Tag: competitiveness
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Wage control: Only for the pixieheads
Wage control, it seems, lke much in Ireland, is for the little people. The pixieheads get patted on the head and told how good we are to bear down and buckle up, while the protected elites roll on.
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One of these things is not like the other…
At the top of the tree in academia are Personal or Chaired Professors. Are all created equal?
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Greek and Irish Competitiveness since 2008 – oops
Inspired by Kevin O’Rourke on Greek-Irish structural deficit reductions (they win) , here is my modest effort. Remember, the Greeks, shiftless lazy lot as they are, must work hard to restore competitiveness. We manly Irish have squeezed costs to a fare thee well, and now are ready to bestride the stage of ordoliberal export led…
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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 considering where to spend the break. There is little to concern some politicians, apart from…
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We need a joined up strategy on land banks
“Because there has been no carry forward costs to holding land (such as property tax), and the recommendations of the Kenny Report were never implemented, the state has been held to ransom by land speculators for development. “
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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 they also see the destruction of large numbers of ‘middle class’ jobs. When recoveries happen…