Earnings and Low Pay in the Republic of Ireland
As signs of economic recovery continue to emerge, issues relating to quality of life, living standards, the provision of public services and adequacy of income are returning to the policy sphere....
View ArticleA Hundred and Fifty Years of Vital Statistics: Documenting Demographic Change...
In December 2015 the CSO published the 150th annual Vital Statistics volume (for 2013) ? a publication which has played a central role in documenting demographic change in Ireland since the first...
View ArticleThe equality impact of the unemployment crisis
The extent of the Great Recession in Ireland is well documented. Real GDP fell by 10 per cent between 2008 and 2010 (Barrett and McGuinness, 2012). The impact that this large fall in economic activity...
View ArticleA Gravity Model Analysis of Irish Merchandise Goods Exports under Brexit
This article uses the Gravity Model to explore the effects of Brexit on Irish merchandise goods exports. We embed our approach within the framework of the Structural Gravity Model that incorporates...
View ArticleBusiness in a Compressed Economy
COVID-19 has led to the sharpest compression of economic activity in living memory (OECD, 2020). The recent roadmap published by Government gives clarity on when sectors may expect to be allowed...
View ArticleThe Northern Ireland Economy: Problems and Prospects
This paper considers the lacklustre performance of the Northern Ireland economy in recent decades, in particular the very low productivity growth. The low level of human capital and the continued low...
View ArticleHousing supply in Ireland since 1990: The role of costs and regulation
Housing has been central to both global and Irish economic fortunes in the past generation and was a major contributory factor in the Great Recession. Recently, greater attention has been paid around...
View ArticleA profile of financial incentives to work in Ireland
Tax and benefit systems have to strike a balance between the goals of providing an adequate safety-net income to those who need it and maintaining adequate incentives to take up employment and to...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Clusters: The Evolution of Ireland’s Economic Complexity since...
This paper characterizes the evolution of the manufacturing and industrial export structure of Ireland since 1995 within the framework of Economic Complexity and the Product Space. We observe a high...
View ArticleIncome-Tested Health Entitlements: Microsimulation Modelling Using SILC
The application of microsimulation techniques to tax and welfare policies is well established in many countries, including Ireland. The richness of the data contained in SILC, the CSO’s Survey on...
View ArticleThe Irish Single-Currency Debate of the 1990s in Retrospect
Ireland was one of the initial EU member states to move to currency union as of January 1st 1999. The single-currency project, and Ireland’s participation in it, had been vigorously debated within the...
View ArticleCovid19 and Inequality in Ireland: Initial Insights
The issue of low pay was important before the pandemic but has become even more visible because of unemployment rates and the necessity of government intervention. The data available before the...
View ArticleCovid19 and the Northern Irish Economy: Initial Insights
During today’s symposium, I'm going to share some thoughts on the initial impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the Northern Ireland economy, focusing on three broad areas. I will start by...
View ArticleMeasuring the Economic Impact of Covid-19 in Real Time
COVID-19 pandemic is a one-in-a-hundred year event. The economic consequences are unlike anything we have seen in modern times, in terms of scale, speed and depth of the shock. Restrictions to prevent...
View ArticleIncome and Employment Impacts: Early Evidence from Administrative Data
This public policy brief uses newly available administrative data to examine the income and employment impacts of COVID-19 during the depths of the economy’s shutdown in 2020. It highlights the extent...
View ArticleEstimating the Prevalence of Asymptomatic Cases of Covid-19 in Our Communities
Resource planning in healthcare is dependent on many factors from the scale of the health challenge to the available human and infrastructural resources. With the sudden and unforeseen scale of the...
View ArticleA Coded Taxonomy of the Statistical Indicators for Global Reporting of...
In 2015, 193 UN member countries signed Resolution A/RES/70/1 2030 – ‘Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’. The United Nations (UN) 17 Sustainable Development Goals...
View ArticleDeveloping Solutions and Informing Irish Policymakers across the Pillars of...
This paper provides a brief overview of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Research programme within the context of the science policy interface. The paper asserts that robust evidence is...
View ArticleThe Future is Now: The Science-Policy Interface for Achieving Sustainable...
Strengthening the Science Policy Interface, at all levels of governance, is a key means of implementation the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This short paper addresses our most recent and...
View ArticleThe Northern Ireland Economy: Problems and Prospects
This paper considers the lacklustre performance of the Northern Ireland economy in recent decades, in particular the very low productivity growth. The low level of human capital and the continued low...
View ArticleUnderstanding Income Inequality in Ireland
This paper shows that inequality in disposable income has fallen substantially in Ireland between 1987 and 2017. However, inequality in market income has risen on most measures over the same period,...
View ArticleTony Atkinson’s New Book, Measuring Poverty Around the World: Some Further...
A new book on measuring global poverty by the late Tony Atkinson was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press. We describe how we edited the incomplete manuscript that Atkinson left at his...
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