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ABSENTEEISM , a See also:

term used primarily of landed proprietors who absent themselves from their estates, and live and spend their incomes elsewhere; in its more extended meaning it includes all those (in addition to landlords) who live out of a See also:country or locality but derive their income from some source within it. Absenteeism is a question which has been much de-bated, and from both the economic and moral point of view there is little doubt that it has a prejudicial effect. To it has been attributed in a See also:great measure the unprosperous See also:condition of the rural districts of See also:France before the Revolution, when it was unusual for the great nobles to live on their estates unless compelled to do so by a See also:sentence involving their " See also:exile " from See also:Paris. It has also been an especial evil i'n See also:Ireland, and many attempts were made to combat it. As See also:early as 1727 a tax of four shillings in the See also:pound was imposed on all persons .holding offices and employments in Ireland and residing in See also:England. This tax was discontinued in 1753, but was re-imposed in 1769. In 1774 the tax was reduced to two shillings in the pound, but was dropped after some years. It was revived by the See also:Independent See also:Parliament in 1782 and for some ten years brought in a substantial amount to the See also:revenue, yielding in" 1790 as much as {63,089. AaTTnORITI$s.—For a discussion of absenteeism from the economic point of view see N. W. See also:Senior, Lectures on the See also:Rate of See also:Wages, See also:Political See also:Economy; J. S.

See also:

Mill, Political Economy; J. R. McCulloch, See also:Treatises and Essays on See also:Money, £&c., See also:article "Absenteeism "; A. T. See also:Hadley, See also:Economics; on absenteeism in Ireland see A. See also:Young, Tour in Ireland (178o); T. See also:Prior, See also:List of Absentees (1729); E. See also:Wakefield, See also:Account of Ireland (1812); W. E. H. See also:Lecky, Ireland in the 18th See also:Century (1892); A. E.

See also:

Murray, See also:History of tke Commercial and See also:Financial Relations between England and Ireland (1903); See also:Parliamentary Papers, Ireland, 183o, vii., See also:ditto, 1845, xiX.-xxu.; in France, A. de Monchretien, Traicte de l'cekonomie polilique (1615); A. de See also:Tocqueville, L'Ancien Regime (1857); H. See also:Taine, See also:Les Origines de la France contemporaine, l'ancien Regime (1876).

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