This edition of the NERI’s Quarterly Economic Observer (QEO) outlines our latest expectations for the economies of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (Section 1) and proposes changes to the taxation of capital stocks in the Republic, in particular reforms to Local Property Tax (Section 2)...

This paper presents an overview of developments in the labour market in the Republic of Ireland, tracking a selection of indicators related to employment, unemployment and wages. In many respects, the labour market had still not fully recovered in 2018 from the impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis...

A main goal of workers and unions is to achieve wage growth that outstrips increasing costs of living. We call this ‘real’ wage growth and it is necessary for improving living standards. In the short-to-medium term, workers can achieve real wage growth by increasing the productivity of their labour...

This Research InBrief provides an overview of the latest data on employee earnings in Northern Ireland - on an hourly, weekly and annual basis. It also provides a breakdown of employee earnings by gender and employment arrangement. This Research InBrief also presents data on the distribution of...

In recent times the Northern Ireland labour market has been performing strongly. This is evidenced by continued and sustained increases in the rate of employment and decreases in the rate of both unemployment and economic inactivity in the decade following the economic crisis. Although the...