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Please note that the offices of the ESRI will be closed from 12 noon on Wednesday 24th December until 9 a.m. on Monday 5th January 2009.

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS

ESRI Seminars
ESRI Seminars usually take place on Thursdays at 4 p.m. in the ESRI at Sir John Rogerson's Quay, unless stated otherwise. No booking is required. Please note that Seminar dates may change. Please check the web site regularly, at www.esri.ie.

ESRI Research Seminar "Tax Competition in an Expanding EU"

Date: 22/01/2009
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Ron Davies, UCD.

ESRI Research Seminar "Housing Benefits and the Irish Tax Benefit System"

Date: 26/2/2009
Time: 4 pm
Speaker: Philip Hayes, NUI Galway, Teagasc and CPA. 

6th Euroframe Conference on Economic Policy Issues in the EU "Causes and Consequences of the Current Financial Crisis: what lessons for European Union countries?

Venue: London; Date: 12/06/2009. Click for further details.

Call for Papers
Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail before 13 March to catherine.mathieu@ofce.sciencespo.fr. Full papers should be received by e-mail by 25 May. Download details (pdf)

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PUBLICATIONS - DECEMBER 2008

Activity in Acute Public Hospitals in Ireland, 2006 Annual Report
Health Research and Information Division, ESRI Survey and Statistical Report Series 008, Dublin: ESRI, December 2008.

Perinatal Statistics Report 2006
Health Research and Information Division, ESRI Survey and Statistical Report Series, Dublin: ESRI & Department of Health and Children, December 2008.

Quarterly Economic Commentary, Winter 2008
Barrett, A., Kearney, I., Goggin, J., ESRI Forecasting Series, December 2008.

"A Dynamic Analysis of Household Car Ownership in Ireland"
Nolan, A., ESRI Working Paper No. 269, Dublin: ESRI, December 2008.

"An Analysis of the Potential of the European Commission Business and Consumer Surveys for Macroeconomic Forecasting"
Goggin, J., Special Article in the ESRI's Quarterly Economic Commentary, Winter 2008, Dublin: ESRI, December 2008.

"An Empirical Analysis of Development Cycles in the Dublin Office Market 1976-2007"
McCartney, J., Special Article in the ESRI's Quarterly Economic Commentary, Winter 2008, Dublin: ESRI, December 2008.

"Benchmarking, Social Partnership and Higher Remuneration: Wage Settling Institutions and the Public-Private Sector Wage Gap in Ireland"
Kelly, E., McGuinness, S., O’Connell, P. J., ESRI Working Paper No. 270, Dublin: ESRI, December 2008.

"How Reliable is the Quarterly National Household Survey for Migration Research?"
Barrett, A., Kelly, E., Economic and Social Review, Vol. 39, No. 3, December 2008.

"Immigrants and Welfare Programmes: Exploring the Interactions between Immigrant Characteristics, Immigrant Welfare Dependence and Welfare Policy"
Barrett, A., McCarthy, Y. (Central Bank), Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2008.

"New Estimates of the Cost of Disability in Ireland Using the Standard of Living Approach"
Cullinan, J. (NUI, Galway), Gannon, B. (NUI, Galway), Lyons, S. (ESRI), Galway: Department of Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway, December 2008.

"Resonances from "Economic Development" for Current Economic Policymaking"
Ruane, F., ESRI Working Paper No. 267, Dublin: ESRI, December 2008.

"The Determinants of Mode of Transport to Work in the Greater Dublin Area"
Commins, N., Nolan, A., ESRI Working Paper No. 268, Dublin: ESRI, December 2008.

"The Impact of Wage Bargaining Regime on Firm-Level Competitiveness and Wage Inequality: The Case of Ireland"
McGuinness, S., Kelly, E., O'Connell, P. J., ESRI Working Paper No. 266, Dublin: ESRI, December 2008.

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FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

(Please note that the publication dates of forthcoming publications may change. Please check the ESRI web site at www.esri.ie).

Annual Policy Report on Migration and Asylum 2007: Ireland
Joyce, C., ESRI Survey & Statistical Report Series, Report for the European Commission Directorate-General Justice, Freedom and Security, January 2009.

The Irish Sports Monitor First Annual Report 2007
Lunn, P., Layte, R., Watson, D., Irish Sports Council/ESRI, January 2009.

"Assessing Vulnerability of Selected Sectors Under Environmental Tax Reform: The Issue of Pricing Power"
Fitz Gerald, J., Keeney, M., Scott, S., Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, April 2009, Vol. 52, No. 3..

"'The Balancing Act’ - Irish Part-time Undergraduate Students in Higher Education"
Darmody, M., Fleming, B. (UCD), Irish Educational Studies, Vol. 28, March 2009.

"The Impact of Flexible Working Arrangements on Work-life Conflict and Work Pressure in Ireland"
Russell, H., O’Connell, P.J. and McGinnity, F. (2009), Special Issue of Gender, Work and Organization, ‘Work/Life Balance: A Matter Of Choice?’, Vol. 16, No. 1, January 2009.

"The Impact of Multinational Entry on Domestic Market Structure and Investment"
Haller, S., International Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 18, 2009, pp. 52-62, DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2008.02.004, February 2009.

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NEW PROJECTS

Security Implications of Climate Change

Tol,Richard S J

Commentators frequently cite the prospect of climate-change-induced violent conflict as one of the main reasons for greenhouse gas emission reduction. War would break out over dwindling water and food resources, and hordes of refugees fleeing sea level rise would destabilize whole societies.

Cynics may argue that this is just the latest fad among alarmists, now that serious research has pooh-poohed earlier "we’re all gonna die" stories. Still, there has not been much research on the impact of climate change on violent conflict, and thus there is the possibility that these concerns are warranted.

This project for the US Environmental Protection Agency, in cooperation with Stratus Consulting, aims to fill this gap, and come up with the first ever estimates of the effect of climate change on the probability of violent conflict and the associated economic impact.

Multiple Inequalities: An Analysis of Census 2006 Data

Dorothy Watson, Helen Russell, Emma Quinn and Pete Lunn.

This project, commissioned by the Equality Authority, will make use of 2006 Census data to examine inequalities in education, employment and housing among those whose circumstances would be covered under several of the nine grounds governed by equality legislation. The main question is whether there is evidence of cumulative disadvantage associated with the presence of more than one of the nine criteria. The project will analyse the Census 2006 data, including the 5% sample, and report to the Equality Authority by summer 2009.

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