Economic Incentives

Eurostat produce a quarterly labour cost index. A number of sub-components are also produced. Here is the ‘wages and salaries’ component for...

A few weeks ago the OECD published the 2018 update of their Taxing Wages publication.  There is plenty in the report worth chewing over but...

We know that employment growth as measured by the QNHS is now the most reliable ‘snapshot’ indicator of the performance of the Irish economy...

Here is a table of possible pay changes under for some stylised sample public servants under the proposed public sector pay agreement. T...

This is old ground but somehow we keep having to go over it.  Yesterday’s Sunday Independent features an incredible article from James Fit...

The latest release from the CSO of the Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey didn’t attract a huge amount of attention when published...

There has been surprising (well surprising to me anyway) response to a front-page article from last weekend’s Sunday Independent.  Here are ...

UPDATE: The original version of this post was based on incorrect numbers that were posted to the CSO website yesterday.  This has now been c...

We gave a brief look at the CSO earnings data last week.  Here we will consider the release in more detail.  We will start by looking at av...

After a wait of over four months since we last examined earnings data on the Irish economy, the CSO have released the latest update of the...

The CSO have published their latest release of the Earnings Hours and Employment Costs Survey (EHECS). The data give an insight into employ...