Browsing by Subject "Labour productivity"

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    • A quality adjusted measure of labour services for Ireland 

      Keeney, Mary J. (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 ...

    • The dependence of national wealth on the social and sanatory state of the labouring classes 

      Hogan, William (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)
      In the year 1841, public attention was called to the duration of infantile life in the North Dublin Union Workhouse; about the same period Mr. Willis was elected a guardian, and he entered on his duties impressed with ...

    • Growth of labour productivity in Irish manufacturing 1953-1967 

      Kennedy, Kieran A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1969)
      The main concern of this paper is with longer term differences among individual manufacturing industries in the growth of labour productivity and how such differences are associated with relative movements in output, labour ...

    • Labour productivity and foreign direct investment in Irish manufacturing industry: a decomposition analysis 

      Ruane, Frances; Ugur, Ali (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)
      Overall labour productivity in the Irish manufacturing sector increased by 158 per cent between 1991 and 1999. This paper examines the components of this labour productivity growth in the period 1991-1999, using a decomposition ...

    • One-day absence in industry 

      Froggatt, P. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1965)
      Much has been written about absence from work taken in spells of three days or more, little about spells of one or two days?possibly because they do not ordinarily count for National Insurance benefit Nevertheless, this ...

    • A survey of manpower: Londonderry, Coleraine, Limavady and Strabane - a case study 

      Garmany, J. W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1964)
      Measures aimed at levelling out regional disparities fall broadly into two groups, those operating on the labour market and geared towards greater flexibility, mobility and rehabilitation, and those designed to induce a ...