Category: Labour market
Pathways to Work - can it deliver?
Sinéad Pentony 02/03/2012
Sinéad Pentony: Pathways to Work was launched last week and it sets out to achieve some much needed reform in relation to labour market activation …
26 into one won't go
Michael Taft 26/01/2012
Michael Taft: Media outlets are reporting a new crackdown on the unemployed. Apparently, the Department of Social Protection intends to introduce new …
Employment is down
Tom McDonnell 12/12/2011
Tom McDonnell: It just keeps getting worse. Long-term unemployment now accounts for 56.3 per cent of total unemployment while the seasonally adjusted …
A new deal is required
Tom McDonnell 01/12/2011
Tom McDonnell: On Monday and Tuesday we will be treated to the latest instalments of the austerity show. While the structural deficit does need to be …
Cork incomes seminar
30/09/2011
Videos of yesterday's seminar on 'Incomes - Instruments of Recovery', held in Cork, will be available shortly. Meanwhile, click here to see some of …
Party nation
Michael Taft 27/09/2011
Michael Taft: Remember that statement – how during the boom years we all ‘partied’ as a nation? Remember those prescriptions – how we had to …
On premature optimism
Terry McDonough 26/09/2011
Terrence McDonough: On Thursday, some positive Irish growth figures provided an island of optimism in a sea of bad international economic news. Any …
The four factors shifting power away from workers and citizens
Paul Sweeney 23/09/2011
Paul Sweeney: In developed countries, there has been a decline in labour’s share of national income going to wages for many years. This has major …
Short-term fiscal book keeping over strategic thinking
Slí Eile 03/09/2011
Slí Eile: Given the current drive to scale back on the quality and quantity of public service here are some interesting and provocative comments on …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
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Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …