Community wealth building for the regions?
In this week’s blog, Paul Goldrick-Kelly looks at the potential of a “community wealth building” model emphasising local development, living standards and democracy for regions across the island of Ireland. Both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland are characterised by substantial regional...
Evidence of persistent precariousness in the Irish Labour Market
In this week's blog, Ciarán Nugent looks at trends in indicators of precarious employment and suggests that recent improvements may belie hidden precarity. The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is a large-scale, nationwide survey of households in Ireland, designed to produce quarterly labour force estimates...
NERI Seminar Dublin: The Rise of Platform Mediated Employment: Employment and Welfare Issues
The seminar looked at "The Rise of Platform Mediated Employment: Employment and Welfare issues". It took place on Wednesday 12th February, 2020 at 16:00 in the Fórsa offices, Nerney's Court, Dublin 1, DO1 R2C5. Dr Damian Thomas, Senior Policy Analyst, NESC presented at the seminar. Abstract: This...
Slides from NERI Seminar Belfast: The word on the high street: Understanding the impact of retails decline on people and places
Daniel Tomlinson slides from NERI Seminar Belfast: The word on the high street: Understanding the impact of retails decline on people and places
"Economics Made Simple" week 3 - "Automation and the Future of Work"
Paul Mac Flynn, Acting Co-Director at the NERI presented at week 3 of the "Economics made Simple" series of lectures in conjunction with The People's College. Paul presented on "Automation and the Future of Work". The lecture took place on 4th November, 2019 in The Teacher's Club from 18:00 - 19:30.
Local impact of Wrightbus closure cannot be ignored
The announcement last week that Wrightbus has gone into administration with the loss of up to 1,200 jobs has dealt a significant blow to Northern Ireland’s manufacturing sector at a time when the sector faces an existential threat. Furthermore, it is just the latest in a long series of closures to...
Bogus self-employment in Construction
Anecdotal evidence from the Construction sector suggests bogus self-employment is rampant and growing as a share of employment in the sector. However, due to its nature, much of bogus self-employment occurs in the black economy, which raises issues around estimating precisely how widespread it is...
NERI Video Series Episode 3: Workers Co-operatives and Trade Unions
Fiona Dunkin, Policy & Communications Manager, Co-operative Housing Ireland & CWU member talks to Cian McMahon, International Centre for Co-operative Management, St Mary's University, Nova Scotia...
Precariousness is still elevated even after seven years of uninterrupted economic growth
There is no accepted definition of what exactly constitutes precarious work. Precarious work takes many forms and is characterised by in-work poverty as well as the insecurity related to the nature of many types of employment contracts (part-time work, temporary contracts, agency contracts, bogus...
The latest labour market figures: positive trends, but participation and employment rates still down
The Central Statistics Office recently released the results of the Labour Force Survey (the newly minted official source of employment data) for the first quarter of 2019. The release corroborated much of the recent good news for the Irish labour market as general positive trends continue. In many...