Tag Archives: counties

The Construction Sector in the Western Region

Posted on August 22, 2019 by WDC Insights

The Western Development Commission (WDC) has published the latest in its ‘Regional Sectoral Profiles’ series which analyses the most recent employment and enterprise data for the Western Region on specific economic sectors and identifies key policy issues.[1] This report examines … Continue reading →

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Professional Services in the Western Region

Posted on July 31, 2019 by WDC Insights

The Western Development Commission (WDC) has just published the latest in its ‘Regional Sectoral Profiles’ series which analyses the most recent employment and enterprise data for the Western Region on specific economic sectors and identifies key policy issues.[1] This report … Continue reading →

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The Public Administration & Defence Sector in the Western Region

Posted on July 17, 2019 by WDC Insights

The Western Development Commission (WDC) has just published the 9th in its Regional Sectoral Profile series which analyse employment in different economic sectors in the Western Region. And this one is of particular interest to us, as it’s the sector … 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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Smaller Labour Catchments across the Western Region

Posted on May 22, 2019 by WDC Insights

Travel to Work Areas and Labour Catchments Analysis of travel to work data can be used to identify the geographic catchment from which a town draws its workforce, otherwise known as its labour catchment. Measurement of labour markets based on … Continue reading →

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1 in 4 working in Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing in Ireland live in Western Region – region’s highest share across all sectors

Posted on April 30, 2019 by WDC Insights

The WDC has just published the sixth of its ‘Regional Sectoral Profiles’ analysing employment data for the Western Region on different economic sectors.  The latest looks at Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing and two publications are available: WDC Insights: Agriculture, Forestry … Continue reading →

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Strong recent growth in overseas & domestic tourism in the Western Region, but considerable variation across counties

Posted on April 17, 2019 by WDC Insights

Given that it’s mid-term break and the summer season is fast approaching, this is a good time to look at the role and importance of the tourism sector in the economy of the Western Region. Because of its importance as … Continue reading →

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Changes and Trends in Disposable Incomes in Western Region Counties

Posted on April 12, 2019 by WDC Insights

The CSO has recently published data on Household Disposable Incomes at county level as part of the ‘County Incomes and Regional GDP 2016’ release.  This release contains useful trend data on incomes for counties as well as information about the … 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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Understanding Changes in the Components of County Incomes

Posted on July 11, 2018 by WDC Insights

While my previous post on county incomes (based on the CSO’s publications County Incomes and Regional GDP, 2015) considered the changes in Disposable Income over time, in this post I look at the components of Disposable Income, some of the … Continue reading →

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