12th Annual NERI Dónal Nevin Lecture
The 12th Annual NERI Dónal Nevin Lecture took place in the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, D02 HH58 on Thursday 5 December 2024 from 18:00 - 19:45. Professor Mary Murphy, Department...
Regional aspects of sectoral clustering & innovation development across the island of Ireland
The seminar titled 'Regional aspects of sectoral clustering & innovation development across the island of Ireland' was presented by Niall O'Donnellan, Senior Research Associate, Centre for Cross...
Good Jobs: What are they and How do we get more of them?
Good jobs are a cornerstone of the Department for Economy's Economic Vision. This paper tackles the policy challenge of creating more good jobs, and provides a detailed strategy of how to support, grow, and sustain quality jobs for more workers. This paper addresses the policy challenge of...
Low-Paid Workers: The Need for Continued Support and the Challenge of Making Work Pay
Today's published earnings data show that Northern Ireland has experienced a significant increase in employees earning below two-thirds the median. At the same time, the data shows a significant increase in the proportion earning below the real living wage. This decoupling of trends in the...
Do Cultural Capital and Social Capital Explain the Social Origin Pay Gap?
The seminar titled 'Do Cultural Capital and Social Capital Explain the Social Origin Pay Gap?' was presented by Michael Vallely, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ESRI. It took place on Thursday 24...
The Budget 2025: NERI Post Budget analysis seminar
The Budget 2025: NERI Post Budget analysis seminar took place in the ICTU offices, 31/32 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, D01 YR92 on Wednesday 9 October 2024 from 15:30 - 16:45. Please find the...
Economic Security - New Economic Model: Pillar 3
This Long-Read series no. 9 by NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell is concerned with economic security and inequality, as well as with income adequacy and well-being. Any model of economic development, if it is to be genuinely inclusive, must be predicated on sustainable progress in each of these...
Economic Security
In this NERI Blog and its associated Long-Read No. 9, NERI Co-director Dr. Tom McDonnell discusses economic security and inequality, as well as income adequacy and well-being. Read the latest NERI Long-Read here. A general election is fast approaching in the Republic of Ireland and the new Labour...
Where is the strategy? An uninspiring and questionable budget
In this blog, NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell gives his opinions on Budget 2025. Fiscally questionable Budget 2025 contained a range of spending increases and tax cuts totalling about €10.5 billion of which €2.2 billion was once-off in nature. Ostensibly the public finances are in great shape...
The cost of not investing in public services
In this blog, NERI Co-director Paul Mac Flynn discusses the findings of a report into the state of the NHS in England. Last week the new Labour government released the findings of a report into the state of the NHS in England. To say that the headlines were bleak would be something of an...