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 ...
The standard derivation of the accelerationist Phillips curve relates expected real wage inflation to the unemployment rate and invokes a constant price markup and adaptive expectations to generate the accelerationist price ...
In this paper, we are interested in the effect of pay incentives on labour
turnover and productivity. Particularly we use personnel data from a panel of 400 shops from a UK retail chain. The firm uses perfectly flat ...
This paper examines the two-sector general equilibrium model under a variety of labor-market distortions, including minimum wages and factor price differentials (both absolute and proportional). We introduce a new concept ...
The ramifications of the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling temperatures straddling several centuries in northwestern Europe, reach far beyond meteorology into economic, political, and cultural history. The LIA has
spawned ...
This paper examines the change in welfare in Ireland over the 1987- 1994 period by investigating whether Lorenz and Generalised Lorenz dominance can be observed for household expenditure data. It also calculates bootstrapped ...
Direct support payments to farmers are increasingly likely to be in the form of agri-environmental payments. This paper reviews the resultes of two studies undertaken in the Southern Uplands of Scotland, a contingent ...
Walsh, Brendan M.(The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2008-01-24)
In the first half of this paper I summarise the trend in Irish deaths rates over the period 1973-2006. In the second half I discuss some possible explanations of these trends.
When the information of an agent is represented as a sigma algebra on a probability space, iterative public announcement of an aggregate statistic on posteriors leads to convergence of each agent's posterior distribution ...
The standard public economics analysis of the welfare cost of labour income taxation is based on the estimation of labour supply functions that treat unemployed individuals as non-participants. This paper applies econometric ...
This paper estimates the demand for lottery tickets using pooled cross section data that contain individual incomes and extensive information about characteristics. One of the cross sections corresponded to a draw which ...