6th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference in association with NUI Galway, Whitaker Institute - 22nd May, 2018

Presentations from the 6th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference in association with NUI Galway, Whitaker Institute - 22nd May, 2018.

Presentation from the Central Statistics Office

• Michael Connolly, Eoin Flaherty, and Yvonne Hayden, CSO National Accounts Division
  • Productivity in Ireland

Productivity and Skills

Session 1A, Chair: Dr Aidan Kane, NUI Galway

• Luke Rehill, Department of Finance
  • Patterns of firm-level productivity in Ireland
• Dr Adele Whelan, ESRI
  • Educational attainment and skill utilisation in the Irish labour market: An EU comparison
• Paul Mac Flynn, NERI
  • A low skills equilibrium in Northern Ireland
• Sorcha Foster, Oxford University
  • The risk of automation of work in Ireland – both sides of the borde

Labour Market Transitions and Activation

Session 1B, Chair:  Ciarán Nugent, NERI

• Dr Helen Johnston, NESC
  • Labour market transitions: barriers and enablers
• Dr Paul Redmond, ESRI
  • An examination of labour market transitions of minimum wage workers in Ireland
• Ms Lucy Pyne, Pobal
  • Evidence from the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP)
• Dr Nuala Whelan, Maynooth University & Ballymun Job Club
  • The role of labour market activation in building a healthy workforce: Enhancing well-being for the long-term unemployed through positive psychological interventions

Equality and the Labour Market: Gender and Age Dimensions

Session 1C, Chair:  Dr Shivaun Quinlivan, NUI Galway

• Dr Lisa Wilson, NERI
  • The gendered nature of job quality and job insecurity
• Dr Karina Doorley, ESRI
  • Taxation, labour force participation and gender equality in Ireland
• Dr Mengyang Zhang and Dr Brídín Carroll, Healthy and Positive Ageing Initiative, Department of Health
  • Age-friendly workplaces: a positive ageing perspective
• Dr Claire Keane, ESRI and Dr Caitriona Logue, University of Edinburgh
  • The impact of free childcare policy on childcare and maternal supply decisions: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Pensions and Income Volatility

Session 2A, Chair:  Dr Áine Ní Léime, NUI Galway

• Dr Michéal Collins, UCD and Dr Michelle Maher, Maynooth University
  • Auto enrolment: into what, for whom and how much?
• Dr James Stewart, Trinity College Dublin
  • The roadmap for pensions reform; actuarial and other issues
• Dr Jason Loughrey, Teagasc
  • Household income volatility in Ireland

Precariousness and Quality of Work

Session 2B, Chair:  Dr Tom McDonnell, NERI

• Ciarán Nugent, NERI
  • A time-series analysis of precarious work in Ireland: 2004-2016
• Dr Sinéad Pembroke, TASC
  • Living with uncertainty: The social implications of precarious work
• Gail Irvine, Carnegie UK Trust
  • Fulfilling work in Ireland
• Ivan Privalko, Dublin City Council
  • What do Workers get from Mobility?

Trade Unions and Labour-Capital Relations

Session 2C, Chair:  Dr John Cunningham, NUI Galway

• Dr Frank Walsh, UCD
  • Assessing competing explanations for the decline in trade union density in Ireland
• Dr Tom Turner, University of Limerick
  • Tipping the scales for labour in Ireland? Collective bargaining and the industrial relations amendment) act 2015
• Michael Taft, SIPTU
  • A new enterprise model: The long march through the market economy

Economic Inactivity

Session 3A, Chair:  Dr Lisa Wilson, NERI

• Stephen Byrne, Central Bank of Ireland
  • A non-employment index for Ireland
• Ms Anna Ludwinek, Eurofound
  • The hidden potential of Europe’s economically inactive
• Anne Devlin, Queens University Belfast
  • Why is work-limiting disability in Northern Ireland so high?

Employment and Participation Trends

Session 3B, Chair:  Dr Eithne Murphy, NUI Galway

• Dr Tom McDonnell, NERI
  • Medium-term trends in the Irish labour market and possibilities for reform
• Eamon Murphy, Social Justice Ireland
  • An overview of labour market participation in Ireland over the last two decades
• Dr Donald Storrie, Eurofound
  • Recent and possible future developments of non-standard employment

Collective Bargaining and Labour Market Institutions

Session 3C, Chair:  Dr Alan Ahearne, NUI Galway

• Vincenzo MacCarrone, UCD
  • Explaining the trajectory of collective bargaining in Ireland: 2000-2017
• Dr Anthony Leddin, University of Limerick and Dr Paul Egan, University of St Andrews, Scotland
  • Ireland’s national wage agreements & macroeconomic performance: 1988 - 2008
• Dr Daniel Higgins, NUI Galway
  • Mainstream economics as secular authoritarianism