This paper analyses the labour markets of Spain and Ireland, which have experienced a severe downturn in the recent … global crisis as reflected by the largest increases in their unemployment rates among other developed economies. Spain and … Ireland might seem at first to feature very different labour markets, which go from very tight to very flexible labour …

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. …

in Ireland. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined between 2006 and 2011, while the rate from … impact of long-term unemployment appears to have fallen substantially in Ireland post-recession. The results from a …This paper assesses the impact that the 2009 Great Recession had on individual's transitions to and from unemployment …

(follow-up) as part of a nationally-representative longitudinal study on ageing in Ireland. We employ a Regression …

We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas …

frontier is used to analyse labour market adjustment in Ireland from the sixties to the present. The theoretical and empirical … institutional rigidities have been at the root of the Irish unemployment problem in the eighties. …