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 ...

The WTO Ministerial meeting in Doha in November 2001 launched a new Round of world trade talks known as the Doha Development Agenda or Death. DDA represents a new approach to the goal of integrating developing countries ...

COVID-19 has led to the sharpest compression of economic activity in living memory (OECD, 2020). The recent roadmap published by Government gives clarity on when sectors may expect to be allowed re-open again, but ‘normal’ ...

In the centenary year of Cardinal Newman's death and when universities and higher education are under widespread and critical appraisal it is fitting and timely that the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland ...

In the first half of this paper I summarise the trend in Irish deaths rates over the period 1973-2006. In the second half I discuss some possible explanations of these trends.

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 ...

We are proceeding in this symposium from the general to the particular; and my task is to discuss in the broadest terms the general economic outlook for the United Kingdom in 1954. This seems to me to involve two questions, ...