I'm returning to ArchEc after five months in ernad land. I'm completely moving away from preserving just files, after getting an idea on Monday August 2 about creating a format that would preserve both files *AND* ReDIF records. Here is the first record I wrote today in a WARC WARC/1.0 WARC-Type: resource WARC-Target-URI: RePEc:tcd:tcduee:991 WARC-Date: 2004-06-03T16:38:49Z WARC-Record-ID: <urn:uuid:ca86a44f-1c74-4c21-a513-bafde962dd88> Content-Type: application/octet-stream WARC-Block-Digest: sha1:QG75JDQT6XITM67IS3FKNRTBMDMPSSCG Content-Length: 1855 Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Drudy, P.J. and Punch, M Author-Postal: Department of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland Title: The "Regional Problem", Urban Disadvantage and Development Classification-Jel: Abstract: Using a range of data on population, the labour force, employment, unemployment and incomes, Section 1 of this paper outlines the changing nature of the "regional problem" and offers an assessment of regional performance in Ireland over the last 25 years. In 1971 there was some justification for concluding that Dublin was performing well in comparison to other regions, particularly in the western and north-western parts of the country, but this generalisation is no longer tenable. Section 2 examines the problem of urban disadvantage with particular reference to the Dublin Region. This section also focuses on the meaning of development and whether the groups experiencing disadvantage benefit from the development process. The high levels of unemployment, educational disadvantage, lone-parent households, as well as the high proportion of people in the unskilled or semi-skilled social classes, all suggest that a substantial portion of the population has been largely excluded from the benefits of economic and social progress over the recent years. Creation-Date: 1999 X-Acknowledgements: We are grateful for the helpful comments and encouragement of various colleagues in Trinity College and, in particular, Andrew MacLaran, Alan Matthews and Frances Ruane. Any remaining inadequacies are obviously our responsibility. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of the Department of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin. File-URL: http://www.economics.tcd.ie/tep/tepno1PJ99.PDF File-Format: application/pdf Handle: RePec:tcd:tcduee:991 I abuse the RePEc handle (after normalizing it) as a handle. More on this soon. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel