Brian M. Lucey

Tag: pay gap

  • What Lies, beneath. Civil and public service pay, again.

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    So, public sector pay is back on the radar. The publication by the CSO of the recent public/private sector pay comparisons has given rise to the usual outpourings from the organs of media billionaires. The facts on the face of it seem stark : see the graph. However, beyond the bilious soundbits of bitter hacks,…

  • Stabilizers

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    Ok..this is going to annoy everyone I suspect… One of the things that strikes me about the debate in Ireland is the fundamental misunderstanding that exists about the public sector. There is a large constituency of people who exhibit tendencies in their discourse that suggests that any wage over zero is too high – these are the die-hards whose…