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Ready to go? EU Enlargement and migration potential: lessons for the Czech Republic in the context of Irish migration experience
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)
EU enlargement is hardly can be seen as the major push factor for migration. There are mainly economic factors that influence the migration decisions. Besides it seems that there is a migration potential, unique for every ...
Controlling Agricultural Emissions of Nitrates: Regulation versus Taxes
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2007)
Two policy instruments, input taxes and regulations, can be used to deal with nitrate pollution. However, in practice command and control (CAC) measures such as input regulations and management practices, as outlined in ...
Tales of Expansionary Fiscal Contractions in Two European Countries: Hindsight and Foresight
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2007)
It is ironic that the potential expansionary effects of fiscal contractions have become known as non-Keynesian effects. This paper highlights the fact that Keynes and his contemporaries were aware of such potential perverse ...
Waiving and Exercising Rights in the Theory of Social Situations
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)
The present paper analyses different formulations of individual rights within a traditional social choice-theoretic framework and a game form framework. It proposes a theory of social situations as a basis for some new ...
Selecting Economic Immigrants: A Statistical Approach
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009-09)
There is growing international interest in a Canadian-style points system for selecting economic immigrants. Although existing points systems are influenced by the human capital literature, the findings have traditionally ...
Do Ordering Effects Matter in Willingness-to-pay Studies of Health Care?
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2000)
Willingness-to-pay studies are increasingly being used in the evaluation of health care programmes. There are, however, methodological issues that need to be resolved before the potential of willingness-to-pay can be fully ...
On the Axiomatic Approach to Freedom as Opportunity: A General Characterization Result
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2000)
The aim of this paper is to provide a different, somewhat more general, approach to the axiomatic ranking of opportunity sets in terms of freedom of choice. The opportunity ranking is defined axiomatically relative to some ...
A methodological framework for the study of residential location and travel-to-work mode choice under central and suburban employment destination patterns
(2009)
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the methodological questions that arise from the study of the simultaneous choice of residential location and travel-to-work mode under central and non-central or suburban employment ...
Employment sub-centres and travel-to-work mode choice in the Dublin region
(2008)
In this paper, travel-to-work patterns are analysed for a number of key employment sub-centres in the Dublin region. Geographical information system (GIS) visualisations and regression analysis are used to identify a small ...
Common Property Resource Management and REPS Uptake in Ireland: the case of Irish Commonage
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2006)
This paper looks at the factors determining REPS participation among commonage farmers in the West of Ireland and on the impact REPS has had on participating farmers¿ income and on their environmental practices and attitudes. ...