Economic Incentives

Here are some snapshots of conditions in the labour markets of the EU15.  They are offered without commentary. Self employed with no pa...

The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) has assumed a greater role in providing information about the performance of the economy in r...

We know that employment is increasing.  The rate accelerated briefly in early 2013 before falling back but the level increased again in the ...

The CSO have data on the ‘seasonally adjusted standardised unemployment rate’ back to January 1983.  The rate is currently benchmarked to th...

The relative importance of SMEs to the Irish economy has been touched on during the recent discussion of SME debt.  Sometimes it is stated t...

The labour market results from the Quarterly National Household Survey continue to be impressively positive.  There is no doubt that this is...

There has been some talk recently of an improvement in labour market conditions.  This narrative has support from patterns such as this from...

Yesterday the CSO published their latest update of the Earnings and Labour Costs Survey .  Using complementary results from the Quarterly Na...

Unemployment rates in the EU27 and EA17 have rightfully being front and centre.  They are unacceptably high.  One sub-category that gets con...

Yesterday’s preliminary Census 2011 results have suggested that the population is 100,000 larger than previously estimated.  We now have an ...

The QNHS may be beginning to signal that stabilisation in the labour market is not far away.  In a previous post we examined the principle e...

The QNHS is used as the primary measure of unemployment in Ireland.  We already saw that there may be some issues with the method used by th...

Yesterday’s release of the the QNHS saw the headline rate of unemployment fall from 14.8% in Q4 2010 to 14.0% in Q1 2011.  This “improvement...