Video from Northern Ireland's Productivity Challenge: Exploring the issues

Past event
The NERI webinar 'Northern Ireland's Productivity Challenge: Exploring the issues' took place as a Zoom webinar on Wednesday 16th March 2022 at 14:30. Dr. David Jordan, Research Fellow, Queen's Management School, Queen's University Belfast Abstract: Productivity has been identified as central to...

Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System

27 Jan 2022
Dr Tom McDonnell
Comments from NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell to yesterday's Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight. Rationale for Indexation The principal rationale for price indexation is to offset the effect of cost of living increases on quality of life, poverty and deprivation. Benchmarking the various...

Some thoughts on a wealth tax

18 Jan 2022
Dr Tom McDonnell
In this weeks blog by NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell he discusses an Oxfam report in regards to a wealth tax. A recent report by Oxfam has gotten significant attention this week. The report points to rising inequality globally and the supernormal gains of billionaires during the pandemic...

The Irish Economy and the Environment

11 Jan 2022
Paul Goldrick-Kelly
In this week’s NERI blog, economist Paul Goldrick-Kelly summarises his recent report looking at the Irish economy’s relationship to nature. He finds that the Irish economy is often a poor performer, and that there is little evidence to date for a break in the historic relationship between...

Trends in the Northern Ireland Labour Market

04 Jan 2022
Paul Mac Flynn
In this blog, NERI Co-director Paul Mac Flynn looks at the Report Series no. 13 document that examines the Northern Ireland labour market in 2021. In terms of both pay and employment we examine the most recent data available along with the most up to date historical trends. Obviously the Covid-19...

Covid-19 restrictions &economic supports for Northern Ireland

22 Dec 2021
Dr Lisa Wilson
Health Minister Robin Swann has said that newly introduced restrictions do not go as far as he would otherwise like because there is no economic supports such as furlough available at the NI Executives disposal. This blog explains the reasons behind that. Most of 2021 was dedicated to the constant...
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