This Paper describes some important economic and demographic changes in Irish society over recent decades. Some forecasts are also included. In the case of the economic variables covered (which relate principally to the labour market) these are mainly medium-term (up to 2005), but extend over a...

Funding in Irish hospitals is partially based on case mix, whereby resources are redistributed annually to hospitals with greater efficiency. Accurate measurement of efficiency is essential, so in this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis to measure technical...

This paper investigates the simulation of common policy reforms across different countries. Changes to the equivalence scales of social assistance systems in favour of pensions and children in Germany, Ireland and the UK were modelled. Unlike a number of previous studies of this kind such as...