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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, 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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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1983-04)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1984-12-07)
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(University College Dublin, School of Economics, 2003-09)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-11-26)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2008-09-22)The empirical finding that exporting firms are more productive on average than non-exporters has provoked a large theoretical literature based on models such as Melitz (2003), where more productive firms are more likely ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-11)Small firms that offer health insurance to their employees may face variable premiums if the firm hires an employee with high-expected health costs. To avoid expensive premium variability, a small firm may attempt to ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-09)
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