This paper explores the economic implications of new policy initiatives that seek to introduce terminal competition at Dublin Airport, in the context of the recent regulatory history of the three busiest Irish airports. ...
Given that brands (products) are location specific in terms of coverage of retail stores, we allow consumers to have preferences over location and products to carry distribution costs, alongside preferences and costs over ...
Denny, Kevin; Doyle, Orla(UCD Geary InstituteUniversity College Dublin; School of Economics, 2005-04-06)
This paper uses semi-parametric econometric techniques to investigate the relationship between basic skills and earning in three post-communist countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovenia using the IALS dataset. ...
The individual insurance market is perceived by many to provide primarily transition coverage, but there is limited research about how long people stay in this market and what affects their disenrollment decisions. We ...
We examined the impact of employer-sponsored part-time college education on job mobility, using the case of the Tuition Assistance (TA) program of the U.S. Navy. We used two modeling approaches—a bivariate probit model of ...
The Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs offer disability compensation to servicemembers who are injured while serving on active military duty. This research analyzes features of the military
disability compensation ...
I use panel data to examine whether long-term changes in industry wages are positively related to long-term changes in industry employment. Previous research using repeated cross-sectional data found no systematic relationship ...
Devereux, Paul J.(Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 2005-07)
The author uses longitudinal data to study the effects of industry growth and decline on wage changes between 1976 and 2001. He finds that over this period, workers who were initially in industries that subsequently expanded ...
Many theoretical models of transition are driven by the assumption that economic decision making is subject to political constraints. In this paper we empirically test whether the winners and losers of economic reform ...
Individuals experiencing poor health are less likely to vote at election time, despite being the ones most affected by health policies implemented by the successful party. This paper investigates the relationship between ...