Inflation is the rate at which the cost of goods and services have been rising over a time period – such as, this year compared to last year, or this month compared to last month. Over the year to September of this year, the inflation rate was 8.8% higher than it was last year. In practical terms...

The Republic of Ireland do not publish a national estimate of the gender pay gap. This is somewhat paradoxical given that we now have legislation that requires all large employers to publish their own gender pay gap, yet there exists no publication at national level that estimates the overall gender...

In this blog by Professor John Geary, UCD and Dr. Maria Belizón, UCD they present on their paper based on novel findings from the UCD Working in Ireland Survey. This survey was led by Professor John Geary with the involvement of NERI researchers. The proportion of the workforce that is in union...

The NERI have the following events coming up over the next six months. The conference and seminars will be in the areas of working in Ireland, growth, tax, inflation, education and carbon lock-in. Our latest seminar took place in Dublin on 5 October 2022 - Budget 2023: NERI post budget analysis...