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Now showing items 1764-1783 of 1947
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(Economic and Social Studies, 1989)
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Tests for the macroeconomic effects of large-scale migration based on the Irish experience 1947-87 (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1988-11)This short paper explores the relationship between the rate of migration and the rate of economic growth. A review of the literature shows that there is no unanimity regarding the net effect of migration on economic ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1996-01-18)This paper provides a centenary review of the method of calculating real incomes and purchasing power parities proposed by Roy Geary. This method is the most widely used in major international comparisons, but it is often ...
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(University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2007-03)There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical foundation to ground the debate on the optimality of the different instruments. In the present paper, ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, 2001-12)Environmental Tax Reform (ETR) is widely accepted to be a policy with desirable environmental, and other economic effects. The question arises then as to why its implementation has been so patchy. There is a broad literature ...
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(Elsevier, 2012-08)Historically, cognitive researchers have largely ignored the domain of sport in their quest to understand how the mind works. This neglect is due, in part, to the limitations of the information processing paradigm that ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-05)Ireland’s dramatic economic boom of the 1990s has been referred to as “the era of the Celtic Tiger”. In a little over a decade, real national income per head jumped from 65 percent of the Western European average to above ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1996-03)This paper analyses disaggregative growth models which treat development as progress through a space of commodities, from simple to more complex goods.
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(Blackwell, 1999)This paper estimates the long- and short-run elasticities for Lotto. It is particularly concerned with the dynamic response to price variations since, for some goods, this has sometimes been used to infer the presence of ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-02)This paper examines how time to build alters strategic investment behaviour under oligopoly. Facing demand uncertainty, firms decide whether to invest early or wait until uncertainty has been resolved. A game that captures ...
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(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2003)This paper uses duration analysis to investigate the role of tobacco taxes in starting and quitting smoking. Applying a variety of parametric duration models, including a split population model, to a sample of Irish women, ...
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(Routledge, 2007-03)This article uses duration analysis to investigate the role of tobacco taxes in starting and quitting smoking. Applying a variety of parametric duration models to a sample of Irish women, it finds that in general tobacco ...
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(Irish Academic Press, 2007)
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(Institute for the Study of Labor, 2008-04)Does it matter when a child starts school? While the popular press seems to suggest it does, there is limited evidence of a long-run effect of school starting age on student outcomes. This paper uses data on the population ...
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(University College Dublin; Centre for Economic Research, 2005-11)
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(Taylor & Francis, 2000-12)Most analyses of wage discrimination have followed the traditional Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition of wage differences into endowment and discrimination components. This approach has neglected the possibility of wage ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1999-05)Most analyses of wage discrimination have followed the traditional Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition of wage differences into endowment and discrimination components. This approach has neglected the possibility of wage ...
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(Stationery Office, 1999-04-19)This study reviews assessment / home study practices in respect of inter country adoption in Ireland arising from concerns that the system was causing difficulties for many stakeholders. A framework for improved practices ...
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(Irish Adoption Board, 2003-06-10)The objective of the report is to present draft guidelines for the accreditation and registration by the Irish Adoption Board (Now Adoption Authority of Ireland) of intercountry adoption mediation agencies that are based ...
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(University College Dublin. Department of Planning and Environmental Policy, 2005-03)In theory, farmers’ markets can provide a win-win situation in terms of revitalising rural areas, increasing viability of small and part-time farms, re-connecting the consumer with the source of food, providing good quality ...
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