The case for investment in social housing

07 Oct 2014
Daragh McCarthy
"Regeneration schemes”, we must never forget, are not just about plans, structures or budgets. They are not just about the physical houses provided. They are about communities that are enabled to thrive and flourish. They are about people who are being acknowledged and encouraged to develop a proud...

Economic Outlook, Autumn 14

External event contribution
Slides from Dr Tom McDonnell's presentation to the PSEU conference.

Recent VAT changes: who gained? who lost?

01 Oct 2014
infobo
Across the EU changes to indirect taxes, and particularly VAT, have been a central part of countries response to the economic crisis. By mid-2014, 22 of the 28 EU member states had increased VAT rates since the onset of the economic crisis in 2008. Over that period VAT rates have featured as an area...

Fact of the week: long term unemployment share

30 Sep 2014
Daragh McCarthy
As shown in the latest Quarterly Economic Facts , the long term unemployment share gives the number of people that have been looking for work for 12 months or more as a proportion of the total number of people unemployed. The rate in the Republic of Ireland has risen sharply in recent years, over...

Monday Blog: Dealing with a terrible marriage

27 Sep 2014
Tom Healy
They were tall, elegant, famous, beautiful and affluent. It was a fairy-tale marriage deemed to last forever …. until the gales of crisis struck and deep cracks were exposed. In 2002 and in the run-up to the introduction of the Euro most commentators and policy makers imagined that peace, stability...

Quarterly Economic Facts - Autumn 2014

23 Sep 2014
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: Getting our priorities right

20 Sep 2014
Tom Healy
A curious feature of public debate in the run-up to Budget 2015 in the Republic of Ireland next month is the extent of focus on reducing income tax for the top 20% of workers (those paying the top income tax rate). These account for just under 400,000 persons at work and make up 18% of all tax cases...

Youth unemployment and changes to Jobseeker's Allowance

17 Sep 2014
Daragh McCarthy
Currently, there are 24 unemployed people for every job vacancy. This is a problem for everyone looking for work, but makes it particularly difficult for young people who tend to have less work experience. Budget 2014 reduced Jobseeker’s Allowance (JA) to recipients less than 26 years of age. The...
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