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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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(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2002-05)In this note we study the implications on a bivariate normal Roy Model of two sets of monotonicity hypotheses proposed recently by Manski and Pepper (2000). In that simple context, we show that these hypotheses imply strong ...
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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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(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. Geary Institute, 2007-06-12)Low birth weight has considerable short and long-term consequences and leads to high costs to the individual and society even in a developed economy. Low birth weight is partially a consequence of choices made by the ...
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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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(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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Multi-criteria and Decision Support Systems in support of the Water Framework Directive in Ireland (2006-04)The current challenge in the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Ireland is to introduce programmes of measures that will address the targeted environmental objectives in each River Basin District (RBD). ...
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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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(University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2006-12)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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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1995-10)In trade studies Ireland emerges as having a revealed comparative disadvantage in labour-intensive industries. Can the country's unusual industrial structure contribute to our understanding of its high unemployment? The ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-05-05)We present a new model of multi-product firms (MPFs) and flexible manufacturing and explore its implications in partial and general equilibrium. International trade integration affects the scale and scope of MPFs through ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1995-01)
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