Showing posts with label Irish labour costs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish labour costs. Show all posts
Saturday, April 11, 2015

11/4/15: 2014 European Labour Costs Comparatives

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Ireland's manufacturing is booming, services exploding, unemployment falling, and wages... well, wages... Here is the latest data fo...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

28/9/2013: Real v Imputed Labour Cost Competitiveness Gains: Ireland v EA17

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I wrote recently about the problems with Irish competitiveness and the thesis of significant gains in it since the onset of the crisis: ...
Friday, September 27, 2013

27/9/2013: Internal Devaluation: Picking a Right Target?

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Conventional wisdom of the 'internal devaluation' theory goes as follows: if a country like Ireland were to experience a structural...
Monday, April 15, 2013

15/4/2013: Irish Labour Costs: IDA spin and reality

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IDA presentation claims loudly & boldly that Ireland is one of 3 countries where nominal wages have dropped (slide 5). This raises...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

10/11/2012: 'Special' case redux?

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Just in case Angela Merkel reads EU Commission research... here's a chart summarizing the 'structural' adjustments to-date cou...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

29/8/2012: Some facts about Irish average earnings: Q2 2012

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Q2 2012 earnings and working hours data for Ireland has been released today by the CSO. Here are top changes and trends: Average hour...
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Sunday, July 29, 2012

29/7/2012: Irish Competitiveness

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Unedited version of my Sunday Times article from July 22. These days, with nearly 15 percent unemployment, and almost...
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Sunday, May 13, 2012

13/5/2012: Sunday Times 06/05/2012: Irish labour costs competitiveness

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This is my Sunday Times column from May 6, 2012 (last week), unedited version. Latest research from ESRI shows that, ...
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