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Let's Talk About Pensions
Rosheen Callender 15/06/2020
The Current Pensions Outlook: At a time when so many of us have been hoping to see some new thinking and new directions – on sustainable industrial and agricultural development, on social and environmental progress, on broader indicators of societies’ well-being than the traditional economic ones like GNP – it’s disappointing that …
Some Missing Elements in the Pensions Debate
Michelle Maher 19/05/2017
In Ciarán Hancock’s recent (10 May) Irish Times article Time for the Government to Introduce Pension Auto-enrolment, he makes a welcome call for …
The Pension System in Ireland: Current Issues and Reform
Sinéad Pentony 21/12/2011
Sinéad Pentony: The TCD Pension Policy Research Group has recently published a Working Paper written by Jim Stewart called The Pension System in …
Executive directors, other employees and pension inequality
Gerard Hughes 10/06/2011
Gerry Hughes: In 2007 employer contributions to occupational pension schemes on behalf of employees amounted to €1.4 billion and the estimated cost …
Paying for the Jobs Initiative
Gerard Hughes 16/05/2011
Gerry Hughes: In 1988, in the middle of Ireland’s last economic crisis, the Minister for Finance in the Fianna Fáil Government, Ray McSharry, …
The proposed levy on pension funds
Jim Stewart 14/05/2011
Jim Stewart: The levy on pension funds makes economic sense, but it has been very poorly presented, and it is inequitable in its proposed from. The …
Unemployment and paying for pensions
03/11/2010
Andrew Watt of the European Trade Union Institute - who spoke at the recent FEPS/TASC Autumn Conference - has an interesting take on jobs and …
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Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He is …
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Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …