The paper uses a finite mixture modelling approach to investigate the likely determinants of relative economic performance of Irish towns. The particular success factors that we focus on are measures of connectivity, position and competitive capacity of places. Our main argument is that these...

In this paper we first review the economic and econometric literature on the social and economic determinants of suicide rates. We find that there is a large amount of variation in the results across different studies. We go on to specify models of male and female suicide rates using a panel of...

Cullinan J., Garvey E. and Keane M. Investigating the determinants of relative economic performance for Irish towns: a finite-mixture modelling approach, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper uses a finite-mixture modelling approach to investigate the likely determinants of relative economic performance...

The objective of this paper is to examine the factors affecting both participation in an off-farm job and the number of hours worked off-farm by couples in farm households in an Irish region. Data from 278 farm households in Co. Mayo was analysed to this end. A multivariate examination of key...