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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 ...
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. ...