Browsing by Subject "Social partnership"
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Benchmarking, social partnership and higher remuneration: wage settling institutions and the public-private sector wage gap in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)This paper uses data from the 2003 and 2006 National Employment Surveys to analyse the public-private sector wage gap in Ireland. In particular, we investigate the impact of awards implemented under a number of wage setting ... -
Discussion Paper on Wellbeing and Competitiveness, July 2008
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A Framework for Partnership - Enriching Strategic Consensus through Participation
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The Impact of Social Partnership on Ireland's Competitiveness
(ESRI, 2010)Social partnership has been a central facet of Irish society since 1987. In order to support economic growth, a principal objective of the partnership process has been to achieve moderate increases in wages in exchange for ... -
New modes of governance and the Irish case: finding evidence for explanations of social partnership
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)This paper applies insights from governance and multi-level governance(MLG) studies to the analysis of Social Partnership in order to: (1) outline a methodological approach for the study of Social Partnership over time; ... -
Origins and significance of the community and voluntary pillar in Irish social partnership
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)The Irish social partnership is comparatively unusual in the way that corporatist bargaining also accommodates community and voluntary sector organisations. This paper examines the origins and significance of the ... -
Politics and social partnership: flexible network governance
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)This paper reassesses the relationship between social partnership and the broader Irish policy process. What has developed may be conceptualised as ?flexible network governance?. While pay regulation may be less strongly ... -
Social partnership as a mode of governance: introduction to the special issue
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)The development of ?social partnership? institutions has been one of the most striking, and surprising aspects of the transformation of Irish society and politics in the past fifteen years. The papers in this special issue ... -
Social partnership, competitiveness and exit from fiscal crisis
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)The contribution of social partnership to Ireland?s economic boom remains the subject of controversy. This paper analyses at a theoretical level how a multi-period deal on wages and taxation of the type struck in the late ... -
Social partnership: from Lemass to Cowen
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)Dull and predictable though it may be, especially when contrasted with the ?heroic? era of labour and industrial relations during the first two decades of the twentieth century, the theme of social partnership is of ... -
The challenge of urban regeneration in deprived European neighbourhoods: a partnership approach
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)This paper sets out to critically examine the adoption of a partnership approach to urban regeneration at neighbourhood level across eight European cities. While all of the cities were committed to the idea of the socially ... -
The politics of empowerment: power, populism and partnership in rural Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)Since the early 1990s local area partnerships, sponsored either by the state or by the EC/EU together with the state, have proliferated in Ireland as elsewhere (Geddes, 2000). What inspired these area partnerships initially ... -
Towards Flexible Workplace Governance: employment rights, dispute resolution and social partnership in the Irish Republic
(Trinity COllege Dublin, 2005)Workplace conflict is part and parcel of economic life. If disputes at work are not properly addressed, they can get out of hand with potentially far reaching adverse consequences for employers and employees. A well-designed ... -
The transformation of the Irish labour market: 1980-2003
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2004)Traditionally characterised as a labour-surplus economy, Ireland was transformed during the 1990s. An impressive rate of employment growth led to a reduction in the unemployment rate from 15.7% to 4% between 1988 and ...