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Tag Archives: competitiveness
Revisiting the Croke Park Agreement on Public Sector Pay
This is an extended version of a column published in the Irish Examiner 7 July 2012. It’s the silly season, when the politicians are if not quite dusting down their buckets and spades at least leafing idly through brochures and … Continue reading
Posted in Blogpost, Journalism
Tagged competitiveness, economy, Public sector pay, rationality, urban legends
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The need for a land banking strategy
Reblogged from Ireland after NAMA: There was an article in Tuesday’s Irish Times concerning the land aggregation scheme run by the Department of Environment. To date, 47 sites with a loan book of €110 million has been transferred to the … Continue reading
Jobs, education and industrial inertia
This is a hyperlinked version of a column published in the Irish Examiner on Saturday 28 April 2012 Recent research for the USA suggests that not only are many recoveries from crashes etc jobless for a long time, but that … Continue reading
