Despite international evidence of a marked shift in the structure of employment away from standard employment arrangements toward non-standard employment arrangements remarkably little is known about the composition of employment in the Northern Ireland labour market. In this respect, what we do not...

The issue of housing affordability has become a more pronounced part of the public discourse in the past decade or so. This reflects a number of issues, including higher house and rent prices, changing household formation patterns, stricter credit lending regulations and a misalignment between...

Over the last decade or so the Northern Irish labour market has seen an overall decline in the traditional ‘standard’ of regular, full-time, permanent employment, and a rise in non-standard employment (Wilson, 2017).This phenomenon however is not peculiar to Northern Ireland, with a growing body of...