730 days to go, and questions for us all. Worth putting up a thread on this today.
Author: Stephen Kinsella
Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Limerick.
The ESRI’s Pete Lunn and David Duffy apply some fairly fancy econometrics in the latest issue of the Economic and Social Review to show what Leinster supporters like myself know simply by looking into our hearts. BOD is the greatest.
Nobody show this to Ryle Nugent.
Maynooth University
Friday, 12 May 2017
The fifth annual NERI Labour Market Conference will be held on Friday 12th May in association with Maynooth University’s Department of Applied Social Studies, the Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting and the Department of Sociology. The conference will run from 10:00am-16.00pm and will include research papers on various aspects of the Irish labour market and Irish labour market policy.
The NERI Labour Market Conference is intended to provide a forum for the presentation of research papers on labour market issues (North and South) and is held in May each year. Presentations from researchers, academics, and labour market practitioners are invited for this forthcoming conference. Those interested should submit a title and brief abstract (max 400 words) to tom.mcdonnell@nerinstitute.net
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
• Employment and Unemployment
• Precariousness and Low Pay
• Earnings and Labour Costs
• Productivity and Human Capital
• Labour Market Participation, Demographics and Labour Supply
• Labour Market Institutions (Minimum wages and collective bargaining)
• Labour Market Transitions, Migration, Age and Gender
• Pensions and Pensions Policy
Registration
The conference is open to all who are interested and is free to attend. However, you must register your intention to attend the conference by contacting info@nerinstitute.net
Key Dates
Submission Deadline:
31 March 2017
Registration Deadline:
5 May 2017
Notification of Acceptance:
14 April 2017
Conference Date:
12 May 2017
Contact: tom.mcdonnell@nerinstitute.net
The CSO is recruiting for permanent Statistician posts, details below:
http://www.cso.ie/en/aboutus/recruitment/
The Miriam Hederman O’Brien Prize is awarded by the Foundation for Fiscal Studies (http://www.fiscal.ie). The prize was launched in 2013 and you now have an opportunity to nominate candidates for the 2017 prize.
The purpose of the prize is to recognise outstanding contributors to matters relating to fiscal, economic and social policy. The winner will be awarded a prize of €1,000 together with a commemorative Gold Medal.
Nominations are invited for work completed during 2016 that has added to the public knowledge or understanding in areas such as taxation, public expenditure and other related fiscal policy topics.
Details of the prize, entry criteria and submission details are contained here. You can nominate your own work or work by others.
The closing date for nominations is 30 April 2017.