ESRI Budget Perspectives 2010 conference
This ESRI conference is taking place this morning. The new Governor Patrick Honohan delivered an opening address which provides an interesting analysis of the Irish economic and fiscal situation: his...
View ArticleRetaining Talent
Yesterday’s QNHS (Q3 2009) release provides a timely update on trends in the immigrant workforce. In the period from the third quarter of 2008 the number of non-Irish nationals in employment fell by...
View ArticleCSO Population and Migration Estimates
Also from the CSO today, estimates of population and migration for the year ending in April 2010. The headline figure that will attract the most attention is net outward migration of 34.5 thousand, the...
View ArticleExit, voice, loyalty and Ireland
I don’t agree with everything in this article, by any means, but it is thought-provoking and topical. And I definitely agree with the authors about the brilliance of Albert Hirschman. Besides, it gives...
View ArticleQEC Autumn 2010
The latest QEC is here. Here’s the press release: We expect that GNP will contract by 1½ per cent this year. For GDP, we expect a decline of ¼ per cent. For 2011, we expect GNP to grow by 2 per cent...
View ArticleMigration, the limits of internal devaluation, and the bailout
It is time to dust off old ways of thinking about the Irish economy that were useful in the past. In the long run, migration sets a floor to Irish wages. It has been thus ever since the Famine of the...
View ArticleIrish Remedy for Hard Times: Leaving
The Wall Street Journal carries an extensive article on Irish emigration.
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Migration Estimates
This is an addendum to John McHale’s last post and a response to JTO’s plea for more real data on this site. Below is a consistent series (based on CSO data) for the net migration rate from 1961 to...
View ArticlePreliminary Census Results Analysed
Three related posts readers of this blog should be interested in. First, IrelandafterNama show and describe the geographic variation we see within the preliminary Census results (which are here;...
View ArticlePay for performance in academia
Last week, I linked to two papers, one showing that students prefer to enroll in highly ranked universities, and another one showing that a generalization of the Hirsch index partly explains who gets...
View ArticleRevealed preferences for climate
Eight academic economists have left Dublin in recent months or will leave shortly. That may seem like a small number, but there are only 200 or so academic economists in the country. They all have...
View ArticleFriday Conference: Demography Session
The podcast and slides from the session on demography at the Friday conference are below. Podcast Chair: Kevin Denny (UCD) Orla Doyle (UCD) Early Educational Investment as an Economic Recovery Strategy...
View ArticleTo ungovern is to depopulate
There are costs and benefits to everything, even emigration at a time of economic crisis. We Irish have probably gotten so used to (silently) thanking our lucky stars that our young are not hanging...
View ArticleWW1 and international migration
The latest contribution to the VoxEU series on the economics of World War I is available here.
View ArticleEmigrants, tax rates, and debt
Paul Krugman has an interesting piece here, and I can’t resist posting a link to something similar I wrote back in 2010. PK’s piece also gives me an excuse to post a link to this piece by Oxford...
View ArticleCritical Quarterly columns
I’m writing an economics column in Critical Quarterly, a humanities journal, which is a bit of fun. They are supposedly free to view for 12 months after publication. I already posted a link to the...
View ArticlePreliminary Census Results
The CSO have published some preliminary findings from last April’s Census. The population was measured to be 4.76 million up from 4.59 million in 2011 giving an increase of 170,000 (+3.7%). The...
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