9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2021 - Session 4A - Alternatives at work and in public provision
Find the video from Session 4A, Alternatives at work and in public provision at the 9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2021 webinar held on 6th July, 2021 as a Zoom webinar. Paul Goldrick-Kelly...
9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2021 - Session 4B - Precarity and exclusion
Find the video from Session 4B, Precarity and exclusion at the 9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2021 webinar held on 6th July, 2021 as a Zoom webinar. Mr Ciarán Nugent, NERI economist chaired...
Wages in Ireland are more unequally distributed than in any other high-income EU country
This weeks blog is by the NERI economist Ciarán Nugent. The evidence suggests that inequality in Irish wages between the bottom (the 10th percentile) and the top (the 90th percentile) is higher than in any other high-income European country by some margin. The worker at the 90th percentile earned...
NERI Webinar: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Investigating the Issues
The NERI webinar 'Low Pay and the Living Wage: Investigating the Issues' took place on Wednesday 23rd June, 2021 at 11:00. Fran Bennett, Honorary Researcher, Oxford University and member of the Policy...
NERI Discussion Series: Active Labour Market Policies and the Great Recession, Lessons for 2021
Dr Nuala Whelan and Dr Michael McGann of Maynooth University discuss their research on active labour market policies in the aftermath of the financial crisis and what a High-Road approach would look...
No one should use the Covid budget deficit to invent a crisis
This weeks NERI blog by Co-directors, Paul Mac Flynn and Dr Tom McDonnell is an article that they wrote for the Irish Examiner on 24 May 2021. Employment and strong wages, not tax hikes, are the key to restoring the public finances. The financial crash of 2008 and the subsequent recession were...
NERI Webinar: Employment composition in small & large firms in Ireland: skills & quality of employment
The NERI webinar 'Employment composition in small & large firms in Ireland: skills & quality of employment' took place on Wednesday 19th May, 2021 at 14:00. Cathal McDermott, IGEES & Department of...
Changing places: Shifts in employment over the lockdown
In this weeks blog, NERI Co-director Paul Mac Flynn examines the Accommodation & Food Sector and why this sector is struggling to get staff after lockdown. As the vaccine programme continues to roll out and the economy begins to open up again, there are some indications of significant shifts that...
The Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality &the gender pay gap: Issues with targets, data gaps &measures
In this weeks, blog Dr Lisa Wilson takes an in-depth focus on the recommendations of the Citizens Assembly in relation to the gender pay gap and asks whether we can really set targets for closure of the gap if we don’t have the data?' In the Republic of Ireland on the 24th April the results of the...
Collective Bargaining and Economic Performance
In this weeks blog, NERI Co-director Dr Tom McDonnell explores some of the key findings from his NERI Long-Read Series 'Collective Bargaining - Trade unions, economic performance and inequality'. Does collective bargaining matter for economic performance? This crucial issue for policymakers is the...