Rising House Prices in an Open Labour Market

We explore the consequences of rising house prices for the openness of the Irish labour market. Since many immigrants are in the household formation age group, and tend to be highly skilled, we argue that the boom in house prices, by reducing the attractiveness of Ireland for potential immigrants, could reduce labour supply. Using a structural model of the labour market we endogenise the determination of house prices. Our results suggest that rising house prices, by discouraging potential migrants, could significantly reduce the growth potential of the economy, shifting the balance of labour market growth from employment to wages, with a consequent deterioration in competitiveness.

Direct Instruction of Comprehension: What Does it Really Mean?

There is little to debate regarding the validity of findings which suggest that instruction focusing directly on the task of learning to comprehend will result in greater and more consistent achievement than incidental, spontaneous and/or oblique instruction. Within this framework, however, the term direct instruction can mask a multitude of qualitatively divergent classroom styles. To illustrate, we will briefly describe a study in which two second grade teachers. each reflecting the characteristics associated with direct instruction. provided noticeably different kinds or reading and language arts instruction for their students. With this study as a basis, we will then offer some food for thought regarding reading the instruction of reading comprehension

Rising House Prices in an Open Labour Market. ESRI WP166, June 2005

In this paper we explore the consequences of the recent steep rise in house prices for the openness of the Irish labour market. Specifically we look at the possible effect rising house prices may have on the migration decision. Since many immigrants are in the household formation age group, and tend to be highly skilled, we argue that the boom in house prices, by reducing the attractiveness of Ireland for potential immigrants, could reduce labour supply. Thus housing emerges as an important infrastructural constraint affecting the labour market

Managing an Economy Under EMU: The Case of Ireland. ESRI WP127. May 2000

Over the past 15 months the economy of the euro zone and its individual member economies have had the first experience of operating in a completely new environment. This is very much a learning process as the regime change that EMU involves renders obsolete some of the key economic relationships that would normally help Central Bankers and governments tune their instruments of economic management. It will be some time before we fully understand the factors driving the demand for money within the new Union and the process whereby the euro zone rate of inflation is determined is undergoing substantial change. All this makes it difficult for policy makers in the ECB and in individual member states to do their job