JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847-: Recent submissions
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Estimating the Prevalence of Asymptomatic Cases of Covid-19 in Our Communities
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)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 ... -
A Coded Taxonomy of the Statistical Indicators for Global Reporting of Targets within the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)In 2015, 193 UN member countries signed Resolution A/RES/70/1 2030 – ‘Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’. The United Nations (UN) 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) lie at the heart ... -
Developing Solutions and Informing Irish Policymakers across the Pillars of Climate, Water, and Sustainability
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)This paper provides a brief overview of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Research programme within the context of the science policy interface. The paper asserts that robust evidence is necessary to inform the ... -
The Future is Now: The Science-Policy Interface for Achieving Sustainable Development
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)Strengthening the Science Policy Interface, at all levels of governance, is a key means of implementation the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This short paper addresses our most recent and important reports ... -
The Northern Ireland Economy: Problems and Prospects
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)This paper considers the lacklustre performance of the Northern Ireland economy in recent decades, in particular the very low productivity growth. The low level of human capital and the continued low levels of investment, ... -
Understanding Income Inequality in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)This paper shows that inequality in disposable income has fallen substantially in Ireland between 1987 and 2017. However, inequality in market income has risen on most measures over the same period, leaving Ireland the ... -
Future Life Expectancies in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)Mortality forecasts for the Irish population are published following each census by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) as part of their labour force and population projections. The projections rely on identifying and ... -
Tony Atkinson’s New Book, Measuring Poverty Around the World: Some Further Reflections
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)A new book on measuring global poverty by the late Tony Atkinson was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press. We describe how we edited the incomplete manuscript that Atkinson left at his death, the additions we ... -
Business in a Compressed Economy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)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’ ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland One Hundred and Seventy-Third Session: 2019/2020
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland One Hundred and Seventy-Second Session: 2018/2019
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The Changing Patterns of Production and Consumption of Official Statistics in Ireland 1989-2019
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)This paper examines the major improvements in Ireland’s official statistics since 1989, a period of exceptional economic and social change in Ireland. The Irish Statistical System now produces statistics that are comprehensive ... -
Firms and Trade on the Island of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)This paper documents the broad patterns of firm sales and participation in trade for Northern Ireland and Ireland. Looking across sectors and firm size groups, it examines the distribution of cross-border trade with a ... -
Investment in Education and Economic Growth on the Island of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)Looking at the post-War years, this paper considers how investment in education developed using different models and following different trajectories in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The result has been a very different ... -
Competitiveness on the Island of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)This paper considers Ireland and Northern Ireland’s relative international competitive performance across four policy input domains: education and skills; research, development & innovation; infrastructure and the business ... -
Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measures 2017
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)Spatial relative deprivation measures have been developed in Northern Ireland since the 1970s. Most recently, the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measures 2017 was released last year. Whilst the suite was an update ... -
Estimates of Foreign Assets and Liabilities for Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)This paper calculates foreign assets and liabilities for Ireland that are more reflective of foreign activities of Irish-resident entities. This is accomplished by stripping from the Irish international investment position ... -
US corporate tax rate cuts: Spillovers to the Irish economy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)We examine spillovers to the Irish economy from US corporate income tax rate cuts and find they lead to a small but persistent increase in Irish economic output. Our analysis of the transmission channels shows that an ... -
Ireland’s National Wage Agreements and Macroeconomic Performance: 1988–2008
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)This paper is a historical analysis of the role played by the seven National Wage Agreement’s (NWAs) in Ireland’s economic performance from their inception in 1988 to the Great Recession in 2008. The severity of the recession ... -
A Gravity Model Analysis of Irish Merchandise Goods Exports under Brexit
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019)This article uses the Gravity Model to explore the effects of Brexit on Irish merchandise goods exports. We embed our approach within the framework of the Structural Gravity Model that incorporates multilateral resistance ...
