We use three different quality based rankings of the publishing record of Irish based economists in academic journals during the period 1990-2000 and 1995-2000. While individual rankings are sensitive to the range of ...
In recent years, economists have started using socio-economic and socio-demographic characteristics to explain self-reported individual happiness or satisfaction with life. Using data disaggregated at the individual and ...
The study examines objective indicators associated with quality of life in Ireland. As noted above, these include indicators of environmental quality, income, house prices, health, education and crime. The analysis then ...
Among the many concerns over globalization is that as nations compete for mobile firms, they will relax labour standards as a method of lowering costs and attracting investment.
Using spatial estimation on panel data for ...
Examines differences in medical care expenditures by non-Hispanic Whites, non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanic elderly who were Medicare beneficiaries in the U.S.
Indices ranking the quality of life in cities based on climatic, environmental and urban conditions have a long tradition in the hedonic literature. In this paper we propose an alternative set of indices based on subjective ...
A ban on pricing below cost was implemented under the 1987 Groceries Order based on the premise that loss leading used in multi-product retail pricing distorts competition and exploits consumers in the short run, while ...
Neary, J. Peter(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1999-11-10)
I consider the implications of recent research for R&D policy in developing countries. Typical new growth models, which assume free entry and no strategic behaviour by R&D producers, are less appropriate for policy guidance ...
Hickey, Tina(Editions Phi: Université du Luxembourg, 2011-05)
While Irish has State support in the Republic of Ireland, and is taught as a compulsory school subject from school entry, there is growing concern about a decline in the standard attained in this threatened minority language. ...
Neary, J. Peter(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1982-10)
This paper presents a theoretical analysis of some of the issues raised by the "Dutch Disease": the phenomenon whereby a boom in one traded goods sector squeezes profitability in other traded goods sectors.
Walsh, Brendan M.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1996-03)
This paper examines the Irish macroeconomic adjustment over the period since 1979
with particular reference to the interaction of the real exchange rate with the balance between national saving and investment. The transition ...
Using the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data (NESPD) for the period 1975 to 2001 we
estimate the wage cyclicality of job stayers (those remaining within single jobs in a given company), within company job movers, and ...
Using the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data for 1975-2001, the authors estimate the wage cyclicality (the degree to which wage levels rise and fall with economic upturns and downturns) of three groups: job stayers, ...
Since Friedman (1968), the traditional derivation of the accelerationist Phillips curve has related expected real wage inflation to the unemployment rate and then invoked markup pricing and adaptive expectations to generate ...