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The impact of the exchange rate regime on exports: evidence from the European Monetary System.
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1999)
We employ the econometric techniques of multivariate cointegration and errorcorrection
models to investigate the impact of the creation of the European Monetary
System (EMS) on the volume of intra-European Union (EU) ...
Trade Unions and Bargaining For Skills
(Employee Relations Journal, 1998-03)
This article seeks to locate the role of trade unions in bargaining for vocational, education and training (VET) within the context of workplace industrial relations. Drawing on the experiences and findings of a TUC project ...
Post-privatised shop steward organisation and union renewal
(Industrial Relations Journal, 1998)
Using an ethnographic case study approach this article provides empirical evidence concerning the response of local union stewards to managerial-led change during and after the process of privatisation. Evidence supports ...
Looking out of the black-hole: non-union relations in an SME
(Employee Relations Journal, 1999)
Using a single case study approach this paper provides empirical evidence about managerial practices in a small, non-unionised firm which represents many of the features characteristic of the black-hole of no unions and ...
Winning Success in Aquaculture Marketing
(Dublin Institute of Technology, 1993)
A decade ago aquaculture in Ireland was essentially a cottage industry, fragmented, undercapitalised with uneven product quality and at the mercy of larger, often foreign owned distributors. Today, a rapidly growing ...
Subsidies in Irish fisheries: saving rural Ireland? (
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-12)
Subsidies in the world's fishing industry have long been considered to have
harmful effects on fish stocks. The fishing industry has suffered from overcapacity
for many years, and subsidies encourage investment, leading ...
Analyzing gender-based differential advantage: a gendered model of emerging and constructed opportunities.
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-10)
This paper develops and uses the Model of Emerging and Constructed Opportunities
(MECO) to analyze the emergence of systematic institutional
and gender-based differential advantage. Using an evolutionary process ...
The impacts of transition on the household in the provinces of Kazakhstan: the case of Atyubinsk Oblast.
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-09)
This paper discusses the main economic and social changes that have affected
the well-being of households in Akytubinsk Oblast in Kazakhstan and
describes the general responses of the households to these changes. ...
A comparison of the effects of decommissioning, catch quotas and mesh regulation in restoring a depleted fishery.
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-07)
Possible means of rehabilitating the manY depleted fisheries in European
waters now form a topic of great interest and relevance. This paper uses
bioeconomic analysis to predict returns for the Irish Sea Nephrops ...
Real interest-rate parity under regime shifts: evidence for industrial countries.
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-10)
We use recently developed cointegration tests that determine endogenously
the regime shift to test for bilateral real interest rate convergence (real interest
rate parity) in the G7 against the US in the 1974-1995 period. ...