for sale or to let in Ireland are obliged to have an energy efficiency rating.  This paper analyses the effect of energy … efficiency ratings on the sale and rental prices of properties in the Republic of Ireland.  Using the Heckman selection technique …

, particularly for smaller European economies such as Ireland.  Using a dataset of over 35,000 price-year observations from the …-bust cycles, concurrent with war and other political events affecting Ireland, including its independence movement.  Railway …

This paper explores the effects of unemployment on the school enrolment decisions. A few studies that have taken up … enrolment decision that is capable of explaining these results in a unified manner. In this model, unemployment affects the …

unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour … market, and unemployment as a queuing phenomenon. We test each of these explanations and find that labour market segmentation …

on unemployment are examined. The model controls for macroeconomic shocks, and include the possibility of interactions …

, and in the growth of their labour forces. Whereas China - a labour-surplus economy par excellence despite unemployment … historically has been short of labour - is moving towards increased labour surplus in the form of open unemployment. The paper …

of wages to local unemployment. Examining this spatial relationship, we find that the elasticity of wages to local … unemployment rates in South Africa is -0.1, similar to that found in other countries, including the US and the UK. This is striking … because South Africa has a national unemployment rate of over 30%. We find that the wage curve elasticity persists over a much …

This paper examines an open economy model in which equilibrium unemployment depends on capacity in the traded …-goods sector. The model is estimated using U.K. quarterly data and compared with alternative concepts of equilibrium unemployment … utilisation and the degree of volatility of the real exchange rate interact to generate changes in equilibrium unemployment. This …