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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
ESRI Policy Conference, 2009: The Labour Market in Recession
Date: Thursday April 30th 2009.
Time: 8.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, D 2.
The Irish labour market is in crisis, with employment contracting and unemployment growing at an alarming rate. This conference will examine key issues to be addressed in framing an appropriate policy response to the crisis. The Policy Conference is targeted at policy-makers and others with an interest in the labour market.
Programme
8.30 Registration and coffee
09.10 Opening Address,
Frances Ruane, Director ESRI
Session 1: Learning from Experience
09.20 Presentation of OECD Report: Activation Policies in Ireland,
David Grubb, OECD
10.00 What Works? Applying Lessons from the 1990s,
Philip O’Connell, ESRI
10.30 From Debt-crisis to Recovery: Finland in the 1990s,
Jaakko Kiander, Director, Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki.
11.10 Discussion and 11.20 Tea/Coffee
Session 2: Labour Market Behaviour
11.40 What do Migrants do in a Recession?
Alan Barrett (ESRI)
12.10 Profiling the Unemployed in Ireland: Predicting Stayers and Leavers,
Philip O’Connell, Seamus McGuinness and Elish Kelly, ESRI.
12.40 Discussion
01:00 Close
Registration is free but places are limited. Please visit our website at www.esri.ie for further details and to book online. Alternatively please email conference@esri.ie or phone 353 1 8632000 with the name, organisation, and contact phone number and email address of the person who wishes to attend.
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ESRI Seminars usually take place on Thursdays at 4 p.m. in the ESRI at Sir John Rogerson's Quay, unless stated otherwise. No booking is required. Please note that Seminar dates may change. Please check the web site regularly, at www.esri.ie.
ESRI Research Seminar "Attitudes Towards Domestic Abuse in Ireland"
Date: 09/04/2009
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Justine Horgan, Cosc (the National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence), and Peter Muhlau, Trinity College Dublin.
ESRI Research Seminar "Power and Plenty: Politics and Trade in the Very Long Run"
Date: 23/04/2009
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Kevin O’Rourke
ESRI Research Seminar "Trade in Services"
Date: 30/04/2009
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: James Markusen, University of Colorado and UCD.
ESRI Research Seminar "Industrial Clusters and Competitiveness"
Date: 07/05/2009
Time: 4 p.m.
Speakers: Paul Ryan and Majella Giblin, Centre for Innovation and Structural Change, NUI Galway.
ESRI Research Seminar "Outsourcing and Firm Productivity in Irish Manufacturing"
Date: 14/05/2009
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Fergal McCann, UCD.
ESRI Research Seminar: "Property Taxes"
Date: 21/05/2009
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Michael Brennan, NICS.
ESRI Policy Seminar "Social & Economic Effects of the Green Schools Programme"
Date: 04/06/2009
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Michael John O’Mahony, An Taisce.
ESRI Research Seminar "Equity in Irish Healthcare: What Do We Really Mean?"
Date: 18/06/2009
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Samantha Smith, ESRI and Health Policy and Management, TCD.
ESRI Research Seminar: "Linguistic Elitism and Gender in the Irish Labour Market"
Date: 25/06/2009
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Vani K Borooah, University of Ulster.
ESRI Research Seminar "Does Money Matter for Schools?"
Date: 09/07/2009
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Sandra McNally, CEE, London School of Economics.
ESRI Research Seminar "Do Agglomeration Economies Reduce the Sensitivity of Firm Location to Tax Differentials?"
Date: 23/07/2009
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Marius Brülhart, University of Lausanne.
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6th Euroframe Conference on Economic Policy Issues in the EU "Causes and Consequences of the Current Financial Crisis: what lessons for European Union countries?"
Venue: London; Date: 12/06/2009.
The EUROFRAME group of research institutes (CASE, CPB, DIW, ESRI, ETLA, IfW, NIESR, OFCE, PROMETEIA, WIFO) will hold its sixth annual Conference on Economic Policy Issues in the European Union in London on 12 June 2009. The aim of the conference is to provide an economic forum for debate on economic policy issues relevant in the European context.
Contacts:
Ray Barrell:rbarrell@niesr.ac.uk;
Catherine Mathieu: catherine.mathieu@ofce.sciences-po.fr, tel.: +33 (0) 1 44 18 54 37.
