Higher Education is central to Ireland’s future social and economic success. Growth in student numbers together with funding shortfalls have placed acute pressure on the system. It is clear that the current funding arrangement is not sustainable or equitable for households or Government. Further cut...

This edition of the NERI’s Quarterly Economic Observer (QEO) outlines our latest expectations for the economic outlook in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (Section 3). It also presents an analysis of earnings in Northern Ireland and in particular how low pay affects people by their...

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)...

Sustained and growing societal income and wage divides, combined with evidence of a polarising labour market, have brought greater attention to the concept of a living wage. Although missing from the socio-economic discourse for much of the twentieth century, it has enjoyed a renaissance in recent...