A Decade of Deprivation: trends 2005-2014

17 Dec 2015
Micheál Collins
The recently released CSO Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) provides the most detailed insight that we have into the impact of the recent recession, and evolving recovery, on the day-to-day living standards of people and families in the Republic of Ireland. One of its indicators tracks...

Monday Blog: An insecure age

12 Dec 2015
Tom Healy
Being ‘young’ today is the same and not the same as it used to be 50 years ago. It is the same because it tends to be associated with growth, development, opportunity, challenge, rupture …. It is not the same because the world as we know it has changed dramatically in the space of two generations...

Quarterly Economic Facts - Winter 2015

10 Dec 2015
infobo
Recent years have seen a huge growth in the supply, range and timeliness of data from a variety of official agencies including the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), Eurostat, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...

Monday Blog: Nothing comes from nothing: the case of health

06 Dec 2015
Tom Healy
Health is better than gold or ‘is fearr an tsláinte ná an t-ór’ as the saying goes in Irish. Economists and statisticians tend to think of health as a cost as well as a sphere of activity involving consumption of resources in the present time. Health, however, has two dimensions: (i) It is a state...

NERI seminar: Ireland’s daunting climate change challenge

04 Dec 2015
Daragh McCarthy
The latest NERI seminar, 'Ireland’s daunting climate change challenge in the period to 2030: how to respond?', was held on 2 December. Joseph Curtin, Research Fellow at the Institute of International and European Affairs on climate policy, provided an overview of Ireland’s climate change challenge...

NERI Seminar Dublin: Ireland' s daunting climate change challenge

Past event
Joseph Curtin, Research Fellow at the Institute of International and European Affairs on climate policy, provides an overview of Ireland’s climate change challenge within the context of the upcoming Paris COP 21 and EU climate 2030 negotiations. He reviews Ireland’s progress to date, and presents...

Low Pay: Some Insights

02 Dec 2015
infobo
The latest NERI Research inBrief looks at those who are on low pay in the Republic of Ireland. Its key points are: Low pay is more common among: - female workers;- younger workers;- those in the retail, hotel and security sectors;- single parents; and- those on temporary contracts. At the household...
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