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The effects of home energy efficiency upgrades on social housing tenants : evidence from Ireland
Coyne, Bryan; Lyons, Sean; McCoy, Daire - 2016
programme in Ireland, The SEAI Better Energy Communities Scheme, which provides funding for whole communities to upgrade the … improvement in Ireland, with many dwellings receiving a number of measures, such as cavity wall, external wall and attic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547579
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SWITCH : a tax-benefit model for Ireland linked to survey and register data
Keane, Claire; Doorley, Karina; Kakoulidou, Theano; … - 2022
We document the development and operation of the SWITCH model, Ireland's taxbenefit microsimulation model. Using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174930
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Childcare subsidies, childcare costs and benefit erosion : simulations for Ireland
Doorley, Karina; O'Shea, Richard - 2025
This research estimates by how much the NCS reduces childcare costs for families who use formal childcare in Ireland …
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Poverty and distributional effects of a carbon tax in Mexico
Renner, Sebastian - 2017
Mexico recently declared ambitious goals in reducing domestic CO2 emissions and introduced a carbon tax in 2014. Although negative effects on household welfare and related poverty measures are widely discussed as possible consequences, empirical evidence is missing. We try to fill this gap by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636818
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Poverty and distributional effects of a carbon tax in Mexico
Renner, Sebastian - 2017
Mexico recently declared ambitious goals in reducing domestic CO2 emissions and introduced a carbon tax in 2014. Although negative effects on household welfare and related poverty measures are widely discussed as possible consequences, empirical evidence is missing. We try to fill this gap by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632630
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Predicting farms' noncompliance with regulations on nitrate pollution
Lunn, Pete; Lyons, Sean; Murphy, Martin - 2019
among farms in Ireland. Nutrient pollution harms water quality and ecosystems, and farms are subject to fines for … administrative data on farm and farmer characteristics collected by Ireland's Department of Agriculture. We identify significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985202
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Housing Assistance Payment: Potential impacts on financial incentives to work
Roantree, Barra; Callan, Tim; Savage, Michael; Walsh, John - 2019
Since March 2017, a new income-related housing support for those with a long-term housing need called Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) has been available throughout the state. This paper examines the potential impact on financial work incentives of transferring long-run Rent Supplement...
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An Economic Evaluation of Incineration as a Residual Municipal Solid Waste Management Option in Ireland
O'Donovan, Erik; Collins, Micheál L. - Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin - 2011
policy requirements, Ireland remains heavily dependent on indigenous landfill capacity and overseas markets for its Residual … Solid Waste (RMSW) reprocessing and waste to energy capacities. This deficit threatens Ireland’s competitiveness and its … landfilling RMSW in Ireland. In doing so, the study illustrates the sensitivity of an incineration project’s benefits to its scale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366384
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Assessing the Transaction Costs of Firms in the EU ETS : Lessons from Ireland
Jaraite, Jurate - 2009
This paper measures the transaction costs incurred by Irish firms under the European Union's CO2 Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) during its pilot phase (2005 - 2007). Our analysis provides evidence that such costs were mainly administrative in nature. We emphasize the existence of sizeable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157931