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...

Recent changes in public sector employment in OECD countries

02 Sep 2015
Daragh McCarthy
The scale of public sector employment varies considerably across developed economies; however, the vast majority of EU member states are in a process of reducing the size of central government employment—between 2008 and 2013, Sweden was the only EU country that increased the number of general...

Monday Blog: Northern Ireland at a crossroads

29 Aug 2015
Tom Healy
In recent weeks Northern Ireland has been more to the fore in the news in the Republic of Ireland, As a general rule you know that the economy and society of Northern Ireland are not in such bad shape when they seem to disappear from the news in southern Ireland. The troubles were a regular daily...

The Distribution of Market Income

26 Aug 2015
infobo
The latest income distribution data for the Republic of Ireland comes from the 2013 CSO S urvey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC), released in 2015. This Research inBrief uses that data to examine the underlying distribution of market income in Ireland. This is in effect the pre-distribution of...

New Research on Market Income and its Distribution

26 Aug 2015
Micheál Collins
The latest NERI Research inBrief examines the underlying distribution of market income in the Republic of Ireland. Market income captures the income received by employees as earnings, the profits of the self-employed and other ‘unearned’ income including rental income, private pension income...

Monday Blog: How precarious is new work?

24 Aug 2015
Tom Healy
Suppose you plan to take out a bank loan or mortgage … the first question you will be asked relates to your salary slip or income statement. But, what if you don’t know for sure what your income is next week let alone next year? Many self-employed workers find themselves in this situation. And, a...
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