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Ireland has been particularly badly impacted by the current international crisis, with an unprecedented deterioration …
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The Permanent Income Hypothesis (PIH) states that consumption should depend on long-term income expectations and not on temporary swings in income. This paper uses Irish household data from three Household Budget Surveys between 1994 and 2005 to test the PIH. Households that fail to consume...
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Towards the latter end of the last decade there was growing recognition that Ireland’s transport and mobility patterns … spatially transformed during the “Celtic Tiger” era with (sub)urban sprawl, fuelled by Ireland’s chronic car dependency, a … eliminate, the daily commute to and from work and was regarded by policymakers as a crucial element in reducing Ireland …
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volatility in Ireland. EGARCH models are used to uncover volatility changes in the periods before and after the introduction of … the new trading product in Ireland. We find that CFDs appear to have lowered asset-specific volatility across the majority …
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Ireland has been particularly hit by the economic downturn of 2008. For many families in Ireland the economic downturn …
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birth is a large and highly significant predictor of breastfeeding at hospital discharge in Ireland over the period 2004 …
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claimants for almost two years, to evaluate the impact of a range of government sponsored training courses in Ireland. Overall …
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This paper applies the methodology of Ravallion and Chen in calculating growth incidence curves for Ireland over the …
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In a paper published in this journal in 2013 concentration indices for obesity were presented for male and female obesity. Decompositions of the indices were also presented. There was an error in the calculations which led to an overstatement of the concentration indices for obesity for both men...
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In Ireland, the absence of statutory earnings-related pensions in the private sector leads to large variations in …
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