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Read more: Assessing the policies to assist Disabled People to access Employment in Ireland
This paper will look at the current levels of disabled people working in Ireland, examine what supports currently exist for disabled people in the workplace, consider the possible reasonable accommodations that employees could expect to make, and the grants available to them. The paper will also examine other societal aspects that might prevent people from…
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Read more: The Pandemic: Two years that have changed Ireland. Part 1: Health, Healthcare and the Labour Market
This is the first in a series of papers that aim to give an overview of some of ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has changed Ireland. This paper examines some the key statistics that illustrate the impact of COVID-19 on Irish society since Ireland’s first confirmed case on 29th February 2020 and it focuses…
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Read more: The impact of the 2016 minimum wage increase on average labour costs, hours worked and employment in Irish firms
The impact of the 2016 minimum wage increase on average labour costs, hours worked and employment in Irish firms is now available from the ESRI HERE
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Read more: LFS Agency Worker Employment Estimates, CSO
LFS Agency Worker Employment Estimates are now available from the CSO HERE
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Read more: Labour Force Survey Employment Series Q1 2019, CSO
Labour Force Survey Employment Series, Q1 2019 is now available from the CSO HERE
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Read more: Labour Force Survey Quarter 1, 2019
Labour Force Survey Quarter 1, 2019 now available from the CSO HERE
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Read more: Atypical Work and Ireland’s Labour Market Collapse and Recovery
Elish Kelly and Alan Barrett The Digest Series presents summaries of papers that make contributions to policy debates that have already been published by the identified authors in cited outlets. Introduction This paper looks at developments in the incidence of “atypical work” in Ireland. The OECD (2015) notes that “traditional” permanent, full-time work is being…
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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…
