Category: Labour market
Is Ireland heading into a slowdown, too?
Michael Taft 11/08/2011
Michael Taft: The global recovery is now expected to ease off in the latter half of this year with a range of data suggesting a slowdown in the …
Thomas Palley on a global minimum wage system
22/07/2011
Thomas Palley is Bernard L. Schwartz Economic Growth Fellow with the New America Foundation. This piece was originally published in the FT …
Lessons from Brazil
Paul Sweeney 28/06/2011
Paul Sweeney: While the recession shows no sign of ending here, it is good to look abroad at other counties which had hard times and are doing well …
Cut Rents not Wages to Save Jobs in Retail
Nat O'Connor 23/06/2011
Nat O'Connor: Retail Excellence Ireland (REI) has released a survey of their members, which they contend shows that abolition of the JLC system would …
Why are businesses going out of business?
Michael Taft 01/06/2011
Michael Taft: To listen to employers’ groups and Minister Bruton, you’d think that businesses are going out of business because the lowest paid …
Wage-setting mechanisms: statement by 36 economists, analysts and social scientists
31/05/2011
“We broadly welcome the Report of the Independent Review of Employment Regulation Orders and Registered Employment Agreement Wage-Setting …
Economics or politics? The longer game
Tom McDonnell 30/05/2011
Tom McDonnell: The reported decision to go well beyond the recommendations of the Duffy-Walsh report, coupled with the tax cutting emphasis of the …
The madness of the drive to lower wages
Michael Burke 30/05/2011
Michael Burke: IBEC’s attack on the JLC wage setting mechanisms in order to drive pay lower is not simply morally indefensible. It is economically …
The Gloves are Off!
Sinéad Pentony 27/05/2011
Sinead Pentony: When the Report of the Independent Review of EROs and REA Wage Setting Mechanisms was published on Wednesday, there was a general …
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