In today's blog, NERI economist Ciarán Nugent looks at the recent report published by the Central Statistics Office on the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) for 2019. The Central Statistics Office recently published a report and some preliminary results of the Survey on Income and Living...

In this week’s blog, NERI economic consultant, Dr Aoife Ní Lochlainn discusses the Sixth Carbon Budget and the contribution of Northern Ireland. This week sees the publication of the UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC) Sixth Carbon Budget under the Climate Change Act. The carbon budget will set...

While the term is overused - there can be no doubt that 2020 was an unprecedented and devastating year for the global economy. The crisis has brought radical policy innovations and shown the power of governments willing to act. Our view is that the crisis has highlighted flaws inherent in our social...

At the start of this month NISRA published its Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings for April 2020. This data offers us our annual opportunity to have a look at what has been happening in the economy over the year in terms of wages and of course, in the context of this year, it offers us the first...