Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job satisfaction, etc. across countries or socio-economic groups is often hampered by the fact that different ...
Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job satisfaction, etc. across countries or socio-economic groups is often hampered by the fact that different ...
This paper describes the development, in an Irish context, of a 3-factor, 28-item version the Systemic Clinical Outcome and Routine Evaluation (SCORE) questionnaire for assessing progress in family therapy. The 40-item ...
This note shows a very simple way to incorporate the effects of uncertainty about the accuracy of present value estimates into the firm's option to delay irreversible investment. It is shown that, if the firm's priors about ...
This paper presents a comprehensive theoretical and methodological framework clarifying the relationship between non-market environmental valuation techniques, in particular hedonic and life-satisfaction methods. The paper ...
Although many cities have guidelines on the quantity of green open space that should accompany residential development, there is less guidance on the type or facilities of these spaces. The study uses an approach to determine ...
Denny, Kevin(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-07)
I show a simple back-of-the-envelope method for calculating marginal effects in binary
choice and count data models. The approach suggested here focuses attention on
marginal effects at different points in the distribution ...
Should radical egalitarians operating in contemporary capitalist democracies use political
violence to achieve their aims? Purely consequentialist arguments provide too simple
an answer. Machiavelli's perspective is more ...
Purpose - This paper examines the impact of social media (including social networking technologies) on migration strategies and integration, focusing on the use of new technologies for information seeking and dissemination, ...
Objective: To assess utilization of ambulatory visits to primary care physicians (PCPs) and to specialists in 2 different managed care models: a closed
panel gatekeeper health maintenance organization (HMO) and an open ...
Examines the relationship between employment prospects and the vocational training policy of the European Economic Community. Mobility of skilled labor; Equilibrium of labor demand and supply; Interconnection between labor ...
Hogan, Vincent (Vincent Peter)(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003-04)
The reservation wage is an integral part of most theories of involuntary unemployment. We use panel data to examine the empirical determinants of the reservation wage - in particular the influence of previous wages - and ...
We use panel data to examine the empirical determinants of the reservation wage– in
particular the influence of previous wages– and consider what this implies for the evolution of
the natural rate of unemployment. We ...
Walsh, Brendan M.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1994-05)
The aim of this paper is to review, in a broad historical context, what we know about the behaviour of Irish wage rates relative to those in Britain. Attention will be focused on the long-run effects of emigration and the ...