Labour Market Transitions and Employment Trends
Session 1A, Chair: Dr Tom Healy, NERI
- Dr Aedín Doris, Professor Donal O’Neill, Dr Olive Sweetman, Maynooth University
- Does reducing unemployment benefits during a recession reduce unemployment? Evidence from a 50% cut in unemployment assistance
- Dr Gráinne Collins, National Disability Authority
- The effect on employment of having a disability
- Dr John Moriarty, Queen’s University Belfast
- Religion and educational attainment as interacting factors in the determination of occupational class in Northern Ireland
- Eamon Murphy, Social Justice Ireland
- An overview of regional employment trends
Precariousness, Working Conditions and Job Quality
Session 1B, Chair: Dr Mary Murphy, Maynooth University
- Dr Lisa Wilson, NERI
- Is any job better than no job? Assessing the quality of jobs in Northern Ireland
- Professor Duncan McVicar, Queen’s University Belfast
- Zero hours contracts in the UK labour market
- Dr Alicja Bobek, TASC
- Part-time work, full time commitment: employment in the Irish hospitality sector
- Dr Clíodhna Murphy, Maynooth University
- Vulnerability to labour exploitation: Migration law, employment law and the puzzle of effective regulation
Wages, Labour Costs and Affordability
Session 1C, Chair: Paul Mac Flynn, NERI
- Dr Tom McDonnell, NERI
- Internal devaluation policies and their impacts during the great recession
- Dr Micheál Collins, UCD
- Housing costs and the living wage
- Dr Thomas Turner and Dr Darragh Flannery, UL
- Assessing the wage gap between public and private sector employees in Ireland: Issues, evidence and challenges
Productivity, Human Capital and Educational Attainment
Session 2A, Chair: Dr Olive Sweetman, Maynooth University
- Paul MacFlynn, NERI
- Productivity in Northern Ireland
- Martina Nacheva, Department of Finance
- Human capital adjusted production function model
- Niamh Moran, Department of Health & Healthy and Positive Ageing Initiative
- Adult educational experience and lifelong learning: latent and manifest barriers to participation
- Dr Delma Byrne, Maynooth University
- Lone parents, higher education and activation
Precariousness and Low Pay
Session 2B, Chair: Dr Geoffrey Cook, Maynooth University
- Dr Sinéad Pembroke, TASC
- From cradle to old age, the precarious working conditions of early years’ education, third level and home care workers in Ireland
- Dr Joseph Moran, Waterford Institute of Technology
- One young man’s encounter with precarious employment: A story from the South-East of Ireland
- Dr Clíona Rooney, Maynooth University
- The lived experience of family Income Supplement (FIS) recipients
- Ciarán Nugent, NERI
- The prevalence of precarious work in Ireland from 2004 to 2015
Labour Market Participation and Activation
Session 2C, Chair: Dr Aedín Doris, Maynooth University
- Dr Mary Murphy, Maynooth University
- Irish public employment services restructuring
- Dr Anne-Marie McGauran, National Economic and Social Council
- Patriarchy by default in unemployment benefit payments: Evidence from a small-scale qualitative study
- Philip Finn, Maynooth University
- Strategies of negotiation and resistance in Ireland’s activation regime
- Chris Lowe, Attac Ireland
- Fit for work? Debunking dangerous disability statistics
Presentation from the Central Statistics Office
- Brian Ring, CSO Labour market and earnings division
- Recent releases, data developments, other statistical matters and future plans
Distribution and Labour Market Inequalities
Session 3A, Chair: Dr Tom McDonnell, NERI
- Dr Jason Loughrey, Teagasc
- Nowcasting the spatial distribution of household income inequality in Ireland
- Neil Rowland, Queen’s University Belfast
- The evolution of Catholic-Protestant labour market inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983-2014
- Dr Srinivas Raghavendra, NUI Galway
- Unpaid labour, distribution of income and macroeconomic regimes
Pensions and Demographic Change
Session 3B, Chair: Dr Delma Byrne, Maynooth University
- Dr Joe Larragy, Maynooth University
- Is 68 the new 65? Some critical questions regarding the raising of the state pension age in Ireland
- Dr Donal Mullins, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Public health sector pensions: An ever increasing burden on the HSE budget?
- Paul Goldrick-Kelly, NERI
- Fiscal implications of demographic change on public health spending: An update
Workplace Regimes
Session 3C, Chair: Dr Lisa Wilson, NERI
- Professor Seán Ó’Riain, Maynooth University and Amy Healy, Mary Immaculate College
- Workplace regimes and precarity in European labour markets
- Kevin O’Kelly, ETUI
- Board-level employee representation – Its impact and future
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