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9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2021 - Session 4B - Precarity and exclusion

Find the video from Session 4B, Precarity and exclusion at the 9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2021 webinar held on 6th July, 2021 as a Zoom webinar. Mr Ciarán Nugent, NERI economist chaired...

Hourly Earnings Inequality in high-income EU countries and the UK

24 Jun 2021

Ciarán Nugent

The NERI's latest Report Series by NERI economist, Ciarán Nugent analyses four rounds of the survey (2006-2018) and compares the hourly earnings structure in Ireland relative to high-income EU countries (real GDP per capita above €25,000), as well as the UK. Luxembourg is excluded. The report relies...

Wages in Ireland are more unequally distributed than in any other high-income EU country

24 Jun 2021

Ciarán Nugent

This weeks blog is by the NERI economist Ciarán Nugent. The evidence suggests that inequality in Irish wages between the bottom (the 10th percentile) and the top (the 90th percentile) is higher than in any other high-income European country by some margin. The worker at the 90th percentile earned...

NERI Webinar: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Investigating the Issues

The NERI webinar 'Low Pay and the Living Wage: Investigating the Issues' took place on Wednesday 23rd June, 2021 at 11:00. Fran Bennett, Honorary Researcher, Oxford University and member of the Policy...

NERI Discussion Series: Active Labour Market Policies and the Great Recession, Lessons for 2021

Dr Nuala Whelan and Dr Michael McGann of Maynooth University discuss their research on active labour market policies in the aftermath of the financial crisis and what a High-Road approach would look...

ISDS vs the environment

11 Jun 2021

Paul Goldrick-Kelly

In this week's blog, NERI Economist Paul Goldrick-Kelly raises questions about the compatibility between proposed trade agreements and environmental goals, particularly where they include so called Investor-state Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanisms. Recently, Free Trade Agreements and their...

No one should use the Covid budget deficit to invent a crisis

26 May 2021

Paul Mac Flynn

This weeks NERI blog by Co-directors, Paul Mac Flynn and Dr Tom McDonnell is an article that they wrote for the Irish Examiner on 24 May 2021. Employment and strong wages, not tax hikes, are the key to restoring the public finances. The financial crash of 2008 and the subsequent recession were...

NERI Webinar: Employment composition in small & large firms in Ireland: skills & quality of employment

The NERI webinar 'Employment composition in small & large firms in Ireland: skills & quality of employment' took place on Wednesday 19th May, 2021 at 14:00. Cathal McDermott, IGEES & Department of...

Changing places: Shifts in employment over the lockdown

19 May 2021

Paul Mac Flynn

In this weeks blog, NERI Co-director Paul Mac Flynn examines the Accommodation & Food Sector and why this sector is struggling to get staff after lockdown. As the vaccine programme continues to roll out and the economy begins to open up again, there are some indications of significant shifts that...

Even through the narrow lens of income, the evidence that inequality has fallen in Ireland is mixed at best

10 May 2021

Ciarán Nugent

This weeks blog is by the NERI economist Ciarán Nugent. What this data suggests is that since 1980, the bottom half of the Irish adult income distribution lost 4 percentage points in the share of national income to the top 1 percent. The evidence that income inequality has improved in Ireland over...

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9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2021 - Session 4B - Precarity and exclusion

Hourly Earnings Inequality in high-income EU countries and the UK

Wages in Ireland are more unequally distributed than in any other high-income EU country

NERI Webinar: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Investigating the Issues

NERI Discussion Series: Active Labour Market Policies and the Great Recession, Lessons for 2021

ISDS vs the environment

No one should use the Covid budget deficit to invent a crisis

NERI Webinar: Employment composition in small & large firms in Ireland: skills & quality of employment

Changing places: Shifts in employment over the lockdown

Even through the narrow lens of income, the evidence that inequality has fallen in Ireland is mixed at best

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