Whelan, Karl(2004 Copyright Central Bank of Ireland, 2004-10)
The one-sector Solow-Ramsey growth model informs how most modern researchers characterize macroeconomic trends and cycles, and evidence supporting the model's
balanced growth predictions is often cited. This paper shows, ...
Recent analyses of Ireland's marital fertility transition based on the Princeton Ig and the Stanford CPA measures are reassessed. Revised county estimates of Ig are subjected to regression analysis, and added insight into ...
Denny, Kevin(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-04)
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. ...
Denny, Kevin(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. ...
Denny, Kevin(Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Royal Statistical Society, 2002)
This paper analyses levels of low literacy across 12 countries by using the International Adult Literacy Survey. We go beyond existing work that only looks at the proportions below certain critical levels of literacy. Using ...
This paper outlines developments in participatory politics in Northern Ireland and draws some comparisons with Scotland. The section on Northern Ireland covers
traditions of civic activism which led to efforts to ensure ...
This paper provides a new set of consumer demand estimates for Ireland, incorporating a variety of different consumer demand models. Own-price and expenditure elasticities are presented and tests of the propositions implied ...
Is the observed correlation between current and lagged inflation a function of backward-looking inflation expectations, or do the lags in inflation regressions merely proxy for rational forward-looking expectations, as in ...
The main objectives of social assistance bene fits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social reintegration, can be seriously compromised if support is difficult to access.
While recent studies point to ...
This paper addresses the question of whether Non-Cash benefits significantly affect the estimated poverty rates. It carefully considers how the benefits could be measured and concluded that there is relatively little change ...
UK data is used to test the hypothesis that non-interest terms adjust to clear the mortgage market when the mortgage rate is sluggish in adjusting to its market equilibrating level. This hypothesis is not supported by the ...
The purpose of this study is to set out detailed proposals to examine empirically the state of competition within the nonlife insurance market in Ireland and its effects on consumers. The focus will be on motor, public ...
This paper shows that nonlinearity can provide an explanation for the forward
exchange rate anomaly (Fama, 1984). Using sterling-Canadian dollar data, and modelling nonlinearity of unspecified form by means of a random ...
We simulate a hypothetical family tax credit on a sample of French couples, using jointly a collective model of labor supply and a tax-benefit calculator. Work behaviors represent here a general concept of “effort,” and ...