Browsing JSSISI: Symposia by Title
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Delivering integrated policy and services for children
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2007)The Irish Public Service has been relatively strong historically in the area of policy formulation. I have come to the conclusion, however, that we are relatively weak when it comes to implementation and many good policies ... -
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 ... -
Developing Solutions and Informing Irish Policymakers across the Pillars of Climate, Water, and Sustainability
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)This paper provides a brief overview of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Research programme within the context of the science policy interface. The paper asserts that robust evidence is necessary to inform the ... -
Economic and Fiscal Policy since 1997: What Caused the Crisis and How Should It Be Rectified?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2010)In this paper I propose to examine the background to the current crisis which involves both a contraction in the economy due in part to the global crisis, and a collapse in the tax base due to the disappearance of property ... -
The Economic and Societal Impact of University College Cork
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Economic Crisis, Exacting Voters and Twenty-Five Years of Electoral Transformation in Ireland 1997-2022
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Effects and Complexities of Deeper Trade and Investment Treaties
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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 ... -
Estimated Inflation by Household Characteristics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)Price changes, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) had remained relatively stable for the last number of years, with annual changes in the CPI remaining under +2.0% between September 2012 and June 2021 inclusive. ... -
Estimating the Prevalence of Asymptomatic Cases of Covid-19 in Our Communities
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)Resource planning in healthcare is dependent on many factors from the scale of the health challenge to the available human and infrastructural resources. With the sudden and unforeseen scale of the Covid-19 pandemic across ... -
The European Statistics Code of Practice as a pillar to strengthen public trust and enhance quality in official statistics
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Expanding Educational Opportunity: The Mission of the Queen’s Colleges and their Successors Since 1845
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Fiscal Adjustment and Macroeconomic Re-balancing in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2010)In the five quarters from 2008 Q1 to 2009 Q2, Ireland.s real GNP, seasonally adjusted, has fallen by 13.5%. The unemployment rate has risen by eight points, labour force participation has fallen and emigration has resumed. ... -
The Future is Now: The Science-Policy Interface for Achieving Sustainable Development
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)Strengthening the Science Policy Interface, at all levels of governance, is a key means of implementation the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This short paper addresses our most recent and important reports ... -
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 ... -
History of Queen’s College, Galway; University College Galway; and NUI Galway in Four Contrasting Images
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Income and Employment Impacts: Early Evidence from Administrative Data
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)This public policy brief uses newly available administrative data to examine the income and employment impacts of COVID-19 during the depths of the economy’s shutdown in 2020. It highlights the extent of labour market churn ... -
Income Inequality and Living Standards
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2022)
