Barry, Frank(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1990-07)
This paper aims, firstly, to present an overview of the causes of Ireland's poor employment performance in recent decades by drawing together the results of existing empirical research and secondly, to pinpoint some ...
This paper attempts to account for the rise in Irish unemployment between 1970 and 1987. To this end a fully articulated medium-term model of the economy is employed, in contrast to the four equation model of the labour ...
Barry, Frank(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1992-06)
This paper argues that the Australian government made three errors when implementing the liberalisation and stabilisation programmes of the 1980's. International capital movements were liberalised at too high an Australian ...
Barry, Frank(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1991-01)
This paper appraises and compares the macroeconomic effects of three supply-side policies - namely employment, investment and production subsidies - within the context of a multisectoral two-period model of a small open ...
The problems and challenges addressed in the Commission's White Paper on "Growth, Competitiveness, Employment" affects the peripheral member states acutely, and in a way that differs considerably from how the richer, more ...