11th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference - afternoon plenary session - 23 May 2023
Date: 23 May 2023 Venue: Queen's Management School at Queen's University Belfast. Title: Labour Market Statistics in Northern Ireland & the Republic of Ireland - Similarities & Differences in Concepts...
Mapping the Labour Market in Ireland
In this week’s blog, NERI economist Chris Smart discusses his recent NERI Report Series on ‘ Mapping the Labour Market in Ireland’. When trying to understand the labour market in Ireland, it can be a challenge to separate out the anecdotal evidence from what we can objectively verify to create an...
Gender pay gap: Turning rhetoric into action
In this blog, NERI senior economist, Dr. Lisa Wilson discusses the gender pay gap. This article was printed in March 2023 in the AgendaNI publication. The gender pay gap is an issues of continuing concern and debate. In this recent related Working Paper, Dr. Wilson discusses which factors reduce and...
Northern Ireland's gender pay gap performance: not as rosy as it looks
In this blog, Dr. Lisa Wilson, NERI senior economist summarises findings of NERI Working Paper ' How are we unequal? The adjusted gender pay gap in Northern Ireland' which provides evidence to show that Northern Ireland's gender pay gap performance is not as rosy as headline figures suggest. On...
NERI Seminar Series - 2023 - Understanding the Gender Gap in Northern Ireland: Drivers and Protective factors
The seminar titled 'Understanding the Gender Gap in Northern Ireland: Drivers and Protective factors' was presented by Dr. Lisa Wilson, Senior economist, NERI. It took place on Thursday 23 February...
A strange cost of living package
In this NERI blog, NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell discusses the government's 'cost of living' intervention. The government's 'cost of living' intervention was somewhat difficult to understand from this humble economist’s perspective. In particular, the decision to retain the privileged 9% VAT...
The Cost of living crisis in Northern Ireland: A generation in the making
In this blog by NERI Senior economist, Dr. Lisa Wilson she discusses the cost of living crisis in Northern Ireland. When we look at the approach that has been taken by Governments to deal with the impacts of the cost-of-living crisis on households and businesses. The response to the Covid pandemic...
NERI Seminar Series-2023-Over qualification of third level graduates in Ireland- Ciarán Nugent
The 'Overqualified third-level graduates in the Irish labour market' seminar took place in the Fórsa offices on Wednesday 11 January 2023 from 15:30 - 16:30. It was also run as a live streamed event...
11th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference - presentations and videos
The 11th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference in association with Queen’s Management School at Queen’s University Belfast provided a forum for the presentation of research papers on labour market issues (North & South of Ireland & international). It took place in Queen’s Management School at Queen’s...
Presentation from the NERI Seminar - Job quality and new data from the European Working Conditions Telephone Survey (EWCTS) 2021
The 'Job quality and new data from the European Working Conditions Telephone Survey (EWCTS) 2021' seminar took place in the Fórsa offices on Wednesday 29 March 2023 from 15:30 - 16:30. Details of seminar: Agnès Parent-Thirion, Senior Research Manager in the Working Life unit at Eurofound presented...