JSSISI: Symposia: Recent submissions

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    • Jurisprudence and its Impact Upon Public Policy – An Address 

      Gray, Margaret (Statistical Society and Social Inquiry of Ireland, 2021)

    • Jurisprudence and its Impact Upon Public Policy - An Address 

      Gallagher, Paul (Statistical Society and Social Inquiry of Ireland, 2021)

    • Covid19 and Inequality in Ireland: Initial Insights 

      Cohen, Shana (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)
      The issue of low pay was important before the pandemic but has become even more visible because of unemployment rates and the necessity of government intervention. The data available before the pandemic indicate the ...

    • Covid19 and the Northern Irish Economy: Initial Insights 

      Lambe, Conor (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)
      During today’s symposium, I'm going to share some thoughts on the initial impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the Northern Ireland economy, focusing on three broad areas. I will start by highlighting some points ...

    • Measuring the Economic Impact of Covid-19 in Real Time 

      Lydon, Reamonn (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)
      COVID-19 pandemic is a one-in-a-hundred year event. The economic consequences are unlike anything we have seen in modern times, in terms of scale, speed and depth of the shock. Restrictions to prevent the spread of the ...

    • Income and Employment Impacts: Early Evidence from Administrative Data 

      Acheson, Jean (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2020)
      This public policy brief uses newly available administrative data to examine the income and employment impacts of COVID-19 during the depths of the economy’s shutdown in 2020. It highlights the extent of labour market churn ...

    • Estimating the Prevalence of Asymptomatic Cases of Covid-19 in Our Communities 

      Comiskey, Catherine (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 

      Murphy, Enda; Walsh, Patrick Paul (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 

      Stewart, Dorothy (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 

      Bonini, Astra (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 ...

    • Business in a Compressed Economy 

      Brady, Gerard (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’ ...

    • Firms and Trade on the Island of Ireland 

      Lawless, Martina (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 

      FitzGerald, John (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 

      Johnston, Richard; Ruane, Frances; Heery, Laura (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 ...

    • Ireland in 2040: Urbanization, demographics and housing 

      Lyons, Ronan C. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2018)
      Ireland during the 20th century was a demographic outlier, rather than an economic one. With a swingtowards population growth, rather than away from it, during the 21st century, this outlier status will persist. However, ...

    • Delivering on the National Planning Framework 

      Hogan, Paul (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2018)
      The National Planning Framework (NPF) was published by Government together with the National Development Plan, as ‘Project Ireland 2040’, in February 2018. An explanation of how the National Planning Framework will be ...

    • Uneven economic development and its implications for policy: Lessons from the UK 

      Overman, Henry G. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2018)
      This paper examines the UK’s large and, by some measures, growing variation in economic performance across cities and regions and assesses how policymakers can and should respond. The traditional policy mix – including ...

    • Explaining the Belated Emergence of Social Protest in Ireland Between 2009 and 2014 

      Layte, Richard; Landy, David (SSISI, 2017)
      In the summer of 2009, Ireland was the first European country to officially enter recession following the fiscal crisis which had enveloped the international banking system following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in ...

    • Who is the Populist Irish Voter? 

      Reidy, Theresa; Suiter, Jane (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 ...

    • Globalisation, Inequality and Populism 

      Nolan, Brian (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 ...