Showing posts with label Irish public sector cuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish public sector cuts. Show all posts
Friday, July 26, 2013

26/7/2013: Forfas Report 2012: A Handy Guide to 'Egg-Face' Collision

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Ireland has been described as a 'Knowledge Economy", a science and R&D intensive economy, and island of Scholars (yes, while ...
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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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Saturday, June 16, 2012

16/6/2012: IMF Report on Ireland: Public Sector Pay Reforms

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Continuing with analysis of the IMF Article IV report on Ireland, the first post dealt with headline assessments of economic performance an...
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Saturday, January 7, 2012

7/1/2012: Irish Exchequer Results 2011 - Capital v Current Spending Trends

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In the previous posts we considered Exchequer results for 2011 for tax receipts and headline expenditure items. In this post we look at t...

7/1/2012: Irish Exchequer Results 2011 - Expenditure

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In the previous post I looked at the tax revenues side of the Exchequer figures for 2011. The core conclusions emerging from that analys...
Monday, December 12, 2011

12/12/2011: QNHS Q3 2011 - Take 2

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Another quick note on the QNHS latest data: Total labour force is now down 147,600 on peak levels Total employment is down 346,800 on p...

12/12/2011: QNHS Q3 2011

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Headline unemployment number out of QNHS for Q3 2011 is at 14.4% up on 14.2% in Q2. This is bad, but not as bad as two other core labour ma...
Monday, November 28, 2011

28/11/2011: Employment in Irish economy: Q3/Q2 2011

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The previous post ( here ) focused on the latest data for earnings across Irish economy, covering data through Q3 2011. Here, I provide the...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

17/09/2011: QNHS 2Q 2011 - public sector v private sector trends

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This is the second post on the data from QNHS for 2Q 2011. Table below summarises data from QNHS results, showing changes for specific secto...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Economics 7/10/10: Irish Government Spending habit

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Our leadership - from the Minister for Finance to the heads of the Central Bank and various quangoes, to the affiliated leading business fig...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Economics 12/05/2010: How not to do austerity...

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How not to do austerity? Well, Ireland is a good example. For all the tough talk about reforms and changes to spending habits of the pub...
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Friday, December 18, 2009

Economics 18/12/2009: Public Sector Earnings & Employment

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Per CSO release today: is the Government is losing the fight to keep this economy afloat? "Average weekly earnings in the Public Sector...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Economics 27/10/2009: Recessions, Busts and Crunches

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I am back from a very enjoyable (as always) trip to Paris and some 150km beyond. Superb retrospective of Pierre Soulages' work in Pompid...
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