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Browsing Economics Working Papers & Policy Papers, September 2011 -- present by Title
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2011-12)The human costs of famines outlast the famines themselves. An increasing body of research points to their adverse long-run consequences for those born or in utero during them. This paper offers an introduction to the ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-07)This paper examines the effect that a country’s business regulatory environment has on the amount of foreign direct investment it attracts. We use the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business ranking to capture the costs that ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-03)We develop a model where workers may enter self-employment or search for jobs as employees and where there is heterogeneity across workers’ managerial ability. Workers with higher skills will manage larger firms while ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2013-03)The paper is an extended review of two recent books on the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-61.
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-03)Globalisation is one of the primary accused culprits of growing income inequality in the developed world. In particular, outbound foreign direct investment (FDI) is often associated with general “skill upgrading" in the ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-12)This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in Ireland from 1987-2005, using the Shapley value decomposition approach. The analysis used the household ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2011-09)Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services has grown significantly in recent years. Evidence of spatial relationships in FDI decisions have been provided for goods manufacturing by utilizing physical distance-based ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-05)This paper presents a simple statistical exercise to provide a benchmark for the degree of electoral stagnation without direct officeholder benefits or challenger scare-off effects. Here electoral stagnation arises solely ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-03)Answers to the Eurobarometer question on Life Satisfaction are used to explore the effects of macroeconomic performance and institutional quality on average levels of self-assessed well-being in the countries of the enlarged ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-01)A popular narrative amongst European policymakers is that Eurozone members facing problems in the bond market are paying the price for past budgetary excess. Fiscal consolidation in these countries is seen as the principal ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-04)Employer-provided health insurance in the United States is suspected of restricting job mobility, resulting in “job lock.” Previous research on job lock finds mixed results using several methodologies. We take a new ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-09)This paper provides among the first rigorous estimates of the labor-market returns to community college certificates and diplomas, as well as estimating the returns to the more commonly-studied associate’s degrees. Using ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2011-09-07)Rugby union only went professional in 1995, much later than other major team sports. League structures and arrangements regarding revenue sharing and salary caps differ between the three main European leagues. We consider ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2011-11)This paper examines the effect that experiencing corruption has on an individual’s mental health using microeconomic data from the Afrobarometer surveys. The results show a statistically significant and economically ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-02)This paper reviews methods for studying dominance and inequality in health economics. It concentrates on “pure inequality” as opposed to inequality which is related to income or some other measure of household resources. ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2011-09-19)Recent theoretical work suggests that the presence of foreign direct investment (FDI) lowers a country’s noncooperative Nash tariff. To test this hypothesis, we first adapt the theoretical model formulated by Blanchard ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-09)Rules of Origin (RoO) are essential components of any preferential trade agreement (PTA) short of a full customs union. The recent proliferation of PTAs has led to increased interest in the effects of RoO with empirical ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2013-03)To combat growing levels of obesity, health related taxes have been suggested with taxes on foods high in fat or sugar. Such taxes have been criticised on the basis of their regressivity and potentially adverse impact ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-12)The composition of tax revenue in Ireland had changed dramatically over the past decade, with indirect taxes accounting for a large share of total tax revenue. This shift towards indirect taxation more than direct taxation ...
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