The Living Wage estimate is based on living costs. It should stay that way.
This weeks blog is by NERI economist, Ciarán Nugent. He discusses the 'at-risk-of-poverty' indicator and the Living Wage. Poverty is a wide and abstract concept that does not lend itself easily to measurement. Finding ways to quantify phenomena which are not easy to simply ‘slap a number on’ is part...
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...
What is the latest data telling us on employment and (real) wages?
This weeks blog is by Ciarán Nugent, NERI economist. Although the country still had significant restrictions for the first three weeks of January, this is the most ‘normal’ quarter since the final quarter of 2019, though some sectors were still under various restrictions for the first three weeks in...
Wages and the cost of living
This weeks blog is an article by NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell from the Irish Examiner on Monday 18th April, 2022. Cost of living pressures are creating almost daily demands for wage increases and other measures to relieve the burden on households. So what happened during the last period of...
NERI Discussion Series ep. 15 - As the dust begins to settle - Labour market and cost of living 2022
Economic and Social analyst with Social Justiice Ireland, Colette Bennett discusses what the data is telling us about the current state of the labour market, inflation and housing affordability with...
NERI webinar: Understanding changes in the labour share in Ireland and Denmark
Dr Eoin Flaherty presents on his paper with Prof Seán Ó'Riain The share of national income going to workers has decreased steadily across Europe since the 1980s. This apparently uniform decrease in...
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...
NERI submission to the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality
Submission by NERI Co-director, Paul Mac Flynn regarding the report of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality. The NERI welcomes the report of the Citizen’s Assembly on Gender Equality and the recommendations that it has issued. Several of the recommendations encompass policy areas where the NERI...
Reports of recruitment problems in hospitality last summer were overblown. Current claims are likely to be too.
Blog by Ciarán Nugent, NERI economist on recruitment problems in hospitality being overblown. Between July and September 2021 (when hospitality was still under some restrictions) Labour Force Survey data have employment numbers in the sector as (all but) fully recovered relative to the same quarter...