Evidence of the decline of the ‘traditional’ standard employment arrangement and the rise of poor quality ‘bad’ jobs has been escalating internationally and nationally. Nonetheless, despite much attention being given in recent decades to the changing nature of employment and job quality much of this...

This edition of the NERI’s Quarterly Economic Observer (QEO) outlines our latest expectations for the economic outlook in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (Section 1) and examines public finances and the issue of Skills in Northern Ireland (Section 2). Outlook for Northern Ireland Output...

Northern Ireland has suffered years of chronically weak skills attainment amongst its workforce. This weakness has been linked to the wider underperformance of the Northern Ireland economy relative to the rest of the United Kingdom on a range of other measures including wages and productivity. A Low...

Median disposable wages have increased by almost 8% since 2012 whilst the most recent reports by daft.ie show an almost 60% rise in average rents across the country and a 40% rise in asking prices for residential properties in the same period. The biggest rises have been in Dublin, followed by Cork...