Presentations from the 10th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference
The 10th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference was held in the Quinn Building, UCD on Tuesday 14th June, 2022 in association with UCD and the Geary Institute. The conference included research papers on various aspects of the labour market and labour market policy. The research papers are below...
The Digital and Tech sector in Ireland
In this blog, NERI Co-director Paul Mac Flynn discusses his NERI Report Series on the Digital and Tech Sector in Ireland. Facebook, Google, and Twitter are just some of the most famous multinational companies that make up the ever growing digital sector in Ireland. Looking at the performance of the...
What is the latest data telling us on employment and (real) wages?
This weeks blog is by Ciarán Nugent, NERI economist. Although the country still had significant restrictions for the first three weeks of January, this is the most ‘normal’ quarter since the final quarter of 2019, though some sectors were still under various restrictions for the first three weeks in...
Is the Work Placement Experience Programme just a new version of JobBridge?
In this guest blog, Dr Jonathan Arlow asks whether the current Work Placement Experience Programme represents a revamped Jobs Bridge scheme. Concerningly, Dr. Arlow argues that - despite some improvements - the new programme has repeated many of the former scheme's mistakes. The JobBridge internship...
Wages and the cost of living
This weeks blog is an article by NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell from the Irish Examiner on Monday 18th April, 2022. Cost of living pressures are creating almost daily demands for wage increases and other measures to relieve the burden on households. So what happened during the last period of...
NERI webinar: 'PUP transitions to employment'
Jeff Dwan-O'Reilly (Labour market economist at the Department of Social Protection (DSP) and member of the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service (IGEES) and Michael McNelis (Statistician at...
NERI Discussion Series ep. 15 - As the dust begins to settle - Labour market and cost of living 2022
Economic and Social analyst with Social Justiice Ireland, Colette Bennett discusses what the data is telling us about the current state of the labour market, inflation and housing affordability with...
NERI webinar: Understanding changes in the labour share in Ireland and Denmark
Dr Eoin Flaherty presents on his paper with Prof Seán Ó'Riain The share of national income going to workers has decreased steadily across Europe since the 1980s. This apparently uniform decrease in...
Call for Papers - 10th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference
We face multiple challenges in Ireland and globally from a range of issues not limited to inequality, economic development, public health and ecological breakdown. These issues require responses on the part of government at many levels. To ensure these responses are at the sufficient scale and...
NERI webinar: Northern Ireland's productivity challenge: Exploring the issues
Dr. David Jordan (Queen's Management School) presented on joint research done with Professor John Turner (Queen's Management School) at the NERI webinar which took place on on the findings of their...
