The 9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference took place on Tuesday 6th July, 2021 from 09:20 - 15:40 as a Zoom webinar. The webinar included research papers on various aspects of the labour market and labour market policy. Please find Programme for the Labour Market Conference webinar here. The presentations are all linked below.
Plenary
• The use of real time data to enhance the Earnings and Labour Costs release - was presented by Ms Louise Egan, Statistician, Labour Market and Earnings, CSO
• Use of Revenue data for Structure of Earnings Statistics - was presented by Mr Morgan O'Donnell, Statistician, Labour Market and Earnings, CSO
• Development of an Employment Series - was presented by Mr John Mullane, Statistician, Labour Market and Earnings, CSO
Inequality and Earnings
Session 1A
Mr Ciarán Nugent, Economist, NERI
Hourly Earnings Inequality in high-income EU countries and the UK- evidence from the Structure of Earnings Survey
Dr Barra Roantree, ESRI
(Joint paper with Dr Paul Redmond, ESRI)
Earnings growth and inequality in Ireland: 1987-2017
Prof Frank Walsh, School of Economics, University College Dublin
Non-Compliance with the National Minimum Wage
Building a sustainable economy
Session 1B
Ms Sinead Mercier, Lecturer and PhD Researcher at the UCD Sutherland School of Law & Lecturer in Applied Social Studies, Maynooth University
Ireland's Energy System: The Historical Case for Hope in Climate Action
Mr Paul MacFlynn, Co-director, NERI
Covid-19 and the future of social security
Mr Paul Goldrick-Kelly, Economist, NERI
Carbon Lock-in
In job precarity
Session 2A
Dr Robert Sweeney, Senior Economic & Policy Analyst, TASC
Job Quality in the Irish construction sector
Dr Michelle O’Sullivan & Dr Juliet MacMahon, Department of Work & Employment Studies, University of Limerick (Joint paper)
Wage theft & the legal enforcement of migrant workers' rights: a case study of Portuguese construction workers in Ireland
Dr Lauren Bari, Adjunct Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Cork University Business School, University College Cork
Trends in solo or freelance self-employment 2003-2019
Dr Alicja Bobek, Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
(Joint paper with Dr Sinéad Pembroke, UCD & Prof James Wickham, UCD)
Routes to precariousness: the expansion of fixed-term contracts in the Irish Higher Education and Early Childcare Education
The pandemic and the labour market
Session 2B
Mr Luke McGrath, Economist, Western Development Commission
The Regional Economic Impact of COVID 19: The Western Region and Atlantic Economic Corridor
Mr Kevin Threadgold, Economist, Department of Finance & IGEES
Ireland’s Unemployment Rate and COVID-19 Disruption
Ms Colette Bennett, Economist & Social Analyst, Social Justice Ireland
A Post-Pandemic Unemployment - An Analysis of Estimated Additional Unemployment post Covid-19
Dr Lisa Wilson, Senior Economist, NERI
The Future of Social Welfare and Material living standards: Who's responsibility?
Labour markets and Ageing
Session 3A
Dr Catherine Elliott-O’Dare, Postdoctoral Researcher, UCD
(Joint Paper with Dr Micheál Collins, UCD)
Researching Attitudes to Extended Working Lives among workers aged 50 years plus
Prof James Stewart, Adjunct Associate Professor, Trinity College & Dr Bridget McNally, Maynooth University (Joint paper)
The Covid Pandemic and Pension Provision
Dr Ivan Privalko, Social Research Fellow, ESRI
(Joint paper with Helen Russell, ESRI & Bertrand Maître, ESRI)
Early exit from work in Ireland: An analysis of LFS Data
Evaluating policy and macro-economic issues
Session 3B
Mr Adrian Hurley, Economist, Department of Public Expenditure & Reform and IGEES
An analysis of the distribution of enterprise supports
Mr Eoin Corrigan, UCD
A Decomposition Approach to Exploring the Decline of Homeownership in Ireland
Mr Niall O’Donnellan, Independent Strategy Advisor
Comparison of Ireland's Absolute Price Levels to EU Average (using Eurostat data)
Alternatives at work and in public provision
Session 4A
Mr Michael Taft, Economic Researcher, SIPTU
The Good Company
Dr Tom McDonnell, Co-director, NERI
Universal Basic Services - Debating UBS & Policy Alternatives
Dr Cian McMahon, Postdoctoral Researcher, St. Mary’s University Halifax, Nova Scotia
(Joint paper with Prof Sonja Novkovic, St. Mary’s University Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Humanistic governance in worker cooperatives: unlocking collective capacities
Mr Kevin P. O’Kelly, DIRECT 2 Project External Expert
EU Study of Direct Employee Participation. DIRECT 2 - Employees Involvement in Digitalisation
Precarity and exclusion
Session 4B
Prof James Wickham, Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College
(Joint paper with Dr Sinéad Pembroke, UCD & Dr Alicja Bobek, UCD)
Precarious work and access to healthcare in Ireland
Mr Michael O’Brien, Fisheries Campaign Lead – Ireland, International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF)
Five years on a review of the Atypical Work Permit Scheme for Non-EEA fishers working on Irish flagged vessels
Mr Daniel Hoey, Research Co-ordinator, Focus Ireland
Meaningful Employment Barriers and Aspirations for Mothers on Low Incomes