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