Employment Impacts and the New Minimum Wage Research

29 Apr 2015
infobo
The minimum wage was introduced in Ireland in 2000 and currently stands at €8.65 an hour. Legal national minimum wages now exist in most countries (including 21 European Union countries) and where national minimum wages do not exist there are invariably sectorally agreed minimum wages which operate...

Monday Blog: 'These truths we hold to be self-evident...'

25 Apr 2015
Tom Healy
‘These things we hold to be self-evident …. ‘ is a line taken from the 1776 USA Declaration of Independence. Given the emerging debate - such as it is – in the Republic of Ireland on matters to do with taxation, social spending and related areas it would seem that the following ten canonical...

NERI Seminar Dublin: The financial position of Irish households

Past event
This presentation introduces a novel dataset on households’ income, assets and debts in Ireland: the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). The HFCS is an invaluable resource for policy makers, allowing for household-level analysis of the composition of wealth and debt, leverage and the...

Still a high income country – despite the recession

23 Apr 2015
Micheál Collins
Indicator 4.1 from the NERI’s latest Quarterly Economics Facts (QEF) document shows that despite the elongated economic crisis, the Republic of Ireland’s income per capita remains high. The latest data, for 2013, show that Ireland’s average income of €35,600 is the sixth highest in the EU. The...

Monday Blog: Triangulating pay, taxes and the 'social wage'

18 Apr 2015
Tom Healy
[The following is an extract from a speech given recently at the Annual Delegate Conference of the Public Service Executive Union - PSEU] It is urgent that evidence is brought to bear on important political and social debates. It is also important that those issues and questions that are neglected...

NERI Seminar: Examining the Net Wealth of Irish Households

16 Apr 2015
Daragh McCarthy
The latest NERI seminar took place on Wednesday 22 April 2015. Dr Reamonn Lydon, Central Bank of Ireland, presented research based on a novel dataset on households’ income, assets and debts in Ireland: the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). The HFCS is an invaluable resource for policy...

NERI Seminar: A Future Worth Working For

09 Apr 2015
Daragh McCarthy
Yesterday's seminar given by the Director of the NERI, Tom Healy, focused on setting the parameters for a clear, long-term vision for the Irish economy to emerge. The seminar is based on a recent working paper that argues this vision must be based on concrete goals that can be observed, measured and...

Vision for the Irish economy

Past event
Director of the NERI, Tom Healy sets out the parameters for a clear, long-term vision for the Irish economy to emerge. The seminar is based on a recent working paper, "The Better is yet to Come." Over the course of the presentation, Dr Healy reviewed the key economic and social challenges facing the...
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