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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, 1989-04)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, ...
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(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 ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1984-07)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1984-06)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1992)
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(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 ...
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(University College Dublin, School of Economics, 2002-07)The main purpose of this paper is to address the question of whether the world can feed itself during the 21st Century. We start with a brief review of the chief demographic effects of famines - with special reference to ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1984-10)
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(University College Dublin, School of Economics, 1999-08)Most theories of involuntary unemployment predict that the equilibrium wage in the labor market will be greater than the reservation wage of the unemployed. These theories concentrate on explaining why the labor market ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2008-04)This paper examines the determinants of self-rated health in the Republic of Ireland using data from the 2001 Quarterly National Household Survey Health Module and the 2005 ESRI Time Usage Survey. Results indicate that ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1987-04)This note presents a compact derivation of the determinants of changes in the equilibrium real exchange rate (the inverse of the price index of nontraded goods relative to traded goods), in a small open economy with any ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1984-08)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-08)This paper models corruption as optimal parasitism in organizations where teams of agents are weakly restrained by principals. Each agent takes on part of the role of principal, choosing how much to invest in policing ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993-06)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1987-10)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-08)In this paper we extend the standard human capital earnings function to include dispersion in the rate of return to schooling by treating the return as a random coefficient. One motivation is that if the increase in supply ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-06)Since firm heterogeneity has been introduced into international trade models, the importance of firm entry and exit (the extensive margin) has been highlighted. Thomas Chaney (2008) illustrates how accounting for ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-04)
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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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