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 this paper we model the behaviour of the Irish suicide rate over the period 1968-2009 using the unemployment rate … is important in the 15-24 and 25-34 age groups. The unemployment rate is also a significant influence on the male suicide …, with the response to unemployment being greater in the earlier period and that to alcohol greater in the later period. The …

There is considerable debate about the role of wage rigidity in explaining unemployment. Despite a large body of … have been hampered by small samples and measurement error. In this paper we examine nominal wage flexibility in Ireland … workers in Ireland taken from tax returns, which are free of reporting error. We find a substantial degree of downward wage …

The labour market consequences of the severe fall in economic activity that took place in Ireland after the recent … 24 per cent in 2011 (Eurostat, 2013). Very little is known about NEET individuals in Ireland, either in terms of their … which transitions to employment among NEETs and prime-aged unemployed changed over the recent recession in Ireland. The …

unemployment rate fell from the highest to the lowest in the EU. Over the same period a record number of jobs was created and all … boom, which in turn may be attributed to Ireland s super competitiveness in the late 1990s. Several factors contributed to … spending from income support to active labour market policies, played a positive role. The fact that unemployment has risen …