In this blog, NERI Co-director Tom McDonnell discusses his NERI Report Series on the outlook for Ireland's economy. The recovery has been much faster and more robust than that of previous recessions. Thanks to a strongly countercyclical stance, household incomes largely held up, the economy’s...

This weeks blog is by NERI economist, Ciarán Nugent. He discusses the 'at-risk-of-poverty' indicator and the Living Wage. Poverty is a wide and abstract concept that does not lend itself easily to measurement. Finding ways to quantify phenomena which are not easy to simply ‘slap a number on’ is part...

The 10th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference took place in the Quinn Building, UCD on Tuesday 14th June in association with UCD and the Geary Institute. The conference included research papers on various aspects of the labour market and labour market policy. Professor John Geary, UCD presented...

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...