optimally managed, it becomes a resource with value ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2000-10)In 1997 the Irish government adopted the National Anti-Poverty Strategy (NAPS), a global target for the reduction of poverty which illuminates a range of issues relating to official poverty targets. The Irish target is ...
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(Economic and Social Research Institute, 1999-07-14)In 1997 the Irish Government adopted the National Anti-Poverty Strategy (NAPS), a global target for the reduction of poverty which illuminates a range of issues relating to official poverty targets. The Irish target is ...
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(Springer-Verlag, 2013-01)Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-α is a pro-inflammatory cytokine, which is synthesised and released in the brain by astrocytes, microglia and neurons in response to numerous internal and external stimuli. It is involved in ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1987-03)This paper begins by reexamining the equivalence of tariffs and quantitative trade restrictions. It is argued that equivalence holds in extremely general circumstances but that this fact must be interpreted with care, since ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-04-05)The debate over the use of tariffs or value added taxes in developing countries has focused on the difficulty of collecting VAT from the informal sector of the economy. This paper contributes by considering this issue ...
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(University of Chicago Press, 2000)In this article, I evaluate the hypothesis that firms respond to negative demand shocks by assigning workers to tasks that require less skill than the tasks they normally carry out. Using changes in employment in state-industry ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1987-11)
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(Fraser Institute, 2003)
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(Gill & Macmillan, 2000)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-08)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-10)By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993-05)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2008-11)This paper empirically examines whether expansion of the EU has increased international tax competition. To do so, we use a simple model of tax competition to determine how a given country weights the taxes of others ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-04)In this paper I examine dynamic tax competition in the context of an endogenous market structure. I therefore consider the tensions between proximity versus concentration, taxation and firm mobility while I also consider ...
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