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of Ireland in a relatively short time-span deserve close scrutiny so as to inform future policy direction. The, sometimes …
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Three distinct strands can be identified in the literature on seasonality. Economists have long been interested in removing high-frequency "noise" from individual economic time series, or "deseasonalizing the data" in common parlance. The second strand, on which an extensive technical literature...
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Traditionally characterised as a labour-surplus economy, Ireland was transformed during the 1990s. An impressive rate …
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Inequality grew substantially not only in many developed countries during the 1980s and 1990s, but also in most developing countries. Across developing and emerging economies, the growth in inequality was more severe in Latin America and Africa compared with many East Asian countries. The...
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The study seeks to re-investigate the role of price, income and health awareness in the evolution of South African cigarette demand over the period 1996 to 2006. At first glance, rising cigarette prices appear to have played an important role in reducing cigarette consumption over the sample...
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This study explores gender differences in entrepreneurship and informal investment in Ireland, a country with one of … the lowest rates of female entrepreneurship in the developed world. Females in Ireland are less likely than males to be …
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significant differences in entrepreneurial activity between Ireland and Hungary in both the type of people starting businesses and … Ireland and Hungary (Reynolds, et al 2005). We expect that countries will benefit from FDI spillovers when there is a strong … between Ireland and Hungary in terms of (i) levels of opportunity-based entrepreneurial activity, (ii) the entrepreneurial …
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entrepreneurial activity varies by human capital and cultural context in Ireland and Wales. …
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This research examines perceived risk at the facet level (Psychological, Social, Performance, Safety, Health and Financial) and assesses the influence of consumer experience and perception of self (perceived ability, interest in product and interest in cooking), product (perceived product...
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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 …
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