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PUBLICATIONS
Latest academic research on "Ireland in the Recession"
The ESRI paper entitled "Macroeconomic Context for a Sustainable Recovery" is published online on our website, at www.esri.ie. The ESRI website now contains pages linking to academic research of relevance for understanding the current recession in Ireland. Visit the pages on the ESRI website at www.esri.ie.
School Leavers' Survey Report 2007
Byrne, D., McCoy, S., Watson, D., ESRI and Department of Education and Science, March 2009.
The Organisation of Asylum and Migration Policies in Ireland
Quinn, E, Report Prepared for the European Commission Directorate-General Justice, Freedom and Security and published by the ESRI, February 2009.
"Accounting for Taste: An Examination of Socioeconomic Gradients in Attendance at Arts Events"
Lunn, P., Kelly, E., ESRI Working Paper No. 283, March 2009.
"Assessing the Incidence and Wage Effects of Overskilling in the Australian Labour Market"
Mavromaras, K. (University of Melbourne), McGuinness, S., King, F. Y. (University of Melbourne), The Economic Record, March 2009.
Consumer Sentiment Index
The latest KBC Ireland/ESRI Consumer Sentiment Index report.
"Convergence of Consumption Patterns During Macroeconomic Transition: A Model of Demand in Ireland and the OECD"
Lyons, S., Mayor, K., Tol, R.S.J., Economic Modelling, Vol. 26, 2009, doi:10.1016/j.econmod.2009.01.017, Published online 25 February 2009, The Netherlands: Elsevier.
"Environmental Accounts for the Republic of Ireland: 1990-2005"
Lyons, S., Mayor, K., Tol, R.S.J, Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, Vol 37, 2007/8, pp.190-216, Cheltenham: Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, March 2009.
"Estimating the Impact of Price Regulation on Service Quality in Post"
Swinand, G. (London Economics), Lyons, S., O’Grady, M. (London Economics), Murphy, D. (An Post), in M. A. Crew & P. R. Kleindorfer (eds.), Progress In The Competitive Agenda In The Postal And Delivery Sector, Cheltenham: Edward Edgar.
House Price Index
Latest permanent tsb/ESRI House Price Index report.
"Job Mobility in Ireland"
Bergin, A., The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 40, No. 1, Spring 2000, pp.15-47 Dublin: Economic and Social Studies, March 2009.
"Policy Options to Reduce Ireland's GHG Emissions"
Legge, T. (German Marshall Fund of the United States), Scott, S., ESRI Working Paper No. 284, March 2009.
"Rebuilding the Eastern Baltic Cod Stock under Environmental Change (Part II): Taking into Account the Costs of a Marine Protected Area"
Röckmann, C. (Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies), Tol, R.S.J., Schneider, U.A. (Hamburg University), St. John, M.A. (Hamburg University), Natural Resource Modeling, Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring 2009, pp.1-25, DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2008.00027.x, Published online 8 July 2008, Wiley Periodicals Inc.
"'The Balancing Act' - Irish Part-time Undergraduate Students in Higher Education"
Darmody, M., Fleming, B. (UCD), Irish Educational Studies, Vol 28 No 1, March 2009, pp. 67-83, DOI: 10.1080/03323310802597333, London: Routledge.
"Tax Structure and Female Labour Supply: Evidence from Ireland"
Callan, T., van Soest, A. (Tilburg University), Walsh, J.R., LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relation, Vol. 23, No. 1, March 2009, pp.1-35, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2008.00444.x, Published online 17 February 2009, Wiley.
"Testing Which Proposed Regulations Need 'Competition-Proofing'"
Lyons, S., in Ghose, A. (ed.), Impact of Government Policies on Marketing Strategies, Punjagutta: Icfai University Press, 2008.
"The Feasibility of Low Concentration Targets: An Application of FUND"
Tol, R.S.J., ESRI Working Paper No. 285, Dublin: ESRI, March 2009.
"Work-Family Conflict and Working Conditions in Western Europe"
Gallie, D. (Nuffield College), Russell, H., Social Indicators Research, DOI: 10.1007/s11205-008-9435-0, Published online 4 March 2009, The Netherlands: Springer, March 2009.
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