A tight labour market but real incomes are falling
In this blog, NERI Co-director Tom McDonnell discusses his NERI Report Series on the outlook for Ireland's economy. The recovery has been much faster and more robust than that of previous recessions. Thanks to a strongly countercyclical stance, household incomes largely held up, the economy’s...
10th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference - presentations
The 10th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference took place in the Quinn Building, UCD on Tuesday 14th June in association with UCD and the Geary Institute. The conference included research papers on various aspects of the labour market and labour market policy. Professor John Geary, UCD presented...
Presentations from the 10th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference
The 10th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference was held in the Quinn Building, UCD on Tuesday 14th June, 2022 in association with UCD and the Geary Institute. The conference included research papers on various aspects of the labour market and labour market policy. The research papers are below...
Northern Ireland’s Productivity Challenge: Exploring the issues
In this week’s blog, Dr David Jordan, Research Fellow, Queen's Management School, Queen's University Belfast discusses the reasons for low productivity in Northern Ireland, based on his Green Paper co-written with Professor John Turner for the Productivity Institute. Over the past decade, the UK’s...
Call for Papers - 10th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference
We face multiple challenges in Ireland and globally from a range of issues not limited to inequality, economic development, public health and ecological breakdown. These issues require responses on the part of government at many levels. To ensure these responses are at the sufficient scale and...
Video from Northern Ireland's Productivity Challenge: Exploring the issues
The NERI webinar 'Northern Ireland's Productivity Challenge: Exploring the issues' took place as a Zoom webinar on Wednesday 16th March 2022 at 14:30. Dr. David Jordan, Research Fellow, Queen's Management School, Queen's University Belfast Abstract: Productivity has been identified as central to...
Covid-19 restrictions &economic supports for Northern Ireland
Health Minister Robin Swann has said that newly introduced restrictions do not go as far as he would otherwise like because there is no economic supports such as furlough available at the NI Executives disposal. This blog explains the reasons behind that. Most of 2021 was dedicated to the constant...
In recovery but more challenges ahead
In this blog by NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell he discusses his latest NERI Report Series paper no.12, 'Economic Trends and Outlook: In recovery but more challenges ahead'. The Irish economy has almost certainly exited the worst of the crisis and its recovery is now picking up steam. The strong...
NERI webinar - 'No Going Back - The Fight for A Fairer Future' - Presentation
The NERI webinar 'No Going Back - The Fight for A Fairer Future' took place as a Zoom webinar on Tuesday 26 October 2021 at 13:10. This was a Fringe Event at the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) Biennial Delegate Conference (BDC). Date: Tuesday 26 October 2021 Time: 13:10 - 14:00 Topic: 'No...
The NERI Economic Report, Presentation to the FSU
The NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell made a presentation to the FSU today on the state of the economy.