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This paper estimates the steady state growth rate for Ireland with an extended version of the Solow (1956) growth model …. We show that the education and trade openness have played an important role to improve the long-run growth rate. Policies …
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would suggest a slowdown of the Chinese economy in the future. However, standard growth accounting allocates both technical …
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In this paper, we address the issue of how education affected income inequality in twentieth-century Africa. Three … channels are identified through which education may affect income inequality. First, an increase in the average educational … educational inequality may, given a positive correlation between education level and income, reduce income inequality. Thirdly, an …
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account and bookkeeping. The original amendment to the Bookkeeping Act stipulated the limit of CZK 6 mil., the next amendments …
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The paper describes the construction of a regional agricultural Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Ireland for the year …
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This paper analyses the importance of decisions to interact nationally and internationally on the likelihood of process and product innovation for a sample of Irish firms. The key contribution is to provide an empirical test of the relative importance of geographically proximate versus distant...
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specific outside Europe globalisation and its strong migratory reactivity during the recent crisis, Ireland represents a …
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Using data from the International Social Survey Programme 2008 this paper tests empirically the effects of network social capital on Irish employment outcomes, while controlling for possible endogeneity. We allow the effects of social networks to vary for different groups and across different...
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Purpose Eco-innovation is any form of product, process or organisational innovation that contributes towards sustainable development. Firms can eco-innovate in a variety of ways. In this paper we identify nine different eco-innovation activities - including such items as reducing material use...
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An estimate of the contribution of the biosector to Ireland’s net foreign earnings in 2008 was recently published by … the Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables for Ireland. The 'biosector' comprises the agriculture, forestry and fishing …
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