Quarterly Economic Facts - Spring 2015

19 Mar 2015
infobo
Recent years have seen a huge growth in the supply, range and timeliness of data from a variety of official agencies including the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), Eurostat, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...

Monday Blog: It's all about choices

14 Mar 2015
Tom Healy
With a general election in the Republic of Ireland looming sometime between now and this time next year it is timely to consider what choices and policy options are appropriate. The Nevin Economic Research Institute is not associated with any political party or platform. Our job is to undertake...

Employment in the public sector

12 Mar 2015
Daragh McCarthy
As shown in the latest edition of the Quarterly Economic Facts, the public sector in the Republic of Ireland accounts for 18.4 per cent of total employment—not far from the average level across OECD countries. The public sector employees make up 20 per cent of the total number of people working in...

Monday Blog: From Strabane to Strangford Lough

07 Mar 2015
Tom Healy
(HMRC) and £650 million (DFP) for the total amount of corporation tax collected per annum. These may be under-estimates to the extent that corporations with HQs in Britain may extract profits in Northern Ireland but book them in Britain. A cut in this tax could cost well over £100 million per annum...

NERI Seminar: Deprivation on the Island of Ireland

06 Mar 2015
Daragh McCarthy
Trutz Haase was the speaker at the most recent NERI seminar on deprivation on the island of Ireland. Over the course of the presentation, Trutz provided an overview of the Irish deprivation indices, covering the conceptual underpinnings of the 2011 Pobal Haase-Pratschke (HP) Deprivation Index for...

Gender equality: Ireland and the EU

06 Mar 2015
Micheál Collins
Sunday marks International Women’s day, an opportune time to reflect on gender equality issues and the latest data on this topic. Last July the CSO issued their annual ‘ Women and Men in Ireland’ report and included for the first time a new index summarising gender equality in Ireland and comparing...

Public Sector Employment in Northern Ireland

05 Mar 2015
infobo
The Northern Ireland Executive is set to commence a voluntary redundancy scheme in the public sector in January 2015. Whether or not such a scheme is necessary or desirable is not the subject of this piece. This inBrief seeks to examine the potential impact of such a scheme on the Northern Ireland...

Incomes still 14% below pre-crisis levels

05 Mar 2015
Micheál Collins
Yesterday, the UK think-tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies issued a report noting that average UK household incomes had returned to around their pre-recession level after a “historically slow recovery”. The latest data on Irish income levels tell a different story. Using data from the CSO’s SILC...

Outsourcing and Value for Money

03 Mar 2015
infobo
Public sector outsourcing is the process of contracting out a service or a function to another body, such as street cleaning or internal IT services. Over recent years considerations of outsourcing have gained added attention, driven by pressures on government budgets, perceptions of savings from...
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