Tag Archives: agency assisted

Regional Sectoral Profiles: The Complete Collection

Posted on September 16, 2019 by WDC Insights

A year ago we began publishing a series of ‘Regional Sectoral Profiles’ of economic sectors in the Western Region.  Now, 12 months and 12 reports later, the series is complete!  As publication has been spread over a year, I thought … Continue reading →

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Financial & ICT Services in the Western Region

Posted on June 25, 2019 by WDC Insights

The WDC has just published the latest in its series of Regional Sectoral Profiles analysing employment and enterprise data for economic sectors in the Western Region. It examines the Financial & ICT Services sector which covers two sub-sectors: ‘Financial & … Continue reading →

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Administrative, Entertainment & Other Services rely on local demand from businesses & consumers, but potential to expand international activity

Posted on May 28, 2019 by WDC Insights

The Western Development Commission (WDC) has just published the latest in its series of Regional Sectoral Profiles which analyse employment and enterprise data for economic sectors in the Western Region.  This report examines the Administrative, Entertainment & Other Services sector, … Continue reading →

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Industry’s role in total ‘agency assisted’ jobs declining nationally but remains highly stable in Western Region

Posted on March 21, 2019 by WDC Insights

In a recent post I outlined some of the main findings from our analysis of Census employment data on the Industry sector in the Western Region.   Our recent report ‘Industry in the Western Region: Regional Sectoral Profile’ also examined agency … Continue reading →

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How important is Industry as a regional employer?

Posted on February 27, 2019 by WDC Insights

We’ve just published the fourth of our ‘Regional Sectoral Profiles’ analysing employment and enterprise data on specific economic sectors. The latest report examines Industry which is the Western Region’s largest employment sector, with 45,754 working in it.  Industry includes mining, … Continue reading →

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Regional Agency-Assisted Jobs 2017

Posted on September 27, 2018 by WDC Insights

In August the Department of Business, Enterprise & Innovation published the Annual Employment Survey (AES) for 2017.  This provides an analysis of employment in Industrial and Services companies under the remit of IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland and Údarás na Gaeltachta.  … Continue reading →

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The changing face of export sector jobs

Posted on February 8, 2016 by WDC Insights

The nature of Ireland’s exporting sector – and jobs in that sector – has been changing over the past decade (or more), with an ever expanding role for international services. The shift towards a greater share of service jobs is … Continue reading →

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Job creation in 2015 – EI and IDA end-of-year statements

Posted on January 11, 2016 by WDC Insights

Both Enterprise Ireland (the state agency charged with supporting exporting indigenous enterprises) and the IDA (the state agency responsible for supporting Foreign Direct Investment) issued very upbeat end-of-year statements this week. So, how did the region’s fare? Enterprise Ireland In … Continue reading →

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WDC Insights- A Christmas Quiz

Posted on December 21, 2015 by WDC Insights

We hope you have been following and reading the WDC Insights blog in the last year. Take our Christmas Quiz (9 questions) and see how well you score on regional development and Western Region issues. The answers are below with … Continue reading →

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Worrying trend in the North West’s assisted jobs performance

Posted on July 8, 2015 by WDC Insights

The Annual Employment Survey for 2014 (PDF 0.25 Mb) (formerly the Forfás Annual Employment Survey) was published a few weeks ago by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. This data counts agency assisted employment (jobs in companies which have … Continue reading →

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