Trouble ahead for Northern Ireland's Budget
In this week's blog, NERI Co-director Paul Mac Flynn discusses the Northern Ireland draft Budget for 2021/2022. Last month, the Minister for Finance Conor Murphy outlined a draft Budget for 2021/22 to the Northern Ireland Assembly. In the context of the pandemic and a period of unprecedented...
Who's furloughed? Analysis of new furlough statistics for Northern Ireland
The number of employees on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme on December 31st in Northern Ireland was just shy of 95,000. This equates to about 12% of all employees - indicating just how important the job retention scheme has been at protecting the incomes of a significant proportion of workers...
Presentation & Video from The Future of the Irish Social Welfare System webinar
The NERI webinar on The Future of the Irish Social Welfare System took place on Wednesday 24th March, 2021 at 15:00. The talk was based on a recently completed NESC study on 'The Future of the Irish Social Welfare System: Participation and Protection', co-authored by Dr Helen Johnston, Senior Social...
Annual earnings in Northern Ireland – how do your earnings compare?
How many of us know how our earnings compare? Do we know what percentage of other workers earn more or less than us? In looking at the infographic below, how does the average earnings for your sector or your job compare with what you earn? Do we know how much a doctor, a solicitor or an accountant...
Market income increased by less than 1% in 2019 and is more unequally distributed in Ireland than almost any other OECD country
In today's blog, NERI economist Ciarán Nugent looks at the recent report published by the Central Statistics Office on the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) for 2019. The Central Statistics Office recently published a report and some preliminary results of the Survey on Income and Living...
NERI Webinar - The gender pay gap
'How Unequal? The unadjusted gender pay gap in earnings in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland'. Wednesday 16th December, 2020 at 14:00. Date: Wednesday 16th December, 2020 Time: 14:00-16.00 Topic: 'How Unequal? The unadjusted gender pay gap in earnings in Northern Ireland and the Republic...
The rising tide of unemployment: Government policy is key to preventing a winter of discontent
The seasonally adjusted Labour Force Survey estimates for Northern Ireland for the period June-August 2020 showed that, over the quarter the unemployment rate increased by 1.2pps to 3.7%. I believe this figure alone represents the start of the labour market shake-out and beginning of crises (as...