The recovery is coming but there can be no going back to the old economic model
This weeks blog is by NERI Co-director, Dr Tom McDonnell, it is an article that he wrote for the Irish Examiner on 12 July 2021. The pandemic has changed the future direction of the economy with the speeding up of remote working and digitalisation. The economy is on the cusp of a rapid and sustained...
9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2021 - Plenary presentation - CSO Labour Market and Earning Division
Find the video from the plenary presentation by the Central Statistics Office at the 9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2021 webinar held on 6th July, 2021 as a Zoom webinar. Paul Mac Flynn, Co...
9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2021 - Session 1A - Inequality and Earnings
Find the video from Session 1A, Inequality and Earnings at the 9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2021 webinar held on 6th July, 2021 as a Zoom webinar. Dr Lisa Wilson, Senior Economist, NERI...
9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2021 - Session 2A - In job precarity
Find the video from Session 2A, In job precarity at the 9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2021 webinar held on 6th July, 2021 as a Zoom webinar. Mr Paul Mac Flynn, NERI Co-director chaired this...
9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2021 - Session 2B - The pandemic and the labour market
Find the video from Session 2B, The pandemic and the labour market at the 9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2021 webinar held on 6th July, 2021 as a Zoom webinar. Mr Ciarán Nugent, NERI...
9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2021 - Session 4B - Precarity and exclusion
Find the video from Session 4B, Precarity and exclusion at the 9th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference 2021 webinar held on 6th July, 2021 as a Zoom webinar. Mr Ciarán Nugent, NERI economist chaired...
Wages in Ireland are more unequally distributed than in any other high-income EU country
This weeks blog is by the NERI economist Ciarán Nugent. The evidence suggests that inequality in Irish wages between the bottom (the 10th percentile) and the top (the 90th percentile) is higher than in any other high-income European country by some margin. The worker at the 90th percentile earned...
NERI Webinar: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Investigating the Issues
The NERI webinar 'Low Pay and the Living Wage: Investigating the Issues' took place on Wednesday 23rd June, 2021 at 11:00. Fran Bennett, Honorary Researcher, Oxford University and member of the Policy...
NERI Discussion Series: Active Labour Market Policies and the Great Recession, Lessons for 2021
Dr Nuala Whelan and Dr Michael McGann of Maynooth University discuss their research on active labour market policies in the aftermath of the financial crisis and what a High-Road approach would look...
No one should use the Covid budget deficit to invent a crisis
This weeks NERI blog by Co-directors, Paul Mac Flynn and Dr Tom McDonnell is an article that they wrote for the Irish Examiner on 24 May 2021. Employment and strong wages, not tax hikes, are the key to restoring the public finances. The financial crash of 2008 and the subsequent recession were...