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We investigate the relationship between farm level competitiveness and environmental performance using Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). We use an Irish panel of farm level financial data for the years 2000-2017 to analyse the link between EU Common Agricultural Policy environmental payments,...
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Using data from a large-scale survey of employees in Ireland, we estimate the extent to which people who have emigrated … from Ireland and returned earn more relative to comparable people who have never lived abroad. In so doing, we are testing …
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Recent rapid economic growth in Ireland has been accompanied by a strong surge in the number of women in employment … Ireland in 2003. Our results show that while part-time work and flexi-time tend to reduce work pressure and work-life conflict …
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This paper uses a linked employer-employee dataset, the National Employment Survey, to examine the determinants of organisational change and employee resistance to change and, specifically, to examine the influence of employee inflexibility on the implementation of firm-level policies aimed at...
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We estimate Irish historical landfill quantities from 1960 -2008 and Irish methane emissions from 1968-2006. A model is constructed in which waste generation is a function of income, price of waste disposal and, household economies of scale. A transformation ratio of waste to methane is also...
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We examine the impact of recent tax reforms in Ireland on private car transport and its greenhouse gas emissions. A … (very) high. -- Private car transport ; Republic of Ireland ; carbon dioxide emissions ; fiscal policy …
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Scheme in Ireland. We find that the (implicit) subsidy per tonne of carbon dioxide avoided varies hugely across households … subsidy reduces welfare (including environmental benefits) by 42%. -- climate policy ; Ireland ; ex-post evaluation …
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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...
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in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland. We use a bi‐regional input‐output analysis to look at how greenhouse … the island of Ireland, we find that emissions driven by demand in Northern Ireland are larger than those it generates, and … vice‐versa for the Republic of Ireland. We then use the input‐output tables to simulate the effect of imposing a €15/tonne …
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