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(Emerald Group, 2006)Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the critical role fiscal incentives have played in urban regeneration in Ireland since 1986, focusing on the role of such incentives, their impact on development and implications for ...
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(Blackwell Publishing on behalf of Institute for Fiscal Studies, 1992-02)It has been nearly 2 years since the UK government reformed the system of local business rates to introduce a uniform business rate (UBR), but the debate continues over the merits of the new system. The change across regions ...
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(University College Dublin. Department of Planning and Environmental Policy, 2006-05)This paper models annual new car average CO2 emissions intensity in EU Member States over the period 1995-2004. It attempts to explore the relationship, if any, between national vehicle and fuel taxes and the EU voluntary ...
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The Politics of Tough Budgets – Fiscal Responses to Crisis in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and Greece (2012-04-27)The global financial crisis opened large budget deficit and public debt problems in the countries of the Eurozone periphery - Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain. All have been required to adopt budget retrenchment measures, ...
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(Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2000-02-24)This paper analyses levels of low literacy across twelve countries using the International Adult Literacy Survey. We go beyond existing work that only looks at the proportions below certain critical levels of literacy. ...
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(Foundation for Fiscal Studies, 2000)
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(Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2004-07)This paper uses cross section data to investigate whether the returns to education vary with the level of ability. Using a measure of cognitive ability based on tests taken at ages 7 and 11 we find, unlike most of the ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-02)We examine the usefulness of the Expansionary Fiscal Contraction hypothesis in explaining the performance of the Irish and Danish economies. We find some evidence in favour of a weak version of the EFC hypotheisis: If the ...
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(Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2003-03)This paper uses the measures of basic skills (or functional literacy) in the International Adult Literacy Survey to examine the impact of education and basic skills on earnings across a large number of countries. We show ...
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(Foundation for Fiscal Studies, 1998)