In this blog, NERI Co-director Paul Mac Flynn discusses his NERI Report Series on the Digital and Tech Sector in Ireland. Facebook, Google, and Twitter are just some of the most famous multinational companies that make up the ever growing digital sector in Ireland. Looking at the performance of the...

This blog on 'what effect has the protocol had on Northern Ireland's ecomomy?' is by NERI Co-director, Paul Mac Flynn. You would be forgiven for thinking the Northern Ireland Protocol had been around for an awful lot longer than it has. One question I have been asked many times over these past 2 and...

This weeks blog is by Ciarán Nugent, NERI economist. Although the country still had significant restrictions for the first three weeks of January, this is the most ‘normal’ quarter since the final quarter of 2019, though some sectors were still under various restrictions for the first three weeks in...

In this guest blog, Dr Jonathan Arlow asks whether the current Work Placement Experience Programme represents a revamped Jobs Bridge scheme. Concerningly, Dr. Arlow argues that - despite some improvements - the new programme has repeated many of the former scheme's mistakes. The JobBridge internship...

This weeks blog is an article by NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell from the Irish Examiner on Monday 18th April, 2022. Cost of living pressures are creating almost daily demands for wage increases and other measures to relieve the burden on households. So what happened during the last period of...

In this week’s blog, Dr David Jordan, Research Fellow, Queen's Management School, Queen's University Belfast discusses the reasons for low productivity in Northern Ireland, based on his Green Paper co-written with Professor John Turner for the Productivity Institute. Over the past decade, the UK’s...