Low pay in Northern Ireland: An Update
At the start of this month NISRA published its Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings for April 2020. This data offers us our annual opportunity to have a look at what has been happening in the economy over the year in terms of wages and of course, in the context of this year, it offers us the first...
NERI Webinar - The gender pay gap
'How Unequal? The unadjusted gender pay gap in earnings in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland'. Wednesday 16th December, 2020 at 14:00. Date: Wednesday 16th December, 2020 Time: 14:00-16.00 Topic: 'How Unequal? The unadjusted gender pay gap in earnings in Northern Ireland and the Republic...
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 comment - Northern Ireland ASHE data
ASHE data published today show median hourly pay across the economy to have fallen by 2.0 per cent in the year to April. This is most remarkable because it shows starkly the nature of how the Covid public health crisis turned very quickly into a labour market and living standards crisis. Today’s...
NERI Submission to the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversights
External event contribution NERI Submission to the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversights was written by NERI Co-director, Dr Tom McDonnell on 2nd October, 2020.