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The Recovery in the Public Finances in Ireland following the Financial Crisis
(SSISI, 2017)
The turnaround in the fiscal position in Ireland over the past 6-7 years has been dramatic. From double-digit deficits, a rapidly rising debt ratio and entry into an EU/IMF support programme, by end 2015, the General ...
Memoriam: Thomas Kenneth Whitaker
(SSISI, 2017)
Thomas Kenneth (T.K.) Whitaker is generally regarded as the greatest Irish public servant of the twentieth century. A graduate of London University by external study, he was a career civil servant from 1934 to 1969. Appointed ...
Towards an Irish Recorded Crime Index
(SSISI, 2017)
Recorded crime statistics form an important component of criminal justice and social policy. Of equal importance as the number of crimes however, is measuring the seriousness of these crimes. The Irish Recorded Crime Index ...
Dublin House Prices: A History of Booms and Busts from 1708-1949
(SSISI, 2017)
This paper presents an annual property price index for Dublin over the period 1708-1949. Obtaining the data for a historical index and presenting it was the objective of this research. It was done in the belief that any ...
Income-Tested Health Entitlements: Microsimulation Modelling Using SILC
(SSISI, 2017)
The application of microsimulation techniques to tax and welfare policies is well established in many countries, including Ireland. The richness of the data contained in SILC, the CSO’s Survey on Income and Living Conditions, ...
Who is the Populist Irish Voter?
(SSISI, 2017)
Across the EU, the Great Recession begot economic and political crisis heralding a renewed march towards populism and party system fragmentation. Much commentary about Ireland remarked on the absence of a populist surge ...
The Irish Single-Currency Debate of the 1990s in Retrospect
(SSISI, 2017)
Ireland was one of the initial EU member states to move to currency union as of January 1st 1999. The single-currency project, and Ireland’s participation in it, had been vigorously debated within the Irish economics ...
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 ...
Seventy Years of Personal Disposable Income and Consumption in Ireland
(SSISI, 2017)
This paper compiles annual data on personal consumption and personal disposable income for Ireland over the period 1944 to 2014 and goes on to estimate consumption functions. Having established that the series are cointegrated, ...