Showing posts with label Jobs creation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jobs creation. 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...
Friday, July 26, 2019

26/7/19: Stop Equating Low Unemployment Rate to High Employment Rate

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There is always a lot of excitement around the unemployment stats these days. Why, with near-historical lows, and the talk about 'full...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

13/7/19: Mapping the declines in jobs creation

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Increasing market power concentration, falling entrepreneurship, rising concentration amongst the start ups, unicorns and billions in inve...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

18/6/19: Obama v Trump: Jobs Creation

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Who had the more impressive numbers in terms of jobs creation: President Obama or President Trump? This question is non-trivial. For a num...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

16/5/17: Technology: Jobs Displacement v Enhancement

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Technological innovation is driving revolutionary changes across the labour markets and more broadly, markets for human capital. These cha...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

26/1/16: 'More than 1,000 jobs per week' Government Claims v Reality

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One senior TD and a Junior Minister with position relating, indirectly, to employment and the labour market has just posted an interesting...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

25/2/15: QNHS Q4 2014: Employment Growth by Sectors & Activity

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In the first two posts covering the QNHS results for Q4 2014, I discussed Labour Force Participation Rate (poor news showing decline in...
Friday, August 22, 2014

22/8/2014: Minimum Wage and Employment: Recent Study

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The effects of minimum wage laws on employment levels and employment prospects for various categories of workers are subject of voluminous ...
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

7/8/2013: Sunday Times, July 28, 2013: Ireland's Polarised Paralysed Economy

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This is an unedited version of my article in the Sunday Times from July 28, 2013. The latest news from the economy front both in Ireland...
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Saturday, November 5, 2011

05/11/2011: Jobs destruction in Ireland 2008-2010

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So we had the Celtic Tiger, now we are having a Celtic Bust. Our extreme (for a young, small open economy with high levels of tertiary educ...