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...

We face multiple challenges in Ireland and globally from a range of issues not limited to inequality, economic development, public health and ecological breakdown. These issues require responses on the part of government at many levels. To ensure these responses are at the sufficient scale and...

Submission by NERI Co-director, Paul Mac Flynn regarding the report of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality. The NERI welcomes the report of the Citizen’s Assembly on Gender Equality and the recommendations that it has issued. Several of the recommendations encompass policy areas where the NERI...