NERI Video Series Episode 2: An Ireland Worth Working For
Guest presenter Sarah Harte, ISSU President speaks to Tom Healy, NERI about his book An Ireland Worth Working For - Towards a New Democratic Programme. He discusses how his book is relavent to young...
NERI Video Series Episode 1: Banded Hours & Precarious Work
Guest presenter David Gibney, Communications Officer, MANDATE discusses the Banded Hours Legislation with SIPTU researcher Michael Taft and activist and MANDATE member Muireann Dalton. Listen only...
Are we there yet?
By any measure, we are a decade into the recovery that followed the great financial crash. Every month there is a release of statistics pertaining to economic output, the labour market or exports. Every month we tend to look at these numbers over the last 10 years and ask ourselves the question -...
Automation technologies and the future of work
Recent rapid advances in artificial intelligence, robotics and other forms of smart technologies have led to widespread concern about the potential impact of automation technologies for the future of work. Some paint a doomsday scenario with the unstoppable march of the robots resulting in large...
NERI Seminar Dublin: Employment effects of public innovation support measures for companies in Europe
Slides from NERI Seminar Dublin: 'Employment effects of public innovation support measures for companies in Europe' presented by Valentina Patrini, Research Officer, Eurofound on 13th February, 2019. Slides eurofound - innovation and employment - 13 feb 19 from NevinInstitute
NI Economic Conference 2018 - The Quality of Employment in Northern Ireland
External event contribution Dr Lisa Wilson presentation to the Agenda NI Northern Ireland Economics Conference 2018
Immigration and low pay
Over the last number of weeks there has been increasing discussion over what the United Kingdom’s immigration policy will be once it leaves the European Union. Despite playing a disproportionately large role in the debate at the time of the referendum, the issue of immigration has since taken a back...
Measuring Job Quality: The ‘Better Jobs Index’
This increased concern over job quality in the UK was initially formalised by Prime Minister Theresa May when she commissioned Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA to undertake a review of modern working practices. One of the key recommendations made by the Commission in its report was that...
‘Bad’ Jobs and Productivity: Why flexible employment is negatively affecting productivity
Productivity - the amount of value produced per hour worked - has grown at a painfully slow rate across many large Western economies since the financial crisis of 2008. The UK has been among the worst performing economies and within it, Northern Ireland has been falling behind even more. At the same...