rates in Ireland from a variety of sources for the period 1933-2012. We discuss in detail how the data set is constructed …

rates in Ireland over the period 1933-2012. We find cointegration and that prices, income and interest rates are weakly …

of family limitation strategies in Ireland a century ago. Regression analysis of the data shows evidence of `spacing' in … both urban and rural Ireland. Further analysis of the so-called `replacement' problem also produces results consistent with …

The paper reviews the economic performance of the Republic of Ireland since 1945. Its focus is comparative: Ireland … is found wanting. The comparison confirms that the 1950s were a particularly bleak decade for Ireland but, more … surprisingly, Ireland also performed less well than predicted by convergence criteria in both 1960-73 and 1973-88. The paper then …

This paper explores the sources of Ireland’s relative growth performance. Using panel data for a sample of OECD … estimates of the immediate sources of Ireland’s growth differential vis-à-vis the OECD average and the other ‘cohesion …’ countries of the EU. While we find that fiscal consolidation has contributed significantly to Ireland’s improved performance, we …

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 …

paper we examine what has happened to earnings inequality and the returns to education in Ireland between 1987 and 1997. We …