Dublin Observatory

Dublin , Dublin , Ireland

Of Economics University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4

It is clear that education has an important effect on wages paid in the labour market However it not clear whether this is due to the role that education plays in raising the productivity of workers (the human capital explanation) or whether education simply reflects the ability of the worker (through a signalling role). In this paper we describe and implement, using a variety of UK datasets, a...

Leiden Observatory

In this paper we summarize the main properties of the ENACS (the ESO Nearby Abell Cluster Survey), which was one of the ESO Keypro-grammes carried out in the first half of the 1990's, and we discuss some recent work on the properties of the galaxies in the rich clusters in the ENACS sample. We stress the importance of the ENACS sample as a local , volume-limited sample of rich ACO clusters, whi...

Belfield Dublin 4

We introduce the concept of cooperative substitutes and complements, and use it to throw light on the conditions for a research joint venture to choose equal levels of R&D by all member firms. We show that the second-order conditions for a symmetric optimum take a particularly simple form, ruling out both excessive cooperative substitutability and excessive cooperative complementarity, and nest...

Suicide in Dublin.

Since no work had previously been done on suicide in Ireland, we decided to study suicide in Dublin over a 10-year period. We were especially concerned to establish a reliable suicide rate for the area under consideration and by extension to draw some hypothetical conclusions about suicide in the country as a whole. We were also interested in investigating the social, economic, and medical patt...