NERI Seminar Dublin: How accurate and useful are forecasts of Irish economic performance?
'How accurate and useful are forecasts of Irish economic performance?' Seminar delivered on October 17th 2012.
Labour costs in accommodation and food sector below EU15 average
Labour costs in the accommodation and food sector are below the average of western European countries. Labour costs include wages, but also employers PRSI, which is far lower in Ireland than most western European countries. In the latest edition of the NERI's Quarterly Economic Facts, indicator 3.1b...
Alternative Fiscal Pathways
External event contribution Public sector deficit reduction has become an overriding concern and preoccupation of policy-makers across Europe. The situation in many countries is acute given the high level of general government debt and the continuing high level of government deficits half a decade into the current economic...
Working Poor are the largest group experiencing poverty
One in every seven of the Irish population (15.8%) lives on an income which is less than the official poverty line. Given a population of approximately 4.58 million people this implies that almost 725,000 live at risk of poverty. In the latest edition of the NERI's Quarterly Economic Facts document...
Presentation to NWCI 08 Oct 12
External event contribution Presentation 'Bearing the Brunt: Women and the Recession' - response to panel of speakers
Social Protection and Ireland Crisis
External event contribution Given Ireland's current situation, there are real challenges for the current and future shape of our Social Protection model. This presentation, considers where things stand given the current crisis and briefly reviews the challenges that lie ahead in both the short-term and long-term. The paper was...
Low Income and Low Pay in Ireland
External event contribution Presentation to the CPSU executive board meeting in Galway on September 27th 2012.
Quarterly Economic Facts - Autumn 2012
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)...