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Browsing Economics Working Papers & Policy Papers, 1982 -- August 2011 by Title
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(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-05)A variety of public campaigns, including the “Just Say No” campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to “Just Say No to Drugs”, are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1997-06)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1998-01)This paper reviews previous research on Irish unemployment. It examines the reasons for the persistence of high unemployment and the relevance of the concept of a time-varying rate of "equilibrium" unemployment in a small ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1986-09)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1999-10)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1989)In this paper, recent trends in U.S. commercial aviation are examined, so that an assessment may be made of the impact of the passage of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 on the industry and also on the national airways ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-01)We apply a new estimator to the measurement of the economic returns to education. We control for endogenous education, unobserved ability and measurement error using only the natural heteroscedasticty of wages and education ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2008-04)Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job satisfaction, etc. across countries or socio-economic groups is often hampered by the fact that different ...
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(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-07)I show a simple back-of-the-envelope method for calculating marginal effects in binary choice and count data models. The approach suggested here focuses attention on marginal effects at different points in the distribution ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-03)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-09)
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(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003-04)The reservation wage is an integral part of most theories of involuntary unemployment. We use panel data to examine the empirical determinants of the reservation wage - in particular the influence of previous wages - and ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1994-05)The aim of this paper is to review, in a broad historical context, what we know about the behaviour of Irish wage rates relative to those in Britain. Attention will be focused on the long-run effects of emigration and the ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1988)This paper examines the two-sector general equilibrium model under a variety of labor-market distortions, including minimum wages and factor price differentials (both absolute and proportional). We introduce a new concept ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-04)This paper examines the change in welfare in Ireland over the 1987- 1994 period by investigating whether Lorenz and Generalised Lorenz dominance can be observed for household expenditure data. It also calculates bootstrapped ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1994-03)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1988-01)This paper derives first- and second-best levels of optimal tariffs and taxes on internationally mobile capital in a general model of an open economy. When world prices are fixed (so that non-intervention is optimal), ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2004-09)We show that the effects of tariff changes on welfare and import volume can be fully characterised by their effects on the generalised mean and variance of the tariff distribution. Using these tools, we derive new results ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1992)Due primarily to transport improvements, commodity prices in Britain and America tended to equalize 1870-1913. This commodity price equalization was not simply manifested by the great New World grain invasion of Europe. ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-05-20)University tuition fees for undergraduates were abolished in Ireland in 1996. This paper examines the effect of this reform on the socioeconomic gradient (SES) to determine whether the reform was successful in achieving ...
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