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...

Underemployment in Northern Ireland

19 Aug 2015
Paul Mac Flynn
In June of this year the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency released a paper on the subject of underemploymentent in Northern Ireland. Underemploymnet has become a key policy issue of late due to improving conditions in the labour market. As the paper sets out, underemployment is...

Monday Blog: UK 'Living Wage' move announced

14 Aug 2015
Tom Healy
It is estimated that around 166,700 employees, or 23% of the total in Northern Ireland earned below £7.20 per hour in April 2014. On the face of it, UK Chancellor, George Osborne's announcement that the UK minimum wage would rise to £7.20 by next year is good news for many of these workers. In the...

Monday Blog: Social and economic investment holds the key

06 Aug 2015
Tom Healy
Spending on productive capacity includes not just ‘bricks and mortar’ but all those resources that give rise to socially useful results over time. Spend today and reap a return in the future: this is the logic of investment. It can cover investment in education and skills as well as investment in...

The Structural Balance - Where Facts become blurred

05 Aug 2015
Dr Tom McDonnell
Ireland is expected to successfully exit the corrective arm of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) at the end of 2015. From 2016 onwards Irish budgetary policy will be subject to the requirements of the preventive arm of the SGP as well as being subject to national budgetary rules. The preventive...
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