JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847-
The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland holds a unique place in the study of the Irish economy and Irish society. Since its foundation in the autumn of 1847 the Society has analysed the major changes that have taken place in population, employment, legal and administrative systems and social services No other single source provides such a comprehensive picture of social change over such a long period'. - from "The Spirit of Earnest Inquiry" by Mary E. Daly, 1997
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When Worse is Better: Economic Policy Making in the Two Irelands of the mid 1950s
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)Economic Development (1958) remains a document associated with T.K. Whitaker’s role in Ireland’s shift away from protectionist economics. Whatever the report’s exact role in changing the direction of Irish economic strategy, ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland - One Hundred and Seventy-Sixth Session: 2022/2023
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland - One Hundred and Seventy-Sixth Session: 2022/2023 -
Three Necessary Actions Prior to Launch of Ireland’s Auto-Enrolment Retirement Saving Plan
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)The proposed Automatic Enrolment Retirement Saving (AE) Plan will fail to make a significant impact on pensions in Ireland unless three actions precede its introduction. First, we show that the existing tax reliefs for ... -
Sustainable Industrial Development: Enterprise Policy and Financing Decarbonisation
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Sustainable Development: The Role of Taxation
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Climate Change and the Financial System
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An Analysis of the Current Leaving Certificate Points System and a New Leaving Certificate Points System
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)This paper provides a technical assessment of the current Leaving Certificate points system that shows it to have serious flaws. These result in the use of random selection despite significant differences in student marks ... -
Institutional Investment in Housing: Financialisation 2.0 in the Case of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)This paper examines the growth of institutional housing investment in Ireland, part of a global phenomenon known as “Financialisation 2.0”. Using a unique Institutional Investment Database (IID) produced specifically for ... -
Assessing Household Living Standards and Income Resilience at the Outset of the Cost-of-Living Crisis
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)This paper explores the living standards of Ireland’s 1.9 million households at the outset of the 2021/23 cost-of-living crisis and considers the heterogeneous experience of that crisis by households across income distribution. ... -
Inflation and Monetary Policy – What Next?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)A combination of pandemic-related bottlenecks, strong demand and the war in Ukraine have contributed to record-high rates of inflation in the euro area and Ireland. Since the late-2022 inflation peak, headline inflation ... -
Estimated Inflation by Household Characteristics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)Price changes, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) had remained relatively stable for the last number of years, with annual changes in the CPI remaining under +2.0% between September 2012 and June 2021 inclusive. ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Session: 2021/2022
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2022)Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland - One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Session: 2021/2022 -
In Memoriam - Miriam Hederman O’Brien - Remarks on the Occasion of the Launch of the Online Archive of the Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2022)EDITOR’S NOTE: The late Dr Miriam Hederman O’Brien (1932-2022) joined the Council of the Society in 1988 and became Vice President in 2005. In her honour we publish her speech made on 16th May 2007 in the Long Room of the ... -
175 Years of Mismeasuring Ireland?: Some Traps Set by Historical Data
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2022)This paper outlines potential pitfalls in interpreting some Irish official statistics through history. We describe and discuss somewhat misleading aspects of statistics relating to agriculture, migration, age and vital ... -
A Century of Irish Agriculture: A Policy Driven Sector
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2022)In this paper we have assembled a time-series of agricultural statistics over the past century to describe many of the important trends of what has been an important sector in Ireland over the course of the past century. ... -
Income Inequality and Living Standards
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Economic Crisis, Exacting Voters and Twenty-Five Years of Electoral Transformation in Ireland 1997-2022
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Second Surge: Population Growth in Ireland since 1995
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Price, Size and Density: Dublin Housing in an EU Context
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2022)The current discussions and analysis around housing in Ireland lack a detailed analysis of the relationship between house size and prices in Ireland. Related to house size is the density of an area. In this paper I contribute ... -
History of Queen’s College, Galway; University College Galway; and NUI Galway in Four Contrasting Images
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