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...
The word on the high street
The way we shop in the UK has changed dramatically in just the space of a decade. In 2008 less than five per cent of retail spending was online, and that share has almost quadrupled in the years since. The latest statistics published just this morning show that in March this year almost a fifth of...
Inflation and the pound - the rise and fall.
As the prospect of a no-deal Brexit looms, much attention has focused on how the UK economy will react to life outside the EU on the first of November. While there are likely to be some immediate impacts on day one arising from border delays and turbulence in the financial markets, it would be...
Launch of the NERI Quarterly Economic Observer (QEO) Summer, 2019
Slides from the Launch of the NERI Quarterly Economic Observer (QEO) Summer, 2019 which took place in Buswells Hotel, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2 on Thursday 18th July, 2019. Dr Tom McDonnell, Senior Economist, NERI was the lead author, the QEO proposes changes to the taxation of capital stocks in...
Trade Unions, Collective Bargaining and Economic Performance
A key goal of workers and unions is to achieve wage growth that outstrips increasing costs of living. Trade unions can influence the labour share and the productivity channels, to the benefit of workers. Unions increase the bargaining power of labour, which enables workers to negotiate a larger...
NERI Seminar Dublin: Whither Industrial Democracy? Irish Trade Unionism and the Cooperative Commonwealth
Slides from NERI Seminar Dublin: "Whither Industrial Democracy? Irish Trade Unionism and the Cooperative Commonwealth" by Dr Cian McMahon, Postdoctoral research position, Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia on 5th June, 2019. NERI Seminar: Whither Industrial Democracy? Irish Trade Unionism and the...
Submission to Budgetary Oversight Committee
External event contribution Executive summary Overall, there is little evidence the economy was overheating in 2018. In this context, our view is that the structural balance was marginally in surplus in 2018 with a plausible range of 0.0% to 1.0% of potential output. The economy is likely to be overheating by the end of 2019...
Is everybody happy? The economics of happiness in Northern Ireland
For some years now, Northern Ireland has come out on top of the UK's happiness league table with people here reporting higher degrees of happiness than people in England, Scotland and Wales. This year is no different with new figures published last week by the Office for National Statistics showing...
7th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference - Ulster University
The Future of Work: automation technology impacts: Session 1A Lena Jacobs, Department of the Taoiseach - Automation and Occupations: A Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Automation on Occupations in Ireland Dr Lisa Wilson, NERI - The Future of Work: the impact of automation technologies for...
Three big ideas to transform Ireland
Ideas drive behaviour. In societies the dominant ideas reflect many competing interests and value systems. What values guide economic activity and public policy in Ireland today? In An Ireland Worth Working For – Towards a new democratic programme, I propose three ‘big ideas’ to guide policy...