FORTHCOMING EVENTS
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 Policy Seminar "Intergenerational Transmission and Healthy Eating Behaviour"
Date: 03/04/2008
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Kostas Mavromaras, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
ESRI Research Seminar: "Healthy Retirement or Unhealthy Inactivity: How Important are Financial Incentives in Explaining Retirement?"
Date: 10/04/2008
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Carl Emmerson, Deputy Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London.
ESRI Research Seminar: "Public Sector Pay Gap in France: New Evidence using Panel Data"
Date: 17/04/2008
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Olivier Bargain, Department of Economics, UCD.
ESRI Research Seminar: "Are Good Industrial Relations Good for the Economy?"
Date: 24/04/2008
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: John Addison, Queen's University Management School.
ESRI Research Seminar: "Chinese Migrant Student Workers and the Celtic Tiger"
Date: 01/05/2008
Time: 4 p.m.
Speakers: Richard O’Leary and Lan Li, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University, Belfast
ESRI Research Seminar "Illegality in Migrant Labour Markets"
Date: 08/05/2008
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Martin Ruhs, Centre for Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford.
ESRI Research Seminar " Do Hiring Subsidies Reduce Unemployment Among the Older Workers? Evidence From Two Natural Experiments"
Date: 22/05/2008
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Dr Bernhard Boockmann, Institute for Applied Economic Research, University of Tuebingen.
ESRI Policy Seminar "Recent Developments and Policy Debates in Secondary Education and Training in Scotland"
Date: 05/06/2008
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: David Raffe, Centre for Educational Sociology, University of Edinburgh.
ESRI Research Seminar "Knowledge-based Clusters, Regional Innovation Systems and New Policy Approaches"
Date: 12/06/2008
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Dr Michaela Trippl, University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna.
ESRI Research Seminar "Social Security and Living Arrangements of Older Persons in Brazil"
Date: 24/07/2008
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Dr Yumiko Kamiya, Trinity College, Dublin.
"Budget Perspectives 2009" Conference
Venue: The ESRI
Date: 07/10/2008
The Budget Perspectives Conference, organised by The ESRI and the Foundation for Fiscal Studies, will take place on Tuesday, 7 October 2008. Papers at the conference present research findings and draw out the implications for public policy, particularly budgetary policy. The attendance typically includes representatives of the social partners, high-level officials from government departments and others involved in debate on policy issues. Further details will be available nearer the time.
5th Euroframe Conference - Ten Years of a Common Currency - Achievements and Policy Challenges in the Euro Area - Call for Papers
Venue: Dublin, Ireland
Date: 06/06/2008
The EUROFRAME group of research institutes (CASE, CPB, DIW, ESRI, ETLA, IfW, NIESR, OFCE, PROMETEIA, WIFO) will hold its fifth annual Conference on Economic Policy Issues in the European Union in Dublin on 6 June, 2008. The aim of the conference is to provide an academic forum for debate on economic policy issues relevant in the European context.
Deadlines: Abstracts: March 17, 2008; Full papers: May 19, 2008. For further information visit the EUROFRAME group web site at http://www.euroframe.org/.
Contact - Abstract and paper submissions: Catherine Mathieu: catherine.mathieu@ofce.sciences-po.fr; Tel: +33(0)144185437.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Quarterly Economic Commentary, Spring 2008
Barrett, A., Kearney, I., O'Brien, M., Dublin: ESRI, March 2008.
The Quarterly Economic Commentary (QEC) is concerned with the analysis of current economic trends and the provision of macroeconomic forecasts for the current and following year.
There is one Special Article in this QEC:
"The Decline of the Computer Hardware Sector: How Ireland Adjusted"
Barry, F. (TCD), Van Egeraat, C. (NUI Maynooth), Special Article in the Quarterly Economic Commentary, Spring 2008. March 2008.
"Controlling the Cost of Controlling the Climate: The Irish Government's Climate Change Strategy"
McCarthy, C., (UCD), Scott, S. (ESRI), ESRI Working Paper No. 229, March 2008.
"Estimating the Economic Cost of Disability in Ireland"
Cullinan, J. (NUI Galway), Gannon, B. (NUI Galway), Lyons, S. ( ESRI), ESRI Working Paper No. 230, March 2008.
"Is FDI into China Crowding Out the FDI into the European Union?"
Resmini, L. (University of Valle d'Aosta), Siedschlag, I.(ESRI), ESRI Working Paper No. 231, March 2008.
"The Impact of Climate Change on the Balanced-Growth-Equivalent: An Application of FUND"
Anthoff, D. (Hamburg University), Tol, R.S.J. (ESRI), ESRI Working Paper No. 228, March 2008.
"Mapping Barriers to Successful School Transitions in Comparative Perspective: Irish and Estonian Experiences"
Darmody, M., TRAMES, Vol. 12, No. 1, March 2008, DOI: 10.3176/tr.2008.1.04, Tallinn: Teaduste Akadeemia Kirjastus (Estonian Academy Publishers).
"Towards Successful Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise Along Europe's Coasts"
Tol, R.S.F. (ESRI), Klein, R.J.T (Stockholm Environment Institute), Nicholls, R.J. (University of Southampton), Journal of Coastal Research, Vol. 24, No. 2, March 2008, DOI: 10.2112/07A-0016.1, Florida: Coastal Education and Research Foundation (CERF).
"Welfare and Competition Effects of Electricity Interconnection between Great Britain and Ireland"
Malaguzzi Valeri, L., ESRI Working Paper No. 232, March 2008.
DYNREG Project
Working papers 21 - 34 from the DYNREG project are now available to download from the ESRI website.
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