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...
Presentations & Video from Employment composition in small & large firms in Ireland: skills & quality of employment
The NERI webinar 'Employment composition in small & large firms in Ireland: skills & quality of employment' took place on Wednesday 19th May, 2021 at 14:00. Cathal McDermott, IGEES & Department of Public Expenditure & Reform was the presenter and NERI Senior Economist, Dr Lisa Wilson was 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...
Annual earnings in Northern Ireland – how do your earnings compare?
How many of us know how our earnings compare? Do we know what percentage of other workers earn more or less than us? In looking at the infographic below, how does the average earnings for your sector or your job compare with what you earn? Do we know how much a doctor, a solicitor or an accountant...
Market income increased by less than 1% in 2019 and is more unequally distributed in Ireland than almost any other OECD country
In today's blog, NERI economist Ciarán Nugent looks at the recent report published by the Central Statistics Office on the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) for 2019. The Central Statistics Office recently published a report and some preliminary results of the Survey on Income and Living...