In this latest NERI blog, Tom A McDonnell comments on the newly released Department of Finance 'Stability Programme Update' - nerinstitute.net/blog/economy-h… #Employment #Productivity #Tax

Live coverage of NI Assembly Committee for the Economy begins at 10am 📺 The Committee will: 🔵Hear from Dr Lisa Wilson of NERI on good jobs 🔵Consider a written Economy NI briefing on technology clusters #ScrutinyInAction x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Increasing the Local Property Tax primarily raises revenue from the highest income households. The figure below shows that nationally, about a quarter of the revenue from abolishing the 15% rebate would come from the highest income tenth, and just a third from the bottom half.

An interesting study from NERI on productivity in the Irish domestic economy. The data suggest it lags way behind comparable countries. nerinstitute.net/sites/default/…

Last week seamus mcguinness, Adele Bergin and I published work on cross-border workers on the island of Ireland as part of the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) research programme with the Irish Dept of Finance. 🧵on some interesting findings! esri.ie/system/files/p…

With Labour rule, UK and NI economic policies may at last be in sync ➡️belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/commen… belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/commen…

NERI blog by NERI Co-director Tom A McDonnell 'The economy is at capacity - and Budgetary policy should reflect this' - nerinstitute.net/blog/economy-c… #economy #taxes #Welfare

Blog by NERI Co-director, Paul Mac Flynn Paul Mac Flynn comparing performance of productivity between Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland & the UK - nerinstitute.net/blog/northern-… #Productivity #NorthernIreland #Ireland #uk

Public spending per head is now higher in both Scotland and London than it is in Northern Ireland. Data here gov.uk/government/sta…

Today, we have published a new research bulletin titled 'Is the social origin pay gap bigger than we thought? Identifying and acknowledging workers with undefined social origins in survey data.' 💡 Read key findings from the research: esri.ie/publications/i…

This often gets missed in the debate about GERS. The main thing it tells us is just how absurdly unbalanced the UK economy is The figures should be a cause for concern across the UK, not just in Scotland

Dr Dr Anne Devlin: Is Northern Ireland’s low unemployment a red herring? belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/analy… belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/analy…

2) Irish policymakers now have the opportunity to do sustained public investment for perhaps the first time since the foundation of the state, so long as they don’t mess up the delivery.

The untimely death of Macdara Doyle Irish Congress (ICTU) has shocked his many colleagues in NUJ and wider trade union movement. A fine journalist, researcher press officer and campaigns officer and a great friend.

Message on the death of our dear friend and colleague Macdara Doyle. May he rest in peace. ictu.ie/news/macdara-d…

About 56% of employees in the hospitality sector 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳🏩 are Irish, compared to 95% in public admin and defence (i.e. civil service, judges, army etc).

Pivotal's Ann Watt and Paul Mac Flynn speaking about the Programme for Government on UTV's View from Stormont last night (from 4:00) itv.com/utvprogrammes/…

In this blog by the NERI Co-director, Paul Mac Flynn Paul Mac Flynn on 'The cost of not investing in Public Services' - he discusses the findings of a report into the state of the NHS in England - nerinstitute.net/blog/cost-not-… #NHS #England #Health

Cutting taxes, increasing spending, relying on transitory tax revenue to balance the books. Feels like 2006 all over again. Progressives need an alternative fiscal framework – and show that the public finances are not safe with Fianna Fail and Fine Gael: tinyurl.com/yckcmfkn