Category: Labour market
Is there a progressive approach to construction viability?
Robert Sweeney 03/05/2022
Global inflation has been hitting most of us hard. It has the potential to derail, or at least wobble, Ireland's recovering housing market. The claim that much building is financially unviable remains a thorny issue. If correct, it follows that policy should enable more profits to flow into construction, for example by further deregulating …
Essential workers: visible and invisible, organised and unorganised
James Wickham 03/02/2022
What about the workers? The pandemic led to a continual discussion of working from home and its consequences for everything from domestic life to …
The creeping marketisation of welfare and employment services
Michael McGann 12/07/2021
The issue of unemployment, and the hundreds of thousands of people who are out of work, has rightly been a focus of much media and policy attention …
Ireland, low pay, and the Living Wage
Robert Sweeney 18/12/2019
The idea that work should pay is a key component of our social contract. Without adequate pay, the ability to live a life that is independent and …
Future Jobs in Ireland
Douglas White 22/11/2019
I had the opportunity to be in Dublin earlier this month for the Irish Government’s ‘Future of Jobs’ summit. One year on from the first such …
The Inequality of Unemployment
Nora Hassan 17/07/2019
Ireland was among the European countries hit hardest by the financial crisis with unemployment soaring to 15 per cent. In the years following the …
Digital platforms
Rory O'Farrell 03/05/2019
In the mid-2010s, British researchers surveyed the number of digital platform workers (such as workers using Uber, Deliveroo, or Amazon Turk) by …
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Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …