Working Poor are the largest group experiencing poverty

09 Oct 2012
Micheál Collins
One in every seven of the Irish population (15.8%) lives on an income which is less than the official poverty line. Given a population of approximately 4.58 million people this implies that almost 725,000 live at risk of poverty. In the latest edition of the NERI's Quarterly Economic Facts document...

Presentation to NWCI 08 Oct 12

External event contribution
Presentation 'Bearing the Brunt: Women and the Recession' - response to panel of speakers

Social Protection and Ireland Crisis

External event contribution
Given Ireland's current situation, there are real challenges for the current and future shape of our Social Protection model. This presentation, considers where things stand given the current crisis and briefly reviews the challenges that lie ahead in both the short-term and long-term. The paper was...

Quarterly Economic Facts - Autumn 2012

25 Sep 2012
infobo
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)...

Part-time working a problem for Northern Ireland

24 Sep 2012
Paul Mac Flynn
Recent data has indicated that the level of unemployment in Northern Ireland has surpassed that of the UK as a whole. This is worrying news, but it is also not a full picture of the labour market in Northern Ireland. The unemployment rate does not count those who are underemployed, those who are in...

Proportion that are long-term unemployed continues to increase

18 Sep 2012
Rory O'Farrell
While in the rest of Europe the share of unemployed who have been searching for work for over a year is stabilising, in Ireland it continues to increase. As total unemployment rates have increased across Europe the proportion of total unemployed who are long-term unemployed has increased especially...

Three-quarters of earners have incomes below €50,000

10 Sep 2012
Micheál Collins
Despite its relevance to various public policy issues, information on the levels and distribution of earnings in the Republic of Ireland is limited. Over the next year the NERI plans to address this deficit with research examining incomes and earnings in Ireland based on data from the CSO's Survey...

Article highlights income in Ireland

06 Sep 2012
Micheál Collins
An article in the current edition of the CPSU's Aontas Magazine by Dr Micheál Collins (NERI) highlights the most recent CSO data on income in Ireland. In particular, the article notes the CSO's findings on the distribution of disposable income - the money households have in their pocket to spend...
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