Showing posts with label Irish labour force. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish labour force. Show all posts
Friday, December 13, 2019

12/12/19: Ireland's Jobs Creation Track Record: Raising Some Questions

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Doing some research on the state of precariat in modern labor markets, I came across some interesting data from the 'poster country...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

30/7/18: Broader Unemployment vs Official Unemployment: Ireland

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In the first post (see above) looking at the broader measures of unemployment and dependency ratios, recall that CSO publishes s...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

20/6/18: Irish Labour Force Participation Rate: Persistency of a Problem

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With the latest CSO data reporting on labour force participation figures for 1Q 2018, time to update the chart showing secular decline in ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

24/11/15: Over-skilled & Under-Employed: Welcome to the Brave New World of Europe

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Irish policymakers are keen telling us that jobs creation has been robust and of high quality in recent years. Which, thus, begs a questio...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

24/9/15: Ireland's Remittances and Foreign Workforce

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In a recent post, titled  " Ireland: a land of un-remarkable savers ",  I covered EU Commission research on savings rates across...
Wednesday, September 2, 2015

2/9/15: House prices, rents and Irish demographics

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Based on latest data from CSO, Dublin has gained disproportionately in population compared to the rest of the country in 12 months through...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

30/8/15: Migration & Changes in Irish Population: Working Age Population

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In two previous posts, I looked at Irish migration and population changes data from the point of: - Top level analysis of migration and n...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

25/2/15: QNHS Q4 2014: Broader Measures of Irish Unemployment

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In the previous post ( http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2015/02/25215-qnhs-q4-2014-labour-force.html ) I covered the QNHS results for Q4 2...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

5/12/2013: Irish Education: In Need of Serious Reforms

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This is an unedited version of my column in October-November issue of the Village Magazine . Over the last two decades, Irish economic ...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

3/8/2013: Humanities: Don't Just Discount the Vital Set of Skills

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Over a month ago, I wrote in the Sunday Times about the topic of balance in education between the humanities and sciences and led this poin...
Thursday, July 4, 2013

4/7/2013: Jobs Creation by State Agencies

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Per press reports today: "IRELAND'S enterprise development agencies created nearly 9,000 net jobs in 2012, new statistics outlin...
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

2/7/2013: Sunday Times, June 30, 2013: Irish education system reforms

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times article from June 30, 2013. Note: an interesting related article on human capital and val...
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Thursday, June 7, 2012

7/6/2012: QNHS Q1 2012: First results

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The latest QNHS results for Q1 2012 are out. Headline readings from CSO release: There was an annual decrease in employment of 1.0% or 1...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Economics 02/06/2010: Regional variations in labour markets

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While working on a project relating to economic policies in Ireland, I was compiling data on regional variations in various series. Here is ...
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Friday, April 16, 2010

Economics 20/04/2010: Fas training for ex-Dell workers

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Last week, media report (Silicon Republic, 16/04/10, 300 out of 1,900 former Dell workers received FAS training ) provided some evidence tha...
Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Economics 6/04/2010: QNHS - the figures of despair

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Time to take a closer look at the latest data from Quarterly National Household Survey - released a week ago. The focus below is on less rec...
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