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Failure in the training market may result from credit constraints and the inability to insure against labour income uncertainty, deterring potential trainees, or labour market imperfections that create external benefits for firms. This paper constructs a model of a training market affected by...
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affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor … supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is children aged 7-18 in households in which both parents usually coreside and … is not affected. We find no evidence that paternal temporary absence influences his children in terms of school …
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We explore the role of human capital investments in the location decisions of firms. We show that whether human capital investments act as a force for or against concentration depends on who is undertaking them and whether they are industry- or firm-specific. We also discuss the empirical...
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domestic plants and foreign multinationals in Ireland. To this end we make use of the index developed by Ellison and Glaeser …
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We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1935 and 2012 using a Phillips curve approach. We find that a simple backward-looking Phillips Curve that incorporates import prices is stable over the sample period and passes a number of diagnostic tests. We also consider the importance of...
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rates in Ireland from a variety of sources for the period 1933-2012. We discuss in detail how the data set is constructed …
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rates in Ireland over the period 1933-2012. We find cointegration and that prices, income and interest rates are weakly …
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This paper exploits an unusual policy reform that had the effect of reducing the direct cost of schooling in Ireland in …
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Much of the controversy about labour migration concerns an aspect which is not easily measured, the 'quality' of the flow. The first part of the paper applies logit analysis to a sample of emigrants from an Irish border county for some insight on the issue. The results suggest that while those...
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The paper describes the insights which trade theory can provide into economic developments in Ireland during the 1930s … from tariffs to the so-called 'economic war' between Ireland and Britain (1932-8). The outcome tentatively supports the … claim that Ireland 'did not lose' this war. …
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