New major survey to highlight the consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the quality of work and worker well-being in Ireland. The Covid-19 Pandemic has led to profound changes in people’s working lives. While there has been considerable commentary and speculation as to the nature of these changes...

In this week’s blog, NERI economist Paul Goldrick-Kelly points out the dangerous path we are on globally ahead of COP26, and the need for a new approach which looks at things like luxury emissions. This Halloween marks the opening of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP26 in...

In this week's blog by NERI Co-director Dr. Tom McDonnell, he discusses the outcomes of Budget 2022. Budget 2022 was a place-holder budget. It clearly wasn’t a fire-fighting budget in the vein of Budget 2021, but nor was it a truly post-pandemic budget either. For example, the EWSS will be retained...

In this week's blog by NERI Co-director Dr. Tom McDonnell, he discusses Budget 2022. Next Tuesday’s budget will take place in a very different context to last year’s one. Last year’s firefighting budget was all about preserving the economy’s productive capacity by as much as possible against the...