Browsing JSSISI: Symposia by Date of Publication
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Building research capacity in the social sciences ? alternatives approaches
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2011)In contrast to previous decades, the past decade has seen major investments by the Irish government in the national research capacity. As part of this investment, there has been a significant investment in the social ... -
Research and policy-making ? strengthening the link
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2011)This paper reviews the current relationship between research and evidence based policy-making in Ireland. It reviews the role of the State in its broadest sense and considers relevant research required to underpin policy ... -
Reform of public policy-making in Ireland
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Politicians, the bureaucracy and economic policymaking over two crises: the 1950s and today
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2013)Recent reports into the performance of the Central Bank, the Financial Regulator and the Department of Finance in the lead-up to the current crisis identify three key weaknesses: the pressures towards `group think? within ... -
Researchers imply, policymakers infer: the relationship between evidence and policy
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Safeguarding trust in Irish Official Statistics: A code of practice for the Irish statistical system
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2014)For official statistics to be of value they must be trusted. Achieving and maintaining trust requires that statistics are produced in an objective, transparent and independent manner. In many countries codes of practice ... -
The Irish statistical system – Preserving trust through quality standards
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The European Statistics Code of Practice as a pillar to strengthen public trust and enhance quality in official statistics
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The equality impact of the unemployment crisis
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Statistical Society of Ireland, 2015)The extent of the Great Recession in Ireland is well documented. Real GDP fell by 10 per cent between 2008 and 2010 (Barrett and McGuinness, 2012). The impact that this large fall in economic activity had on the country’s ... -
Union membership in Ireland since 2003
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Statistical Society of Ireland, 2015)Using data from the Quarterly National Household Survey supplemented with some data from the European Social Survey we document a steady decline in union density in Ireland since 2003. While the great recession appeared ... -
An approach to estimating the effects of financing system change on Irish healthcare expenditure
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)The Irish healthcare system is a complex mix of public and private. The system is predominantly tax-financed (in 2013, 77 per cent of healthcare financing came from general taxation revenues); however, private health ... -
Who is the Populist Irish Voter?
(SSISI, 2017)Across the EU, the Great Recession begot economic and political crisis heralding a renewed march towards populism and party system fragmentation. Much commentary about Ireland remarked on the absence of a populist surge ... -
Globalisation, Inequality and Populism
(SSISI, 2017)Inequality in the distribution of income and wealth among individuals has now come to the fore as a core concern across the industrialised world. In 2013 then President of the United States Barack Obama identified rising ... -
Explaining the Belated Emergence of Social Protest in Ireland Between 2009 and 2014
(SSISI, 2017)In the summer of 2009, Ireland was the first European country to officially enter recession following the fiscal crisis which had enveloped the international banking system following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in ... -
Uneven economic development and its implications for policy: Lessons from the UK
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2018)This paper examines the UK’s large and, by some measures, growing variation in economic performance across cities and regions and assesses how policymakers can and should respond. The traditional policy mix – including ... -
Delivering on the National Planning Framework
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2018)The National Planning Framework (NPF) was published by Government together with the National Development Plan, as ‘Project Ireland 2040’, in February 2018. An explanation of how the National Planning Framework will be ... -
Ireland in 2040: Urbanization, demographics and housing
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2018)Ireland during the 20th century was a demographic outlier, rather than an economic one. With a swingtowards population growth, rather than away from it, during the 21st century, this outlier status will persist. However, ... -
Competitiveness on the Island of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)This paper considers Ireland and Northern Ireland’s relative international competitive performance across four policy input domains: education and skills; research, development & innovation; infrastructure and the business ... -
Firms and Trade on the Island of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)This paper documents the broad patterns of firm sales and participation in trade for Northern Ireland and Ireland. Looking across sectors and firm size groups, it examines the distribution of cross-border trade with a ... -
Investment in Education and Economic Growth on the Island of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)Looking at the post-War years, this paper considers how investment in education developed using different models and following different trajectories in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The result has been a very different ...
