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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, 2009-08)The distributional characteristic is a measure which can be used in many applications in social cost-benefit analysis. In the application here, the distributional characteristics of a number of broad aggregates of goods ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-10)Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies ...
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(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-02)Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it possible to disentangle and quantify the relative effect of tax-benefi…t policy changes, compared to ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-11)This paper analyses the pure time-series properties of doctors’ fees in Ireland to assess whether a structural change in the series is observed at the time of the change in reimbursement in 1989. Such a break would be ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-01)It is clear that education has an important effect on wages paid in the labour market However it not clear whether this is due to the role that education plays in raising the productivity of workers (the human capital ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1984-02)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-08)This paper provides evidence of heterogeneity in the returns to higher education in the UK. Attending the most prestigious universities leads to a wage premium of up to 6% for males. The rise in participation in higher ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-05)Individuals who vote in one election are also more likely to vote in the next. Modelling the causal relationship between past and current voting decisions however is intrinsically difficult, as this positive association ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1986-05)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1992-12-15)In this paper, we investigate techniques for measuring the trade policy equivalent of domestic distortions, using a distance function approach. Our measure, the Trade Restrictiveness Index, is shown to equal the uniform ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1996-03)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-01)Rural hospitals play a crucial role in providing healthcare to rural Americans, a vulnerable and underserved population; however, rural hospitals have faced threats to their financial viability and many have closed as a ...
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(University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2006-11)The cost of health insurance has been the primary concern of small business owners for several decades. State small group health insurance reforms, implemented in the 1990s, aimed to control the variability of health ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-01)In the long run the economic incidence of a tax is unaffected by whether a tax is levied on workers, consumers or firms. In the short run, however, with wages and prices not fully flexible the incidence may be different. ...
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(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2005-03)This paper investigates whether teenagers are educationally advantaged if their parents are educators, using PISA data for Great Britain and Ireland. It examines whether teachers’ children do better at tests of reading ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-02)This paper uses a discrete choice approach to investigate factors influencing starting and quitting smoking, in particular the role of tobacco taxes. Standard probit analysis is applied to both starting and quitting. Tobacco ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-02)This paper uses duration analysis to investigate factors influencing starting and quitting smoking, in particular the role of tobacco taxes. Applying a variety of parametric duration models, including a split population ...
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(University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2006-01)
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(University College Dublin. School Of Economics, 2004-11-05)In sectors with cumulative and complementry technologies, some rms build patent portfolios in order to block their competitors' access to the technology and/or to negociate cross licensing agreements. We propose a dynamic ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1996-03)
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