In this NERI blog, NERI Co-director Dr. Tom McDonnell summarises the main points of his latest NERI Report Series No. 25 - ' Full employment now, but enormous challenges ahead'. Employment growth has been very strong over the last year. We are at record employment, a record rate of female employment...

In this NERI Blog, NERI Co-director Tom McDonnell discusses the need for climate action and how to make it happen. Climate change means rising temperatures and sea levels, increased water stress, more extreme events, threats to food security, climate migration, and of course biodiversity loss. We...

In this latest NERI blog, NERI economist Paul Goldrick-Kelly summarises the main points of the latest NERI Long-Read, co-authored with SIPTU researcher Michael Taft ( @notesonthefront). They argue that Irish housing policy should be redirected from subsidising an inefficient system towards building...

Lisa Wilson, Senior economist at the Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI), says that issues of super-parity are one of the most talked about, but misrepresented areas of public finances in Northern Ireland. One of the most common jibes about Northern Ireland’s public finances is that it lives...

In this blog, NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell discusses the Commission on Taxation and Welfare's independent review of the tax and welfare system called 'Foundations for the Future'. The Commission on Taxation and Welfare (the Commission), of which I was a member, launched its independent review...