Press Release: Living Wage Seminar

02 Mar 2020
Louisa O’Brien
Crowd
Press Release Living Wage Seminar The Living Wage Technical Group are hosting a seminar to discuss the context, strategies, options and challenges around achieving a Living Wage for workers in Ireland Title ‘ Strategies on Getting a Living Wage’ Date 4th March 2020 Time 10.00am – 12.30pm Venue Royal...

NERI Seminar Belfast: What would be the impact of the 4-day week on the economy?

Past event
Slides from the NERI Seminar Belfast "What would be the impact of the 4-day week on the economy?" which took place on 20th February in the INTO, 23-24 College Gardens, Belfast, BT9 6BS. Please find slides below from the NERI Seminar. The presentation was made by Aidan Harper, Researcher, New...

Economic Inactivity - An All-island Problem

19 Feb 2020
Paul Mac Flynn
Economic inactivity has long been seen a structural weakness of the Northern Ireland economy but a closer look at the figures shows an even bigger problem south of the border. Yesterday the seasonally adjusted rate of unemployment in Northern Ireland (NI) was recorded at 2.4% in the last quarter of...

Community wealth building for the regions?

12 Feb 2020
Paul Goldrick-Kelly
In this week’s blog, Paul Goldrick-Kelly looks at the potential of a “community wealth building” model emphasising local development, living standards and democracy for regions across the island of Ireland. Both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland are characterised by substantial regional...

Precarious Work in Ireland: Evidence of a structural change

05 Feb 2020
Ciarán Nugent
This NERI inbrief looks at trends in indicators of precarious employment and suggests that recent improvements may belie hidden precarity. Nugent, Pembroke & Taft (2019) provide evidence of growth in various indicators of precarious employment in Ireland over recent years. This inBrief presents...
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