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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, 1983-09)This paper introduces the concepts of direct and indirect factor trade utility functions and uses them to derive Marshallian and Hicksian factor content functions, which express the quantities of factors embodied in ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1994-06-16)This paper develops a two-country model of trade and factor mobility in which capital is sector-specific but internationally mobile. The model avoids the implausible predictions of specialisation in Heckscher-Ohlin models ...
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(University College Dublin, School of Economics, 2007-11)
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(University College Dublin, School of Economics, 2001-10)
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(University College Dublin, School of Economics, 1999)
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(University College Dublin, School of Economics, 2007-11)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-06)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2007-12)Using data from the period 1970-1991, Romer and Romer (2000) showed that Federal Reserve forecasts of inflation and output were superior to those provided by commercial forecasters. In this paper, we show that this superior ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-10)If participation in the labor market helps to secure women's outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an increase in the perceived risk of marital dissolution may accelerate the increase in female labor supply. ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993-07)
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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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