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Fertility in South Dublin a Century Ago: A First Look
Guinnane, Timothy W.; Moehling, Carolyn M.; Grada, Cormac O - 2001
Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … samples from the 1911 census of Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444183
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"Effects of the growth of foreign ownership of, and penetration into, UK, Belgian, and Irish economic sectors, 1978-1996"
Breverton, T.D. - 1997
EU trade policy operates in a framework which has tended to ignore governmental assistance to non-domestic multinational operations setting up/expanding in EU countries. At the same time, support for indigenous industries is illegal except in extreme, agreed circumstances. This differential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463742
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"The Real Costs of Japanese Foreign Direct Investment to the European Union - With Specific Reference to the UK, Belgium and Eire"
Breverton, T.D. - 1995
In late May 1995, an OECD Conference is scheduled specifically to discuss Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), which consists of building greenfield sites, acquisitions, or joint ventures). FDI rose four-fold between 1985 and 1993, twice as fast as world trade, but there are very few rules in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463788
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"Effects of the growth of foreign ownership of, and penetration into, UK, Belgian, and Irish economic sectors, 1978-1996"
Breverton, T.D. - 1997
EU trade policy operates in a framework which has tended to ignore governmental assistance to non-domestic multinational operations setting up/expanding in EU countries. At the same time, support for indigenous industries is illegal except in extreme, agreed circumstances. This differential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463796
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"The Real Costs of Japanese Foreign Direct Investment to the European Union - With Specific Reference to the UK, Belgium and Eire"
Breverton, T.D. - 1995
In late May 1995, an OECD Conference is scheduled specifically to discuss Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), which consists of building greenfield sites, acquisitions, or joint ventures). FDI rose four-fold between 1985 and 1993, twice as fast as world trade, but there are very few rules in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463945
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Levels of Farm Sector Productivity: An International Comparison.
Ball, V. Eldon; Bureau, Jean-Christophe; Butault, … - 2001
United States at1.689. Ireland had the lowest relative productivity at 0.759.By 1993, the range of levels of productivity had … narrowed significantly,from 0.709 for Ireland to 1.392 forthe Netherlands. Further evidence of convergence can be seenin the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429491
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Mit Sicherheit besser? : Aktivierung und Flexicurity in Dänemark
Bogedan, Claudia - 2005
Labour market policies in Denmark, especially measures for the unemployed, recently received much attention, because of …. Denmark offers a flexible labour market with minimal regulations combined with high social security. This ‘flexicurity’ has …. However, Denmark has been able to embed activation into the tradition of a generous and universal welfare state. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466406
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Regional marriage patterns and trends in Northern Sudan
Abdelrahman, Abdelrahman Ibrahim - 1989
Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life cycle of individuals; for society at large it represents the creation of a new unit of production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. In most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438848
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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa
van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986
The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size … Cameroon; and child mortality in North Sudan and Senegal. Overall mortality levels are high in Western and Central Africa and … low in Eastern and Southern Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438868
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Modernization and the fertility transition, Egypt, 1975
Issa, Mahmoud S. Abdou - 1980
This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of modernization of the region: defined as economic development and social and cultural change. The intermediate variables (Davis and Blake, 1965) underlying these regional levels and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439057