Hours and Earnings in the Northern Ireland Labour Market

29 Jul 2014
Paul Mac Flynn
As noted in this blog last week, there has been a significant recovery in the labour market for both Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom. However it was also noted that the pace of recovery in the labour market has not so far been reflected in economic growth. While UK economic...

Examining Unemployment Traps in the Republic of Ireland

29 Jul 2014
Micheál Collins
As individuals transition from unemployment to employment they experience losses of welfare payments and entitlements, gains in earned gross income and they begin to pay income taxes and social insurance contributions on their earned income. To assess this impact it is possible to calculate a...

Pension Policy in Ireland: an Evaluation

17 Jul 2014
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PENSION POLICY IN IRELAND: AN EVALUATION – HOW WE MIGHT BETTER ACHIEVE ITS STATED AIMS Eamon Murphy* ABSTRACT This paper sets out to evaluate pension policy in Ireland. By ascertaining the system’s stated aims, it then appraises its performance in achieving them. The main purpose of the paper is to...

Productivity a danger for UK and NI

16 Jul 2014
Paul Mac Flynn
There were conflicting messages in the statistics released today on the Northern Ireland economy and labour market. On the labour market side, both measures of unemployment have fallen significantly for the three months from March to May of this year. The claimant count (literally a count of those...

Quarterly Economic Facts - Summer 2014

15 Jul 2014
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Recent years have seen a huge growth in the supply, range and timeliness of data from a variety of official agencies including the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), Eurostat, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...

Latest data on youth unemployment

15 Jul 2014
Daragh McCarthy
As shown in the latest Quarterly Economic Facts , the youth unemployment rate in Ireland over the opening five months of the year was just over 25 per cent, down from a recent high of 30.4 per cent in 2012. While this represents a considerable improvement, the proportion of young people unemployed...

Uncertainty and Economic Recovery

14 Jul 2014
Micheál Collins
Slowly, the Irish economy is recovering; very slowly! Over the weekend, I and other economists contributed to a journal.ie article ( see here) on the two-speed nature of the recovery. While the exchequers finances are improving (lower unemployment, higher employment, some increased spending...

How is the Economy Doing?

External event contribution
Presentation to the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Lunchtime Learning series on July 8th 2014.

Spending on health and the cost of providing universal care

05 Jul 2014
Daragh McCarthy
The recent release of OECD data external link on health care has highlighted the low level of expenditure on health in Ireland. As noted in the Irish Times external link, the state spent less on health than any other country in Western Europe during 2012. In this blog I attempt to put this stark...

NERI Programme of Work (2014-15)

01 Jul 2014
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p>This document provides an overview of the NERI's programme of work for the period begining March 2014 and ending September 2015. This document was agreed at the Institute's Annual General Meeting in March 2014.
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