Economic & Social Research Institute

The country is almost at full employment, a talent war is raging and offering extra money is no longer the only way to retain staff or attract new rec(...)

Irish workers have been revealed to be among the most stressed in the EU. A recent Europe-wide survey conducted by the European Agency for Safety an(...)

What/where did you study and when did you graduate? My undergraduate degree was a BA in social and political studies and economics from NUI Galway. I(...)

At the end of the 1980s, after a miserable decade of fiscal retrenchment, the clouds began to lift on the Irish economy. While emigration peaked in 19(...)

How lone parents are treated in the budget will be a test of the Government’s commitment to gender equality, organisations and individuals advocating (...)

For something as ground breaking as the detailed research that went into the ESRI report Playing Senior Inter-County Games: Experiences, Realities and(...)

GAA president John Horan has suggested that the GAA might consider the appointment of an equivalent of the IRFU’s performance director, David Nucifora(...)

The new research carried out by the ESRI into the lives of senior inter-county players confirms a lot of what had been anecdotally suggested in recent(...)

Irish taxpayers are still paying more in income tax, USC and PRSI combined than they were a decade ago, despite repeated Government promises to cut ta(...)

Decisions made over the last 10 budgets have resulted in lower disposable incomes for women with children than their male equivalents, a new study by (...)