Pension affordability depends on a range of ostensibly unrelated policies
In this weeks blog, NERI Co-director Dr Tom McDonnell discusses the NERI Submission to the Pensions Commission - 'Public consultation regarding the pension sustainability'. The government's pension commission is currently debating the long-run affordability of the Irish pension system. The NERI...
NERI Submission to the Pensions Commission
External event contribution The NERI Submission to the Pensions Commission - 'Public consultation regarding the pension sustainability' was written by NERI Co-director, Dr Tom McDonnell and NERI Economist, Paul Goldrick-Kelly on 9th March, 2021
Presentations from the 9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference - webinar
The 9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference took place on Tuesday 6th July, 2021 from 09:20 - 15:40 as a Zoom webinar. The webinar included research papers on various aspects of the labour market and labour market policy. Please find Programme for the Labour Market Conference webinar here. The...
Trouble ahead for Northern Ireland's Budget
In this week's blog, NERI Co-director Paul Mac Flynn discusses the Northern Ireland draft Budget for 2021/2022. Last month, the Minister for Finance Conor Murphy outlined a draft Budget for 2021/22 to the Northern Ireland Assembly. In the context of the pandemic and a period of unprecedented...
Who's furloughed? Analysis of new furlough statistics for Northern Ireland
The number of employees on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme on December 31st in Northern Ireland was just shy of 95,000. This equates to about 12% of all employees - indicating just how important the job retention scheme has been at protecting the incomes of a significant proportion of workers...
Presentation & Video from The Future of the Irish Social Welfare System webinar
The NERI webinar on The Future of the Irish Social Welfare System took place on Wednesday 24th March, 2021 at 15:00. The talk was based on a recently completed NESC study on 'The Future of the Irish Social Welfare System: Participation and Protection', co-authored by Dr Helen Johnston, Senior Social...
Universal Basic Services - Debating UBS &the policy alternatives
While the term is overused - there can be no doubt that 2020 was an unprecedented and devastating year for the global economy. The crisis has brought radical policy innovations and shown the power of governments willing to act. Our view is that the crisis has highlighted flaws inherent in our social...
The rising tide of unemployment: Government policy is key to preventing a winter of discontent
The seasonally adjusted Labour Force Survey estimates for Northern Ireland for the period June-August 2020 showed that, over the quarter the unemployment rate increased by 1.2pps to 3.7%. I believe this figure alone represents the start of the labour market shake-out and beginning of crises (as...
NERI Post Budget 2021 Commentary webinar
The NERI Post Budget 2021 Commentary took place as a Zoom webinar on Wednesday 21st October, 2020 at 15:00. The presentations were made by Michael Taft (SIPTU), Dr Tricia Keilthy (St Vincent de Paul)...
A firefighting budget
In this weeks blog, NERI Co-director, Dr Tom McDonnell gives the NERI's response to Budget 2021. Budget 2021 was a firefighting budget against the twin threats of Covid and Brexit. It was designed to preserve as much of the economy’s productive capacity as possible by enabling a menu of wage...