NERI Seminar Dublin: Wives, Mothers, Workers: A brief history of women in social policy
Slides from NERI Seminar Dublin: "Wives, Mothers, Workers: A brief history of women in social policy" by Laura Bambrick, Social Policy & Legislative Officer, Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) on 20th March, 2019. Wives, Mothers, Workers: A brief history of women in social policy from...
NERI Seminar Dublin: Recent Trends and Causes of Irish Corporation Tax Revenues
Slides from NERI Seminar Dublin: 'Recent Trends and Causes of Irish Corporation Tax Revenues' presented by Seamus Coffey, Lecturer, Department of Economics, UCC on 30th January, 2019. Slides NERI Seminar - Recent Trends and Causes of Irish Corporation Tax Revenues from NevinInstitute
NERI Seminar Belfast: The organisation of childcare services: What role for gender equality?
Childcare services have been the object of significant reforms in recent years aimed at addressing issues of child poverty, labour market unbalances and demographic ageing of populations. In particular, the presence of strong inequalities in the time men and women spend performing childcare tasks...
NERI Seminar Dublin: Post Budget Seminar 2018
Slides from NERI Post Budget Seminar held in the INTO Learning Centre on 17th October. The three speakers each made a brief presentation responding to aspects of Budget 2019. The presentations were delivered by Fergal O'Brien (IBEC), Michael Taft (SIPTU) and Dr Sinead Pembroke (TASC) Budget 2019...
The End of Austerity?
The UK Budget for 2019/20 will be unveiled later today by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond. While nearly all recent discussion and debate at Westminster has been consumed by Brexit, the political context for this budget is quite different. Obviously, it will be almost impossible to avoid...
NERI Seminar Belfast: Housing in Northern Ireland and its implications for living standards
Presentation and paper from the NERI Seminar 27 September 2018. This paper aims to assess the sufficiency and affordability of housing in Northern Ireland and the implications which housing costs have for living standards. Looking at supply and demand there does not appear to be any misallocation...
A strange notion of freedom
The Irish Tax Institute does not disappoint. It describes itself as ‘the only professional body exclusively dedicated to tax’. In a way, this is an odd description because readers of its yearly pre- and post-budget documentation may have the impression that tax is an evil, but a necessary one at...
NERI Seminar Dublin: Context for Budget 2019: A Long-run Focus
Dr Tom McDonnell presentation at NERI seminar Dublin:
NERI Seminar Dublin: Healthcare - Time for a New Deal
Slides from NERI Seminar: 'Healthcare - Time for a New Deal' presented by Dr Tom Healy, Director, NERI and Paul Goldrick-Kelly, Economist, NERI on 12th September, 2018. Slides NERI Seminar - PGK & TH - 12 Sept 18 from NevinInstitute
A Household net wealth tax for the Republic of Ireland.
Is a wealth tax on net households assets worth over €1 million feasible? Is it desirable? I discuss these issues in the latest NERI inBrief which can be found here. Many of the core principles for net wealth tax design are outlined in an earlier NERI/TASC Working Paper which can be found here. The...