Browsing by Subject "Human capital"
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A quality adjusted measure of labour services for Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)This paper presents annual indices of labour input adjusted for the age, education and gender distributions of the Irish workforce for the period 1999-2008. Growth in labour services is divided between the increase in ... -
An approach to national manpower-planning in science and technology
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1975)Data from the 1971 Census relating to the stock of graduates having degrees in science and technology has been associated with the data on expenditure on research and development, expenditure on higher education and ... -
Education and economic performance in the OECD countries: an elusive relationship?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)One of the most common political mantras to-day is that education is the handmaiden of economic growth and prosperity. Politicians like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair constantly trumpet the need to invest in education and ... -
Education and Irish society - with special reference to informational needs
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1971)For the first time since the foundation of the State some data on the educational experience of the population were collected at the 1966 Census of Population, taken on the night of 17th April 1966. Information on age ... -
Employment expectations of rural school-leavers
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1970)This paper presents the major findings of a survey which was carried out during March 1969 among school leavers in the two secondary schools serving the Mourne area of Co Down. Unemployment is one of the distressing facts ... -
From developmental Ireland to migration nation: immigration and shifting rules of belonging in the Republic of Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)This paper considers how post-1950s Irish developmentalism fostered the economic, social and political acceptance of large-scale immigration following EU enlargement in 2004. It argues that economic imperatives alone ... -
General training, government responsibility and the rural unemployed
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1973)"The least mobile variable factor of production, labour, is nowadays also the least important. The factors of production which matter are all now highly mobile." This contentious statement by a well-known journal,highlights ... -
Human Capital and Growth of Information and Communication Technology-intensive Industries: Empirical Evidence from Open Economies
(2013)This paper examines the effect of human capital on the growth of ICT-intensive industries using data from a sample of open economies over the period 1980-1999. Our econometric analysis suggest that value added and employment ... -
The Lights and Shadows of Family Involvement in Small and Medium-Sized Firms
(2023)This study analyzes the influence of human capital (HC) and altruism on small- and medium-size firms’ (SMEs) performance, contingent upon the effect of family involvement in management. HC, understood as the abilities, ... -
Manpower policy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1968)There are a number of special features affecting the development of manpower policy in Ireland. The main ones are the levels of unemployment, underemployment and emigration and the ratio of dependents to workers. The ... -
On the equal importance of the education, poor-law, cheap law for small holders, and land questions, at the present crisis
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)In an article in the Fortnightly Review for January, I called attention to the case of the migratory labourers in Mayo, and their sufferings from non-employment in England last year, as one branch of the present crisis to ... -
The science budget
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1970)It has become very fashionable in these days to speak of a country's 'science policy' and most countries now have somewhere in the government structure a body, or bodies, which advise on the uses of science for the ... -
Self-employment and intergenerational transfers of physical and human capital: an empirical analysis of French data
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)Using The 1991 French Household Survey of Financial Assets, we examine the determinants of self-employment using data on intergenerational transfers of wealth, education, informal human capital and a range of demographic ... -
Some further information as to migratory labourers from Mayo to England, and as to importance of limiting law taxes and law charges in proceedings affecting small holders of land
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1880)The great interest which has been taken in the facts I brought forward at the last meeting as to the migratory labourers, induced me to continue my researches. The points to which I specially directed my attention were: ... -
Some recent developments in secondary education in Great Britain with special reference to technical education
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1958)No apology is needed for addressing this society on an educational topic. In the 1830's Dr. Kay, later Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, wrote a pamphlet, ?The Moral and Physical Conditions of the Working Classes employed in the ... -
Symposium on science and Irish economic development
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1967)None of us, I suppose, would deny the basic assumption that greater efforts in research and technology would strengthen the economy, whether through improved agriculture or improved and diversified industrial output. If ... -
Symposium on the economic returns to education
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)The Second Programme for Economic Expansion, published in 1963, was the first public acknowledgement by the Irish government that expenditure on education was an investment in the nation?s future. It was to be many years ... -
Symposium on the economic returns to education
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)In my contribution to this Symposium I wish to explore two main themes. The first deals with the contribution of education to economic growth at the macro level. In this part I shall discuss the evidence of the importance ...