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Browsing Economics Working Papers & Policy Papers, 1982 -- August 2011 by Title
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1989-12)
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(University College Dublin, School of Economics, 2001-11)Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress the role of Catholicism and a conservative social ethos. Previous studies rely on evidence that is not ...
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(University College Dublin; Centre for Economic Resarch, 2004-01)In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of this focus on the influence ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1983-09)
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(University College Dublin; Centre for Economic Research, 2003-06)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1988-03)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-12)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1983-09)This paper presents a two-sector model of a small open economy with wage rigidities and capital accumulation. The short- and medium-run effects of government expenditure policies are analysed and the results are contrasted ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-03)This paper presents a simple model to illustrate the following idea: domestic rivals may be motivated to setup foreign production in the same country because the replication of each other’s foreign direct investment (FDI) ...
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(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-11)Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? In an important article, Oreopoulos (2006) studied the 1947 British compulsory schooling law change and found large returns to schooling of about 15% using the General Household ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-11-29)I argue that increased foreign competition can affect technical choice and skill differentials even when actual imports do not rise significantly. I present a model of General Oligopolistic Equilibrium ("GOLE") in which ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-03)Many previous studies have shown that the localisation of firms can be an important factor in attracting new foreign direct investment into a host country. What has been missing in this literature thus far, however, is ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-02)Ireland was one of the first countries in the world to adopt an FDI-oriented development strategy. It remains to this day the most FDI-intensive economy in Europe. These factors have helped configure the institutional ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-05)This paper extends the theory of multinational corporations, identifying three distinct influences of internal trade liberalisation by a group of countries on the level and pattern of inward foreign direct investment (FDI). ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1988-06)
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(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-12)We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is ...
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(University College Dublin, School of Economics, 1998)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1985-04)
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(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003-08)In this paper a rich and innovative dataset, the International Adult Literacy Survey, is used to examine the impact of functional literacy on earnings. We show that the estimated return to formal education is sensitive to ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-09)The past few months have exposed serious problems in relation to Europe’s ability to cope with financial stress. Placing the new Financial Stability funds on a permanent basis, in the form of a new European Monetary Fund ...
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