Youth Unemployment - A broader view

29 Oct 2015
Paul Mac Flynn
Youth unemployment remains one of the most enduring and destructive legacies of the financial crash and the great recession that followed it. Rates of unemployment among young people (those aged under 25) increased dramatically over the 2007 - 2009 period. The NERI's Quarterly Economic Facts...

NERI Post Budget Seminar

22 Oct 2015
Daragh McCarthy
The NERI seminar series resumed yesterday with an analysis of Budget 2016—presentations from each of the three speakers are available below. The speakers outlined the budgetary choices facing Irish society with a special focus on issues related to childcare and housing. Thanks to Michael Taft (...

Government Debt - We're not out of the woods yet

19 Oct 2015
Dr Tom McDonnell
Changes in government debt over time reflect the impact of government deficits. The sustainability of the national debt depends on the scale of the debt in relation to the size of the economy. The government debt-to-GDP ratio is the amount of a country’s total gross government debt as a percentage...

Almost 1 in 5 children live in poverty

15 Oct 2015
Micheál Collins
This weeks ‘family budget’ has helped highlight the challenges Irish society continues to face regarding the provision of adequate and affordable childcare, the ability of second earners with children to join the labour force and the ongoing need for substantial investment in early childhood care...

Household Income in Northern Ireland - Is there a generational divide?

14 Oct 2015
infobo
As the UK economy begins to recover, questions are being asked as to whether the recovery is being felt at household level. The fall in incomes over the recession has been dramatic and nowhere more so than in Northern Ireland. This inBrief seeks to explore household incomes in Northern Ireland over...

Monday Blog: Budgeting for the future

14 Oct 2015
Tom Healy
The proposed budget for 2016 (Republic of Ireland) will go for approval by the relevant European authorities in the coming weeks. One can expect a favourable outcome from that quarter albeit with a caution that the Government ought to be spending less and paying down more of the national debt. In...

Monday Blog: Living long and living well?

12 Oct 2015
Tom Healy
It is widely accepted that the issue of pensions is a boring subject. Curiously, interest in pensions is found to be highly correlated with age so that someone starting out in paid work in their 20’s regards the matter as remote, distant and … boring. In any case the proportion of new hires and...
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