Ciarán Nugent

Ciarán Nugent is an Economist at the Nevin Economic Research Institute and is based in the Dublin office. He is currently pursuing a doctorate with the Department of Sociology in Maynooth with assistance from the Irish Research Council through the Employment-based programme. He lectures part-time in the Department of Applied Social Studies in Maynooth in Political Economy and the Welfare State and he sits on the Living Wage Technical Group. He also sits on the Board of Directors of GEMS NI.

His research interests include returns to education, overqualification, social mobility, income distribution, wages, precarious work, the cost of living and intergenerational inequality. He graduated with an MA in Economics and BA in International Politics from NUI Maynooth.

Contact: [email protected] or 00353 1 889 77 22.

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Labour market outcomes of third level graduates in high-income EU members. Is Father’s education important?

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In report series 34, NERI Economist Ciarán Nugent shows that in the process of third level education expansion in Ireland over the past generation, the share of graduates in high-end employment has fallen significantly and especially for graduates from households with lower levels of formal...

The Expansion of Third level education and Intergenerational Transmission of educational attainment in high-income EU countries

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In report series 33, NERI Economist Ciarán Nugent shows that as Ireland has gone from one of the countries with the lowest share of third level education in the sample to the highest, it did so by closing the third level education gap between those with parents with high levels of formal education...

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