Incomes in Northern Ireland: What’s driving the change

30 Sep 2015
infobo
As the UK economy enters recovery phase, attention is turning to the subject of living standards and whether household incomes have revived to the same extent. Research to date indicates that households in Northern Ireland have yet to experience any significant recovery. Despite disagreement on a...

Monday Blog: The rising cost of health

25 Sep 2015
Tom Healy
Human health is the number one priority for people. Living a healthy life and enjoying well-being of mind and health of body is something that we all aspire to. Public policy can play a vital role in informing, equipping and resourcing people to achieve better health. As Irish society ages there...

Quarterly Economic Facts - Autumn 2015

24 Sep 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)...

Press release: Launch Quarterly Economic Observer, Autumn 2015

24 Sep 2015
Daragh McCarthy
The Government needs to take a strategic long-term approach to growing the economy argues NERI Quarterly Economic Observer, Autumn 2015. NERI predicts strong economic growth of 5.9% in 2015 and still robust growth of 4.1% in 2016. The Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI) will publish its latest...

Is Ireland’s Welfare System Excessively Generous?

17 Sep 2015
Micheál Collins
Earlier this week, the OECD launched their new Economic Survey of Ireland and noted both progress and challenges for the economy since their last assessment in 2013. The report notes the significant role played by the redistribution system (taxes and in particular transfers) in reducing the...

Employee and Self-Employed Earnings

16 Sep 2015
infobo
Despite its relevance to broad areas of public policy, detailed assessments of the structure and distribution of the income of workers in the Republic of Ireland has been limited. This Research inBrief, which summarises results from an accompanying NERI Working Paper, provides a profile of the...

Employees and the Self-Employed: an earnings profile

16 Sep 2015
Micheál Collins
Despite its relevance to broad areas of public policy, detailed assessments of the structure and distribution of the income of workers in the Republic of Ireland has been limited. The latest NERI Research inBrief examines the distribution of work related earnings for both employees and the self...

Little point in many mothers returning to work

09 Sep 2015
Micheál Collins
It makes little financial sense for many Irish mothers to return to work – that’s the conclusion of a new EU research study looking at the realities of the back-to-work choice faced by women across EU member states. The study, by Olga Rastrigina and Alina Verashchagina, focuses on the financial...
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