A United Ireland. Opening up the discussion.

[clonadmad]

We're not all binmen up here you know 

Regardless of what ye are

"productivity per worker is about 40 per cent higher in the Republic relative to the North"

Would the productivity of lets say someone working in an Intel type company in the North be 40% less than same worker in Kildare?

How much harder do the binmen work in the south?

for the love of Jesus

Its not a question of how hard lads work

that isnt how productivity is measured

I spend all day braking rocks with a lump hammer in a quarry in Leitrim

You are a Data Analyst with Google in Silicon Docks

Which of us has the higher productivity ?

[Milltown Row2]

Why the awful low productivity in the 6?
Why does a Monaghan worker produce a lot more than an Arnagh or Tyrone one?
Or is it down to exceptionally high productivity in the East and South East?

It's a more advanced economy versus a less advanced economy. That makes me think of Carson.
Because 100 years ago it was the other way around,

100?

[clonadmad]

Unionists

"The NHS is so much better than the Health Service in the South"

Paul Givan DUP

"The UK government should be embarrassed that the Republic of Ireland is investing in Northern Ireland nursing training capacity, because that should be a United Kingdom priority."

[RedHand88]

Unionists

"The NHS is so much better than the Health Service in the South"

Paul Givan DUP

"The UK government should be embarrassed that the Republic of Ireland is investing in Northern Ireland nursing training capacity, because that should be a United Kingdom priority."

And yet life expectancy is 2 years longer in the south.

Go figure.

[imtommygunn]

He's a complete muppet who has some neck on him talking about other people who should be embarassed.

[Rossfan]

We're not all binmen up here you know 

Regardless of what ye are

"productivity per worker is about 40 per cent higher in the Republic relative to the North"

Would the productivity of lets say someone working in an Intel type company in the North be 40% less than same worker in Kildare?

How much harder do the binmen work in the south?

for the love of Jesus

Its not a question of how hard lads work

that isnt how productivity is measured

I spend all day braking rocks with a lump hammer in a quarry in Leitrim

You are a Data Analyst with Google in Silicon Docks

Which of us has the higher productivity ?

But why can't the Fermanagh rock breaker do as much as the Laythrum one?
Do 6Cis folk spend more time whinging or is it all those godawful parades?

[seafoid]

Why the awful low productivity in the 6?
Why does a Monaghan worker produce a lot more than an Arnagh or Tyrone one?
Or is it down to exceptionally high productivity in the East and South East?

It's a more advanced economy versus a less advanced economy. That makes me think of Carson.
Because 100 years ago it was the other way around,

100?

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/03/04/unionists-prefer-grim-past-to-future-and-flags-to-good-fortune/
By 1911, Belfast was the biggest city in Ireland with a population of 386,947, bigger than a declining Dublin at 304,802. At the outbreak of the first World War, two-thirds of the industrial output of the entire island of Ireland came from the six counties that would go on to become Northern Ireland. The northeast was by far the richest part of the island.


Unionists used to look down on the Free State because it was poorer than the North

[weareros]

On the productivity differences, there is a full report on this which can be read here.

https://www.esri.ie/system/files/publications/RS152.pdf

Mind you, I only got as far as here:

More formally, we examine the determinants of productivity using a panel
estimation framework and the general relationship is described in Equation 1 for
each region:

𝑦𝑦𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 = 𝛽𝛽0 + 𝛽𝛽𝑗𝑗𝑋𝑋𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 + 𝛼𝛼𝑖𝑖 + 𝜀𝜀𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 (1)

where 𝑦𝑦𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 is the dependent variable (gross value added per worker) observed for
each sector i in time t, 𝛽𝛽0 is a constant term, 𝑋𝑋𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 represents a number of j
independent variables with 𝛽𝛽𝑗𝑗 the associated coefficients, 𝛼𝛼𝑖𝑖 is the unobserved
time-invariant sector effect and 𝜀𝜀𝑖𝑖𝑖𝑖 the error term. In terms of the specific panel
modeling approach adopted, we opt for a fixed effect estimator, following the
results of a Hausman test, that allows us to model the determinants of productivity
while controlling for time invariant country-level fixed effects and identify causal
relationships.

[Milltown Row2]

Why the awful low productivity in the 6?
Why does a Monaghan worker produce a lot more than an Arnagh or Tyrone one?
Or is it down to exceptionally high productivity in the East and South East?

It's a more advanced economy versus a less advanced economy. That makes me think of Carson.
Because 100 years ago it was the other way around,

100?

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/03/04/unionists-prefer-grim-past-to-future-and-flags-to-good-fortune/
By 1911, Belfast was the biggest city in Ireland with a population of 386,947, bigger than a declining Dublin at 304,802. At the outbreak of the first World War, two-thirds of the industrial output of the entire island of Ireland came from the six counties that would go on to become Northern Ireland. The northeast was by far the richest part of the island.


Unionists used to look down on the Free State because it was poorer than the North

Did the South have better infrastructure, cost of living and health care in the 70's?

[Jell 0 Biafra]

Unionists

"The NHS is so much better than the Health Service in the South"

Paul Givan DUP

"The UK government should be embarrassed that the Republic of Ireland is investing in Northern Ireland nursing training capacity, because that should be a United Kingdom priority."

And yet life expectancy is 2 years longer in the south.

Go figure.

Longer wait time for everything down here.

[imtommygunn]

Are you sure? Waiting lists in the north are bad. It even takes hours to get into a&e from an ambulance.

[general_lee]

Are you sure? Waiting lists in the north are bad. It even takes hours to get into a&e from an ambulance.

The NHS in the north is a f**king joke.

[armaghniac]

Longer wait time for everything down here.

Like many people, you are living in the past, when health and roads and suchlike were better in the occupied territories.

[imtommygunn]

The roads aren't that bad up here. The NHS on the other hand is completely f**ked.

[andoireabu]

I'm assuming he meant since waiting times are longer for everything in the Republic it also means you have to wait longer to die, hence the longer life expectancy.