Showing posts with label Irish public sector. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish public sector. Show all posts
Thursday, February 13, 2020

13/2/20: Civil Services Effectiveness Index 2019 and Ireland

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Analysis of public sector efficiencies and effectiveness is a hard and empirically imprecise exercise, with severe risks of running agains...
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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Thursday, December 20, 2012

20/12/2012: Pensions, health costs & education fees for 2014-2015

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Staying with the IMF report on Ireland, and with the theme of 2014-2015 adjustments, here's again what the IMF had to say on what we s...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

19/12/2012: Fiscal Issues, flagged by the IMF

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Keep on reading the IMF report, folks. Nice little bots on offer regarding the fiscal programme performance. Platitudes abound, well-des...
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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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...
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...
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...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

13/02/2011: Public Sector Earnings - the need for change hasn't gone away

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A quick run through the numbers in employment and pay rates for the public sector for 2010. A note of caution: these figures do not cover co...
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

15/01/2011: Austerity and structural deficits

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In recent days, there have been some questioning responses to a series of posts I did earlier this month on Irish Exchequer results for 2010...
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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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Monday, August 2, 2010

Economics 2/8/10: External corruption - Ireland's scores

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Transparency International published Progress Report 2010: Enforcement of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Economics 16/10/2010: Organizational systems and uncertainty

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I came across this very interesting, and to me - far reaching - paper on the effects of organizational structures on the organization's ...
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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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Economics 25/04/2010: Forfas' mathematical modeling powers

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Name and shame, folks. The table below is reproduced from Forfas' "Profile of employment and unemployment" publication from Fe...
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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, December 1, 2009

Economics 01/12/2009: A real breakthrough of Mr Cowen

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SUMMARY So per latest reports, the nation is saved. Facing a systemic deficit of €14bn per annum, the leaders of the Social Partn...
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Economics 21/11/2009: Public v private sector income inequality is up, again

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Updated images files There are many claims flying about our bearded men of Siptu and Ictu nowadays. None are more offensive than their claim...
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