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(University College Dublin, School of Economics, 2001-10)
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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 Collge Dublin. School Of Economics, 2001-05)This paper uses the introduction of an exchange rate between Ireland and the UK in 1979 as a natural experiment to shed light on the effects of a common currency on the volume of international trade. No evidence is found ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-06)Using brand level retail data, the firm size distribution in Carbonated Soft Drinks is shown to be an outcome of the degree to which firms have placed brands effectively (store coverage) across vertical (flavour, packaging, ...
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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, 2001-06)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-02)We examine the usefulness of the Expansionary Fiscal Contraction hypothesis in explaining the performance of the Irish and Danish economies. We find some evidence in favour of a weak version of the EFC hypotheisis: If the ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-05)This paper models the effect of a simple linear payroll tax in a monopoly union model. Previously derived ambiguous results are given a more intuitive interpretation and conditions under which the effect on wages is ...