Inter-Regional Income Differences in Ireland: Real or Perceived Regional Divides

External event contribution
Abstract Ireland comprises two regions at NUTS2 and eight regions at NUTS3 level. Among the primary factors used to differentiate between these regions are average income levels. Up until recent years, the availability of representative and timely income data to profile inter- and intra-regional...

NERI and Taxation Research

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An overview of the NERI's work programme on taxation related research.

Financing for Development: Tobin Taxes and National Tax Systems

External event contribution
This paper contributed to a seminar entitled: Financing for Development: Tobin taxes, national tax systems and international tax transparency. The session considered the challenges associated with the need for developing countries to identify and develop sustainable revenue sources which can be used...

Towards a Basic Income

External event contribution
Towards a Basic Income - Dr Micheál Collins NERI Over the past four decades, despite economic booms and busts, Ireland's income distribution has remained remarkably static. Engrained in this income distribution structure is a high and sustained level of income inequality relative to our fellow EU...

There are 28.3 unemployed people for every vacancy

30 Jul 2012
Rory O'Farrell
In searching for solutions to the unemployment crisis, it can be tempting to look for cheap solutions to solve the problem. One idea is that if we cut social welfare, then the unemployed would have an incentive to look for work. As shown by indicator 2.6 of the Quarterly Economic Facts, Eurostat...

The effects of an investment stimulus

23 Jul 2012
Rory O'Farrell
The idea of an investment stimulus got a boost last week. Though people may disagree over the extent to which this is 'new money', it shows that at the very least, the government want to be seen to be pro-investment stimulus. Coincidentally, this week I presented a working paper which uses the...

An Examination of the Effects of an Investment Stimulus

19 Jul 2012
infobo
An investment stimulus is regularly proposed as a response to the recent dramatic fall in domestic demand in the Irish economy. In contrast, critics of an investment stimulus cite the high import share in the Irish economy as a reason for why the benefits of a stimulus would leak from the Irish...
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