Showing posts with label Irish labour market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish labour market. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 5, 2020

5/5/20: A V-Shaped Recovery? Ireland post-Covid

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My article for The Currency  on the post-Covid19 recovery and labour markets lessons from the pst recessions:  https://www.thecurrency.new...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

7/6/2012: QNHS Q1 2012: Sectoral Decomposition

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In the previous post I covered the top-of-the-line data on QNHS for Q1 2012. This time, lets take a look at some sub-trends by occupation...

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...
Friday, February 3, 2012

3/2/2012: Ireland's Jobs Creation & Destruction data

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CSO recently published its analysis of the labour market looking into jobs creation and destruction in the economy - a new study, currently...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Economics 20/11/10: Irish labour taxes are too restrictive

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We often think of Ireland as low tax economy. We also think of ourselves as inhabiting flexible labour markets and enterprising world of wor...
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Monday, July 5, 2010

Economics 5/7/10: The toll of un- & under-employment

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Two interesting charts on the ratios of full-time employed and live register signees to total working age population (note, this combines qu...
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...
Saturday, April 10, 2010

Economcis 10/04/2010: Ireland's Competitiveness - not improving

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Often overlooked today (in the usual media focus on credit flows), Ireland's Harmonized Competitiveness Indicators, published by the Cen...
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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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Economics 10/02/2010: Can Labour Party lead?

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Does a coalition involving any party in partnership with Labour makes sense? Unfortunately, despite Labour Party having in its ranks some ve...
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Economics 02/02/2010: Minimum Wage Blues

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For those of you who missed my last Sunday Times article, here is an unedited version . Last week, this newspaper reported about the suc...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

economics 16/12/2009: Unemployment and Jobs Destruction in Ireland

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QNHS data is out for Q3 2009 and guess what... well, nothing new, really. Official unemployment rate is now 12.4% - just 10bps away from the...
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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Economics 28/11/2009: Irish labour market snapshot

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An interesting paper on labour market published last week provides a good insight into pre-crisis comparatives for Ireland vis-à-v...
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