Recap on the NERI Labour Market Conference

07 May 2015
Daragh McCarthy
The third annual NERI labour market conference was held on 1 May in Riddel Hall, Queen's University Belfast. The event was held in conjunction with the Queen's Management School and featured presentations on a wide range of areas. Details on the topics covered, including links to the slides, are...

Almost 100,000 children live in families dependent on FIS

06 May 2015
Micheál Collins
The current focus on low pay and precarious work practices has set the scene for the work of the recently formed Low Pay Commission in the Republic of Ireland. One aspect of their work will be to look at the number of individuals trapped in low pay, many of whom are dependent on the social...

Monday Blog: Spring is in the air

03 May 2015
Tom Healy
The late Robin Williams once declared that spring is nature’s way of saying ‘let’s party’. The arrival of the ‘Spring Economic Statement’ last week had a seasonal dimension to it: a heightened expectation in advance, a very predictable outcome, a dash of hope and sunshine but some lingering chills...

A Profile of those on the Minimum Wage

01 May 2015
infobo
A Minimum Wage of €5.58 per hour (IR£4.40) was introduced for experienced adult workers in Ireland under the National Minimum Wage Act 2000. Since then the rate has changed on a number of occasions before reaching €8.65 in July 2007. In February 2011 the rate was reduced to €7.65 and subsequently...

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...
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