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...
NERI Webinar Post Budget 2021 Commentary
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) and Eamon Murphy (Social Justice Ireland). Each panelist made a 15 minute presentation responding to...
8th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2020 webinar - Pensions and labour market experience of older people
Find the video from day 2, session 2 of the 8th NERI Annual Labour Market Conference 2020 held on 18th September, 2020 as a Zoom webinar. This session on ' Pensions and labour market experience of...
8th NERI Annual Labour Market Conference 2020 webinar - PAYE Modernisation
Find the video from day 2, plenery presentation by the Central Statistics Office at the 8th NERI Annual Labour Market Conference 2020 webinar held on 18th September, 2020 as a Zoom webinar. Mr Sean O...
8th NERI Annual Labour Market Conference 2020 webinar - Productivity in Ireland 2018
Find the video from day 1, plenery presentation by the Central Statistics Office at the 8th NERI Annual Labour Market Conference 2020 webinar held on 17th September, 2020 as a Zoom webinar. Ms Yvonne...
