Month: March 2010
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Cutting Public Sector Pay and Jobs – the High Cost of Irrelevance. The Recession Diaries – March 11
In a previous post we saw that public sector labour costs are below-average by EU-15 standards. The argument that Irish public sector workers are ‘over-paid’ in relation to their European…
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All The Wrong Options Have Been Pursued
In today's Irish Times 28 economists, academics and analysts have signed an op-ed attacking the Government's failed economic strategies while providing an alternative way forward. In short, they argue that…
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Revisitng Headlines – Public Sector Labour Costs. The Recession Diaries – March 2nd
With industrial action in the public sector ramping up a couple of notches, it is worth revisiting a couple of issues in relation to pay. A critical issue is the…
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Commentary on Irish Political Economy by Michael Taft, researcher for SIPTU
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