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We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1926 and 2012. The difference between unemployment and the NAIRU is a significant determinant of inflation in a simple backward-looking Phillips Curve that incorporates import prices. While there is a break in 1979-80, when the link to...
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Higher rates of economic growth in recent years have led Ireland from being a country characterized by emigration to … compare the wages of returned migrants with the wages of those who stayed in Ireland. In a recent paper, it has been argued … find support for this argument for men. On average, returning males earn 10 percent more than men who stayed in Ireland …
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paper we examine what has happened to earnings inequality and the returns to education in Ireland between 1987 and 1997. We …
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Despite anchoring the Irish monetary system to a common zone-wide exchange rate and interest rate, EMU has triggered sizable exchange rate and especially interest rate shocks to the Irish economy (albeit not appreciably greater than those experienced under previous exchange rate regimes)....
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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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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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exercise in fiscal rectitude of the 1980s and focusing on its two most extreme cases, Denmark and Ireland. We find that at …
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Recent analyses of Ireland's marital fertility transition based on the Princeton Ig and the Stanford CPA measures are … comparing Ireland with Scotland and applying the measure to three specially-constructed local data sets. …
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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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