We show in a monopsony model that accounting for changes in hours a minimum wage has ambiguous effects on employment and welfare. When all workers have the same preference ordering over leisure and consumption employment ...
Asset prices can be prone to large movements, and this year we have seen this in equity prices and commodity prices, including oil. Recent volatility of around 2 per cent per day in oil prices has led to uncertainty for ...
Barry, Frank(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1989-04)
In this paper a sector-specific disturbance generates unemployment that co-exists with relatively high wages in the adversely-affected industry. Previous analyses have interpreted this unemployment as "classical" in nature, ...
Barry, Frank(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1995-02)
Wage stickiness is frequently cited as a justification (temporary) protection when a sector is hit by an adverse shock. The present paper, rather than assuming arbitrary wage stickiness, instead models it as an outcome of ...
As a part of attempt for phosphorus (P) recovery from P-saturated alum sludge, which was used as a low-cost P-adsorbent in treatment reed bed for wastewater treatment, decolouration of H2SO4 leachate obtained from previous ...
This paper, via the analysis of stated preferences from a nationwide representative survey of 1,100 adults, examines the determinants of preferences
for overall government expenditure and estimates a Seemingly Unrelated ...
This article, via the analysis of stated preferences from a nationwide representative survey of 1149 adults, examines the determinants of preferences for overall government expenditure and estimates a Seemingly Unrelated ...
Despite the increasing coverage and prevalence of equality legislation and the general alignment of key determining characteristics such as educational attainment, gender differentials continue to persist in labour market ...
Deforestation primarily affects developing
countries. Most developing countries share two characteristics: (1) trade liberalization reforms in the last two decades, and (2) weak property rights and limited rule of law. ...
This paper is primarily an attempt to estimate econometric demand equations for beer and spirits in Ireland, but it is hoped that it also sheds light on some of the general considerations involved in empirical demand ...
This article presents estimates of the elasticity of demand for lottery tickets using time series data in which there is variation in the expected value of a lottery ticket induced by rollovers. An important feature of our ...
Moore, Michael J.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1983-06)
This paper examines the impact of monetary and fiscal policies in both the Barro-Grossman model and a neo-Keynesian model which incorporates a bond market. It is shown that there is a unique demand management policy for ...