In this NERI Long Read Series, Paul Mac Flynn, NERI Co-director explore what the Covid-19 policy response should teach us about our approach to unemployment in the future. It has important lessons for how we will go about tackling the climate crisis.

The NERI's latest Report Series paper by NERI Co-director, Dr Tom McDonnell describes the economic fallout and the appropriate policy response after one year into the worst global pandemic the world has seen in a century. There has been unprecedented disruption to societies and economies alongside a...

This paper examines the effects of automation and the green transition on employment between the last crisis and the onset of the pandemic. While the most gloomy predictions of mass job losses due to these forces haven’t come to pass, workers within some sectors may face challenges. This study...

Ireland’s labour market has seen dramatic shifts in employment over the past two decades. In the years recent to 2019, it was observable through a number of key summary measures that the Irish labour market had been performing very strongly, with suggestions that a full recovery had been made by...

This Report provides an overview of the extent of the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland on an hourly, weekly and annual basis. It also covers how the gender pay gap varies by job and personal/household characteristics.

This Report provides an overview of the extent of the gender pay gap in the Republic of Ireland on an hourly, weekly and annual basis. It also covers how the gender pay gap varies by job and personal/household characteristics.