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Comparing the Travel Cost Method and the Contingent Valuation Method ? An application of Convergent Validity Theory to the Recreational Value of Irish Forests
Mayor, Karen; Scott, Susan; Tol, Richard S.J. - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2007
, forests in Ireland are regarded as public goods and consequently there exists a stance among users that access to them should …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005149245
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Immigrants and Welfare Programmes: Exploring the Interactions between Immigrant Characteristics, Immigrant Welfare Dependence and Welfare Policy
Barrett, Alan; McCarthy, Yvonne - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2008
issues by looking at immigrant welfare use in Ireland and the UK. Immigrants in the UK appear to use welfare more intensively … than natives but the opposite appears to be the case in Ireland. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087653
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Welfare and Competition Effects of Electricity Interconnection between Great Britain and Ireland
Valeri, Laura Malaguzzi - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2008
market. I simulate the wholesale electricity markets of Great Britain and the island of Ireland for 2005. I find that in … positive effects on competition in Ireland, the less competitive of the two markets. Finally, it is unlikely that private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087662
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Energy-Using Appliances and Energy-Saving Features: Determinants of Ownership in Ireland
O'Doherty, Joe; Lyons, Seán; Tol, Richard S. J. - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2007
Energy usage and energy efficiency are of increasing concern in Ireland. Regression analyses on a large household micro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005023606
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The Immigrant Earnings Disadvantage Across the Earnings and Skills Distributions: The Case of Immigrants from the EU's New Member States in Ireland
Barrett, Alan; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Brien, Martin - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2008
destinations. In this paper, we analyse the earnings of immigrants in Ireland from the NMS using a new large-scale dataset on … employees in Ireland. In so doing, we add to the emerging strand in the literature on immigrant earnings that looks beyond … determinant of the immigrant-native earnings gap for NMS immigrants in Ireland. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005023621
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Determinants of Water Connection Type and Ownership of Water-Using Appliances in Ireland
O'Doherty, Joe; Lyons, Seán; Tol, Richard S.J. - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2007
Ireland, a country where rapid economic and demographic change are putting pressure on water and sewerage infrastructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005023625
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The Climate Preferences of Irish Tourists by Purpose of Travel
Lyons, Seán; Mayor, Karen; Tol, Richard S. J. - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2008
We estimate a pooled travel model for the destination choice of tourists from the Republic of Ireland in 2006. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005149190
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Accounting for Taste: An Examination of Socioeconomic Gradients in Attendance at Arts Events
Lunn, Pete; Kelly, Elish - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2009
We critically examine and empirically test the hypothesis that the strong socioeconomic gradients characterising attendance at arts events result from similar gradients in preferences for the arts, in line with existing theories of demand for the arts derived from orthodox consumer theory. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005149208
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Socioeconomic Distribution of Emissions and Resource Use in Ireland
Lyons, Seán; Pentecost, Anne; Tol, Richard S. J. - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2012
This paper uses the ESRI's ISus model to explore the distributional differences in emissions by household type. Most greenhouse gas and metal emissions are emitted via indirect means, although direct sources of emissions play a role for CO2, SO2 and CO. The results suggest that the richest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010539830
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The Impact of Changes in Educational Attainment on Life Expectancy in Ireland
FitzGerald, John; Byrne, David; Znuderl, Nusa - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370160