- Read more: Higher Education Trends: Graduate Employment Outcomes and Salaries
The past five years have seen significant changes in graduate employment outcomes and salary patterns. At present the graduate employment market is buoyant with increasing proportions of Level 8 Honours and Levels 9 and 10 Postgraduate Research[1] graduates reporting to be in employment nine months after graduating
- Read more: Trends in Employment and Unemployment: An Incomplete Recovery
At the end of 2018 employment had increased to over 2,281,300, its highest level ever, and the unemployment is the lowest recorded in a decade. However, recovery in the labour market remains incomplete: the employment rate is lower than before the Great Recession, youth employment remains low while youth unemployment is more than twice the…
- Read more: Housing in Ireland: changing trends in headship rates and tenure by age group
In recent decades, there has been a decrease in home ownership and a substantial increase in renting from a private landlord by those in the younger population age groups. A growing proportion of the younger population are also living at home with their parents.
- Read more: Private Health Insurance in Ireland: Market Penetration and Lifetime Community Rating Reforms
In 2008 the Irish health insurance market was in a strong position with over half of the Irish population covered by private health insurance. However, the sustainability of the market was put into question during the Great Recession due to a significant exodus of the younger population up-taking health insurance
