JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847-: Recent submissions
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: One Hundred and Seventy-Seventh Session: 2023/2024
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The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: Prospects and Challenges Approaching 200
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2024)This paper is a vote of thanks to Professor Shane Whelan’s (2024) concise, interesting and insightful history of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland (SSISI). The paper also offers a prospective vision for ... -
‘But what hope is there for a nation which lives on potatoes?’: A Brief History of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2024)This paper gives a brief history of the Society. It suggests that what is remarkable about the Society is not its origin but its longevity: it is the sixth longest surviving statistical society in the world at 177 years ... -
Applied Intelligence through Census Insight: Forward Planning and Delivering Sustainable Communities
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The Role of the Planning Process in Ensuring Effective Housing Supply
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Planning for Housing in Ireland: Historical Legacies and New Challenges
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Administrative Meets Survey Data: Measuring Household Indebtedness in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2024)The 2020 Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) marked the first time that survey data from Irish households was supplemented with administrative data from the Central Bank’s Central Credit Register (CCR). Using ... -
Economic Geography and the Irish Border: A Market Access Approach
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2024)This paper examines the economic impact of Ireland’s partition, assessing market access losses using detailed geospatial data and multimodal transport network analysis. The study reveals that partition significantly reduced ... -
The Regional Location of Indigenous and Foreign Manufacturing Establishments, 1929-1975
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2024)Regional industrial location has been a matter of intense political interest throughout the history of the state. Details of the geographic distribution of manufacturing establishments are sparse however – particularly up ... -
Distinctive Features of the Irish Banking Crisis
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2024)The paper reviews the causes, evolution and resolution of the severe property-related macro-financial boom and bust that crippled the Irish economy 2008-13. Among the distinctive features were a blanket government guarantee ... -
When Worse is Better: Economic Policy Making in the Two Irelands of the mid 1950s
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)Economic Development (1958) remains a document associated with T.K. Whitaker’s role in Ireland’s shift away from protectionist economics. Whatever the report’s exact role in changing the direction of Irish economic strategy, ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland - One Hundred and Seventy-Sixth Session: 2022/2023
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland - One Hundred and Seventy-Sixth Session: 2022/2023 -
Three Necessary Actions Prior to Launch of Ireland’s Auto-Enrolment Retirement Saving Plan
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)The proposed Automatic Enrolment Retirement Saving (AE) Plan will fail to make a significant impact on pensions in Ireland unless three actions precede its introduction. First, we show that the existing tax reliefs for ... -
Sustainable Industrial Development: Enterprise Policy and Financing Decarbonisation
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Sustainable Development: The Role of Taxation
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Climate Change and the Financial System
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An Analysis of the Current Leaving Certificate Points System and a New Leaving Certificate Points System
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)This paper provides a technical assessment of the current Leaving Certificate points system that shows it to have serious flaws. These result in the use of random selection despite significant differences in student marks ... -
Institutional Investment in Housing: Financialisation 2.0 in the Case of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)This paper examines the growth of institutional housing investment in Ireland, part of a global phenomenon known as “Financialisation 2.0”. Using a unique Institutional Investment Database (IID) produced specifically for ... -
Assessing Household Living Standards and Income Resilience at the Outset of the Cost-of-Living Crisis
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)This paper explores the living standards of Ireland’s 1.9 million households at the outset of the 2021/23 cost-of-living crisis and considers the heterogeneous experience of that crisis by households across income distribution. ... -
Inflation and Monetary Policy – What Next?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)A combination of pandemic-related bottlenecks, strong demand and the war in Ukraine have contributed to record-high rates of inflation in the euro area and Ireland. Since the late-2022 inflation peak, headline inflation ...
