In the aftermath of the financial and economic crisis, large shares of working-age individuals in Ireland either did … key challenges across different policy areas and institutions. The most common employment obstacles in Ireland were …

Spain and Ireland might seem at first to feature very different labour markets, which go from very tight to very … dynamic simulations that account for the swings of the unemployment rates before and after the 2007 crisis. Our results … productivity, and demographics, succeed in explaining a great part of the changes in unemployment in both countries. …