Browsing College of Business, Public Policy and Law by Author "O'Donoghue, Cathal"
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Assessing the Impact of Pensions Policy Reform in Ireland: the Case of Increasing the Pension Age
O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)Although demographic ageing will affect Ireland later than many EU countries, by 2050 it will result in significant pressures on the public pension system. Recent reform in Ireland has attempted to address these pressures ... -
Cohabitation in Ireland: evidence from survey data
O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)Cohabitation has grown strongly in Ireland over the last decade. We use large-scale surveys to characterise its extent and nature. We find it has almost tripled in incidence between 1994 and 2002. It is associated with ... -
Cost per unit abated for selected nitrogen mitigation strategies on Irish farms
Chyzheuskaya, Aksana; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Ryan, Mary; O'Neill, Stephen (NUI Galway, 2018)With the initial deadline identified by the Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC) has passed in 2015 and new one set out in 2027, policymakers face increasing pressure to introduce new regulations to achieve ... -
Do farmers in Agri-Environmental schemes make appropriate ecological choices for the habitats on their farms? Modelling the biodiversity undertakings chosen within the Irish Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Murphy, Geraldine; Hynes, Stephen; Murphy, Eithne; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Green, Stuart (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-07)Farmers participating in agri-environmental schemes (AESs) that are aimed at protecting biodiversity should ideally make decisions relating to the ecological management of their farms based on the habitat types found on ... -
Eliciting Individual Preferences for Pension Reform
Fourati, Yosr Abid; O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009-09)Pension systems have recently been under scrutiny because of the expected population ageing threatening its sustainability. This paper¿s contribution to the debate is from a political economic perspective as it uses data ... -
External Shocks in a Small Open Economy: A CGE-Microsimulation Analysis
Ahmed, Vaqar; O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009)This paper studies the impact of changes in the external balance of a developing economy (Pakistan). We explain that the economic growth achieved during the past decade is highly dependent on the improvements in external ... -
Farm Income Mobility and Inequality in Ireland 1994-2001
Hynes, Stephen; O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)This paper uses eight years of data of the National Farm Survey (NFS) to analyse the statics and dynamics of the farm earnings distribution in the period 1994 to 2001, and asks the question: is the Irish farming sector ... -
The Generation Game: All Gain No Pain? Ageing, Intergenerational Equity and Generational Accounts
O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2002)This paper tries to quantify the degree of intergenerational redistribution in Irish public expenditure. The development of a large public debt in the space of two decades, its rapid elimination and potential rise again ... -
Measuring public preferences for the conservation of the traditional farm landscape
Howley, Peter; Hynes, Stephen; O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-07)This paper explores individuals' attitudes towards the traditional farm landscape. Results from a Generalised Tobit Interval model of willingness to pay for traditional farm landscape protection suggest that individuals ... -
Measuring the opportunity cost of time in recreation demand modelling: an application to a random utility model of whitewater kayaking in Ireland
Hanley, Nick; O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)The treatment of the opportunity cost of travel time and the measurement of travel costs in recreational demand modelling has been a contentious issue for many decades. This paper demonstrates how a potential wage rate ... -
Personal versus societal preferences in contingent valuation assessments
Howley, Peter; Hynes, Stephen; O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010-12)Contingent valuation has been used extensively in estimating the value of environmental goods. One criticism of this approach, however, is that respondents in referendum-style contingent valuation surveys may express ... -
Postponing Maternity in Ireland
O'Donoghue, Cathal; O'Shea, Eamon (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)As in many other developed countries, Ireland in recent decades has experienced a postponement of maternity. In this paper we consider the main trends in this phenomenon, considering changes in first and later births ... -
Redistribution over the Lifetime in the Irish Tax-Benefit System: An Application of a Prototype Dynamic Microsimulation Model for Ireland
O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2002)This paper examines the distribution of lifetime income in Ireland. To do this a new prototype dynamic microsimulation model for Ireland is used to generate lifetime income streams. Aggregating over the lifetime we can ... -
Redistributive Effect of Personal Income Taxation in Pakistan
Ahmed, Vaqar; O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009)This paper studies the redistribution effect of personal income tax in Pakistan. We decompose the overall tax system in order to evaluate the contribution of rate, allowances, deductions, exemptions and credits. The structure ... -
Redistributive Forces of the Irish Tax-Benefit System
O'Donoghue, Cathal (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2003)This paper charts the main changes in structure of the Irish system of tax and social benefits over the period 1955-2002. It analyses the evolution of the redistributive forces in the system over the period and considers ... -
The spatial impact of commuting on income: a spatial microsimulation approach
Vega, Amaya; Kilgarriff, Paul; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Morrissey, Karyn (Springer Verlag, 2016-08-24)The Irish economic boom resulted in a substantial increase in car-ownership and commuting. These trends were particularly noticeable in the Greater Dublin Area (GDA), with an unprecedented increase in employment levels and ... -
The spatial relationship between economic activity and river water quality
O'Donoghue, Cathal; Howley, Peter; Hynes, Stephen; Fealy, Réamonn; Chyzheuskaya, Aksana; Green, Stuart; Meredith, David; Morrissey, Karyn (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010-12)This paper, using Ireland as a case study, examines the relationship between economic activities and river water quality. The stipulation from the EU water framework directive (WFD) that all surface waters in the EU must ...