Presentations from the 10th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference

The 10th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference was held in the Quinn Building, UCD on Tuesday 14th June, 2022 in association with UCD and the Geary Institute.  The conference included research papers on various aspects of the labour market and labour market policy.

The research papers are below:

Plenary 1

Professor John Geary, UCD (co-authored with Dr Maria Belizón, UCD) - Working at home and employee well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic.  First findings from the UCD Working in Ireland Survey, 2021

Gender and the Labour Market - Session 1A

Dr Lauren Bari, UCC - Parental pay gaps in Ireland: the diverging effects of children on the wages of men and women

Ms Dearbhla Quinn-Hemmings and Jamie McCarthy, Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth - (co-authored with Mr Ciarán Madden Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth) The prevalence and use of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) in discrimination and sexual harassment disputes

Policy evaluation and macro issues - Session 1B

Mr Niall O’Donnellan, Independent Strategy Advisor - Ireland’s Productivity Challenge – exploring Eurostat cross-country sector-size data for insight 

Mr John Reidy, IGEES & Department of Public Expenditure & Reform - An overview of the Irish Housing Market

Ms Nessa Ní Chasaide, Maynooth University - Ireland’s Corporate Tax Games

Assessing the impact of the Pandemic - Session 2A

Ms Aoife Doyle, IGEES & Department of Public Expenditure & Reform - (Joint paper with Department of Public Expenditure & Reform and the Department of Social Protection) - The Pandemic Unemployment Payment and the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme

Mr Patrick O'Brien, IGEES and Department of Finance (Joint paper with Dr Mike Fahy and Mr Matthew Allen-Coughlan, Department of Finance) - Pandemic Impact on Irish Labour Supply vs Demand

Mr Enda Keenan, Central Bank of Ireland - (Co-authored with Ms Laura Boyd, Mr Stephen Byrne and Ms Tara McIndoe-Calder, Central Bank) - Labour market recovery after a pandemic

Precarity and differential labour market experience - Session 2B

Ms Shauna Fitzsimons, UCD - Irish Labour Market for young women

Mr Ciarán Nugent, NERI - (Co-authored with Dr Patrick Gallagher, Waterford Institute of Technology & NERI contractor) - Temporary Employment, Low Paid Work and Job Security amongst Young Irish Workers

Dr Gerard Doyle, TU Dublin - A new epoch for worker co-operatives in Ireland – an outline of the factors required for their implementation and the opportunities to address precarious employment

Dr Maeve O’Sullivan, UCC - (Co-authored with Dr Nata Duvvury, NUI Galway, Dr Aileen Murphy, UCC and Dr Edel Walsh, UCC) - Covid-19 Job Losses: Short-term consequences for female labour force participation

Labour market segregation and effects of policy - Session 2C

Dr Julius Nyiawang, Maynooth University - (Co-authored with Dr Marian Crowley-Henry and Dr Jon Gruda, Maynooth University) - Exploring the role of macro-level forces on macro-level career orientations and outcomes

Dr Mary Farrell, Researcher - Occupational Segregation in the Chef Profession in Ireland contributes to the Chef Shortage in the Hospitality Sector

Dr Tara Bedi & Dr. Lukas Kuld, Trinity College Dublin and University of Limerick - Inform, monitor, advocate: Accountability of public works entitlements in rural India

Plenary 2

Mr Morgan O'Donnell and Mr Sam Scriven, CSO - Earnings and Labour Costs including the impact of the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme

Pandemic Experiences - Session 3A

Dr Laura Foley, UCD - How the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted Irish society: A focus on Healthcare, Social Care, and Labour Market 

Dr Caitriona Delaney, TU Dublin - (co-authored with Dr Alicja Bobek and Dr Sara Clavero, TU Dublin) - Women, Work, Emotional Labour and Wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond

Dr. Alicja Bobek, TU Dublin - (co-authored with Dr Caitriona Delaney and Dr Sara Clavero, TU Dublin) - Blurring boundaries of care work: the impact of COVID-19 on care work and women’s employment in Ireland.

Climate policy and Participation at work - Session 3B

Mr Paul Goldrick-Kelly, NERI - Carbon Lock-in

Mr Sean Fearon, Queen’s University Belfast - (Co-authored for the Department of the Economy in NI) - Mapping a Just Transition in Northern Ireland: Employment, Energy and the NI Climate Bill

Mr Kevin O'Kelly, DIRECT 2 Project - DIRECT 2 Project 

Post-pandemic futures - Session 3C

Dr Tom McDonnell and Mr Paul Mac Flynn NERI - Post Pandemic Economy

Dr Robert Sweeney, TASC - Fórsa report on the role of the state post-pandemic

Mr Michael Taft, SIPTU - Modelling a New Collective Bargaining Regime in the Republic of Ireland 

Mr Harry Williamson, IGEES and Department of Enterprise, Trade & Employment - An evaluation of the Impacts of Remote Working