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Now showing items 1234-1253 of 1942
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1983-11)The Barro-Grossman/Malinvaud model is extended to include two factors of production: skilled labour with a flexible price and unskilled labour with an exogenously determined money wage. A number of simple diagrams are ...
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(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2000-08-11)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-12-11)Almost twenty-five years after the appearance of Dixit and Stiglitz’s paper on monopolistic competition and optimum product diversity, I try to take stock of the progres which has been made in applying their approach to ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1984-03)This paper models monopoly markets on which demand is addictive as defined by Stigler and Becker; and hence dynamic. It is shown that the monopolists' equilibrium is unique and stable and the time path taken to reach it ...
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(Macmillan Reference, 2007)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-11)A monopsony model of the labour market is developed where wages and the effort level are chosen by the firm. Higher wages raise labour supply while higher effort reduces it. Wages will be below the socially optimal level ...
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(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2006-02)In this paper we study the production and pricing of a good by a single supplier (such as a monopolist or government) under some given optimality criterion--for example, profit maximization or social benefit maximization. ...
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(Lilliput Press, 2003)
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(Institute for the Study of Labor, 2004-08)Among the perceived inputs in the “production” of child quality is family size; there is an extensive theoretical literature that postulates a tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a family. However, there is ...
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(MIT Press Journals, Massachusets Institute, 2005-05)There is an extensive theoretical literature that postulates a trade-off between child quantity and quality within a family. However, there is little causal evidence that speaks to this theory. Using a rich data set on the ...
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(Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Economic History Society, 2002)Debate about the adequacy of public action during the Great Irish Famine is hampered by a lack of detailed information on its impact at local level. This study addresses the question of local agency with a case study of ...
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(University College Dublin, School of Economics, 2001-05)
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(Elsevier, 2013-05)The recent economic crisis has demonstrated the extent to which households are exposed to the financialisation of advanced economies. Much of the debate surrounding the reasons for the crisis has centred on the role of ...
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(Springer, 2007)There have been occasional ad hoc efforts to influence consumer behaviour by the imposition of product taxes that reflect external costs imposed by such products that are not initially included in their price. In the spirit ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2004-02)Focussing on recent UK graduates, a wage gap of 12% is found. The unexplained component of the gap is small and a large fraction of the gap can be explained by subject choice, job characteristics, motivation and expectation ...
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(Foundation for Fiscal Studies, 2001)
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(2011-04-01)The present study aimed to answer the following research question: What are children’s experiences of transitions to new classrooms in childcare settings? A short-term longitudinal study in Dublin, Ireland followed 7 ...
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(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003)This paper analyses intergenerational educational mobility using survey data for twenty countries. We find that a number of interesting patterns emerge. Estimating a measure of mobility as movement and an index of mobility ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-05)This paper analyses intergenerational educational mobility using survey data for twenty countries. We find that a number of interesting patterns emerge. Estimating a measure of mobility as movement and an index of mobility ...
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(Blackwell, 2009-02)This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals becomes less elastic ...
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