Our goal here is to offer a better understanding of why workhouse mortality was as high as it was, how it varied across Ireland, and how it affected different groups in the population such as women or children.
This paper uses pooled cross-section data on recent school leaves in Ireland to model the determinants of labour market status and wages for young adults. Firstly we use a multinomial logit model to analyze whether individuals ...
Walsh, Frank(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-11)
A monopsony model of the labour market is developed where wages and the effort level
are chosen by the firm. Higher wages raise labour supply while higher effort reduces it. Wages will be below the socially optimal level ...
Walsh, Frank(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-11)
Wallers (1989) model which incorporates an effort augmented production function into a
traditional Keynesian analysis of supply and demand shocks is generalised by not
restricting the elasticity of substitution between ...
Neary, J. Peter(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-12-11)
Almost twenty-five years after the appearance of Dixit and Stiglitz’s paper on
monopolistic competition and optimum product diversity, I try to take stock of the progres which has been made in applying their approach to ...
Dascher, Kristof(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-05)
Typically, a small and open economy trades goods at given world prices. Here, we present a model of a very open small economy, where capital and labor are internationally mobile, too. When investing into infrastructure, ...
Neary, J. Peter(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-12-11)
I take the publication of The Spatial Economy by Fujita, Krugman and Venables as
an opportunity to expound and assess the "new economic geography". I use a simple diagram to show how the basic model works; give a ...