Browsing by Author "Walsh, Frank"

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    • Income tax cuts and inflation in Ireland 

      Walsh, Frank (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)
      A two sector model of the Irish economy is used to analyse whether either temporarily or permanently deferring reductions in labour tax rates would cut inflation in the short run. If the deferral of tax cuts is seen as ...

    • Labour market rents and Irish industrial policy 

      Walsh, Frank (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)
      This paper examines the issue of whether harmonising taxes across the traded and nontraded sectors is desirable. Preferential treatment for the traded sector might be justified if either the output response of subsidies ...

    • Recent trends in trade union membership in Ireland 

      Walsh, Frank; Strobl, Eric (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)
      Using micro data from the Quarterly National Household Survey we look at trends in Irish union membership from 2001-2006. There was a steep decline in union density. Decomposition analysis suggests that most of the decline ...

    • Union membership in Ireland since 2003 

      Walsh, Frank (Statistical and Social Inquiry Statistical Society of Ireland, 2015)
      Using data from the Quarterly National Household Survey supplemented with some data from the European Social Survey we document a steady decline in union density in Ireland since 2003. While the great recession appeared ...