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14 Aug 2015

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Monday Blog: UK 'Living Wage' move announced

It is estimated that around 166,700 employees, or 23% of the total in Northern Ireland earned below £7.20 per hour in April 2014. On the face of it...

By Tom Healy
06 Aug 2015

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The impact of precarious work on wages, productivity and economic growth

Temporary, short-term forms of employment in the early stages of an economic recovery are a well-established feature of the labour market; however...

By Daragh McCarthy
06 Aug 2015

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Monday Blog: Social and economic investment holds the key

Spending on productive capacity includes not just ‘bricks and mortar’ but all those resources that give rise to socially useful results over time...

By Tom Healy
05 Aug 2015

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The Structural Balance - Where Facts become blurred

Ireland is expected to successfully exit the corrective arm of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) at the end of 2015. From 2016 onwards Irish...

By Dr Tom McDonnell
31 Jul 2015

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Monday Blog - Review of 2013

This week's blog looks back at articles from 2013: Title Date Main Keyword Other Keywords Economic Development with a purpose 23-Dec Vision Taxation...

By Tom Healy
27 Jul 2015

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Monday Blog - Review of 2014

This week's blog looks back at articles from 2014: Ageing well 22-Dec Demographics Pensions, Social wage The Wages Elephant is in the Domestic Parlour...

By Tom Healy