Monday Blog: What fiscal space?

10 Jun 2016
Tom Healy
In many respects the debate about ‘fiscal space’ is a major turn off for most people as it employs language, terms and concepts that are mechanical, contrived and highly dependent on questionable assumptions. Most policy makers tend to leave the technical details to specialist staff while they get...

Trends in Wage Growth in The Republic of Ireland

02 Jun 2016
infobo
The labour market and wider economy continues to improve with employment levels increasing annually by between 0.1% and 3.3% since Q4 2012 and unemployment rates decreasing year on year, reaching a rate of 7.8% in May 2016. The aim of this Research inBrief is to examine if these trends have sparked...

Monday Blog: The lost decade of wages

02 Jun 2016
Tom Healy
Wages is not an easy topic to consider on the first day of the week which happens to be a public holiday and a mixed one weather wise at that in the Republic of Ireland. Wages form the biggest share of household income for most households. Following years of wage freezes or cuts the economy is in a...

Papers from the 4th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference - May 2016

Past event
4th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference. University of Limerick - May, 2016. The following papers can be downloaded below: Productivity, Innovation and the Future Labour Market Dr Tom McDonnell, NERI Productivity, innovation and long-run growth Professor Jim Deegan, UL Artificial intelligence and...

Professionalising Economics

24 May 2016
Micheál Collins
A new initiative from the Irish Economics Association (IEA), the umbrella body for professional research economists in Ireland, is worthy of note. The IEA has set out a series of ‘guiding principles’ for its members. In essence these set out how professional economists should be operating. The...

Monday Blog: Some questions about the Programme of (new) Government

22 May 2016
Tom Healy
The recent Programme of Government has set the scene for policy priorities for the coming three years. Clearly, much will depend on international events as well as developments closer to home in shaping the success of economic policy. The Programme is long on aspiration and light on detail – as...

New Paper Models a Minimum Wage Increase

19 May 2016
Micheál Collins
The establishment of a Low Pay Commission in the Republic of Ireland and the renewed focus on low pay and a ‘living wage’ both in Ireland and the UK has revived a growing interest in policies that focus on providing adequate minimum levels of pay for all employees. A new NERI research paper from...

Does Ireland Overspend on Health?

15 May 2016
infobo
A comparison of health spending under a number of headings. This InBrief uses data from Eurostat to contrast the Republic of Ireland with similar EU economies of virtue of size and GDP.
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