broadening. Together with other European periphery countries, Ireland currently enjoys favorable financial market conditions, and … the government has resumed bond auctions at historically low yields. Unemployment is still high even after a significant …

A positive financial market and real sector developments support Ireland's capacity to exit the EU-IMF supported … execution remains paramount. Improvement in dealing with nonperforming loans and preventing a rise in structural unemployment is …

growth, and employment. The policy implementation of Ireland continued to remain strong, even though the country has been …

implementation of strengthened activation policies and SME supports are also required to support growth and contain unemployment. …

We study the role of uncertainty shocks in explaining unemployment dynamics, separating out the role of aggregate and … measure aggregate and sectoral uncertainty and compare their effects on the unemployment rate in a standard macroeconomic … vector autoregressive (VAR) model. We find that aggregate uncertainty leads to an immediate increase in unemployment, with …