In this NERI long-read, Dr Tom McDonnell, NERI Co-director discusses the impact of trade unions and collective bargaining on economic outcomes such as employment, productivity and inequality. He takes a look at some of the conceptual linkages between collective bargaining and these economic outcomes...

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...