The Irish Economy : From Lame Duck to Celtic Tiger

Ireland’s exceptionally deep economic and fiscal crisis had an immediate and profound impact on employment and household incomes. The percentage of children below a 2008 relative income threshold increased in line with prices, rose from 18 per cent to 28 per cent, and by 2012 32 per cent of children were in households reporting severe material deprivation. The impact of the recession was significantly buffered by the social security system providing an income floor for those who lost their jobs, despite cuts in some social transfers, and the redistributive impact of the tax and transfer system increased markedly. Overall the Irish welfare state proved reasonably robust in responding to the crisis, bringing about rapid fiscal adjustment, although public expenditure cuts on key services, high levels of debt, failure to generate adequate affordable housing, and the scarring effects of unemployment mean it will have a lasting impact on families.

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Framing the Issue

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2547 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 721-721

Author(s):

Brian Lindberg

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Elder Abuse ◽

The Past ◽

Lame Duck ◽

Legislative Activities ◽

Successes And Failures

Abstract GSA's Public Policy Advisor will lead a discussion of legislative activities related to elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation during the past year. The panel will examine successes and failures and what may still be possible in the lame duck session and the next Congress.

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Review article: Reclaiming the rebellion: 1798 in 1998

Irish Historical Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021121400014231 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 31 (123) ◽

pp. 395-410

Author(s):

Ian McBride

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Rural Communities ◽

Review Article ◽

Physical Force ◽

Celtic Tiger ◽

Men And Women ◽

International Dimension ◽

Good Friday ◽

The North ◽

The Many

Few Irish men and women can have escaped the mighty wave of anniversary fever which broke over the island in the spring of 1998. As if atoning for the failed rebellion itself, the bicentenary of 1798 was neither ill-coordinated nor localised, but a genuinely national phenomenon produced by years of planning and organisation. Emissaries were dispatched from Dublin and Belfast to remote rural communities, and the resonant names of Bartlett, Whelan, Keogh and Graham were heard throughout the land; indeed, the commemoration possessed an international dimension which stretched to Boston, New York, Toronto, Liverpool, London and Glasgow. In bicentenary Wexford — complete with ’98 Heritage Trail and ’98 Village — the values of democracy and pluralism were triumphantly proclaimed. When the time came, the north did not hesitate, but participated enthusiastically. Even the French arrived on cue, this time on bicycle. Just as the 1898 centenary, which contributed to the revitalisation of physical-force nationalism, has now become an established subject in its own right, future historians will surely scrutinise this mother of all anniversaries for evidence concerning the national pulse in the era of the Celtic Tiger and the Good Friday Agreement. In the meantime a survey of some of the many essay collections and monographs published during the bicentenary will permit us to hazard a few generalisations about the current direction of what might now be termed ‘Ninety-Eight Studies’.

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On not watching Oprah in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland

Celebrity Studies ◽

10.1080/19392397.2012.644727 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 112-115

Author(s):

Diane Negra

Keyword(s):

Celtic Tiger

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Michelle Smith: An Irish Language Hero for Celtic Tiger Ireland?

Sport in History ◽

10.1080/17460260500186785 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 237-264

Author(s):

Brian Ó Conchubhair

Keyword(s):

Celtic Tiger ◽

Irish Language

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Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women’s Writing

10.4324/9781003029243 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Women's Writing ◽

Celtic Tiger ◽

Women’S Writing

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Fleeing a Lame Duck: Policy Uncertainty and Manufacturing Investment in US States

American Economic Journal Economic Policy ◽

10.1257/pol.20160365 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 135-152 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nathan Falk ◽

Cameron A. Shelton

Keyword(s):

Policy Uncertainty ◽

Specific Measure ◽

Us States ◽

Partisan Polarization ◽

State Uncertainty ◽

Lame Duck

It is found that electorally induced policy uncertainty decreases manufacturing investment in US states. In a state with average partisan polarization, the elasticity of election-year investment to a specific measure of policy uncertainty is −0.027. When the incumbent governor is term limited, there is greater uncertainty over the outcome, providing an instrument to demonstrate this effect is causal, not simply coincidental. Moreover, manufacturing investment does not rebound following the election. Rather, own-state uncertainty is associated with a large and significant coincident rise in neighboring states’ investment. These findings suggest that policy uncertainty at the subnational level drives investment to alternate sites. (JEL D25, D72, E22, G31, L60, R11)

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