Reforming Community Employment

29 Apr 2013
infobo
Five years into Ireland's unemployment crisis the nature of our policy response has been slow. In general attention has been focused on employment creation, a worthy and necessary goal, but with limited attention on the nature of the unemployment crisis and the likely long-term impediments to...

Reforming Community Employment

29 Apr 2013
Micheál Collins
Five years into Ireland's unemployment crisis the nature of our policy response has been slow. In general attention has been focused on employment creation, a worthy and necessary goal, but with limited attention on the nature of the unemployment crisis and the likely long-term impediments to...

Monday Blog: Where do we go from here?

29 Apr 2013
Tom Healy
Public debate about matters of public concern in Ireland has been characterised in a number of ways. I suggest that the following traits may be stronger than elsewhere in the world and could reflect deep and enduring historical factors: There is a disproportionate emphasis on 'survival' with the...

How much income do you need in retirement?

23 Apr 2013
Micheál Collins
Pensions and pension's policy are back on the agenda following the recent release of the OECD report on the Irish pensions system. Details and the document are here: http://www.welfare.ie/en/pressoffice/Pages/pr220413.aspx At the core of much discussion on pension issues is the question of what is...

Northern Ireland still lags behind UK on Earnings

22 Apr 2013
Paul Mac Flynn
The Distribution of earnings has remained remarkably static in Northern Ireland over the past two years. The number of people earning under £20,000 was 57%, the same figure recorded in the previous year. The most significant decreases have been among those earning over £150,000 and those earning...

Ireland has the sixth lowest labour costs in Western Europe

17 Apr 2013
Rory O'Farrell
In the European Union Irish hourly labour costs (the average cost to an employer of hiring a person for an hour) are below those of Germany, Austria, Finland, Netherlands, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden. This is according to the latest data from Eurostat, the European statistics...

Quarterly Economic Facts - Spring 2013

10 Apr 2013
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)...
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