Ah.
…due to high birth rates, and collapsed employment levels, ameliorated by massive emigration, Ireland is the worst performing country of ALL SOEs [Small Open Economies] (in fact we are the worst performing country amongst all Advanced Economies). This distinction was earned for the first time (since 1980) in 2011, the year when this Coalition came to power.
Employment rate in Ireland – beating wrong records (Constantin Gurdgiev, Tre Economics)
Oh, wait now…
The proportion of households without a working adult in Ireland is the highest out of 31 European countries and more than double that of the euro zone average, according to a report published by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) this morning.
In 2007, before the recession began, Ireland also had the highest proportion of jobless households in the zone.
In 2010, 22 per cent of households in Ireland were jobless compared to the euro zone average of just over 10 per cent. A jobless household is defined as one in which its adult(s) spend less than one-fifth of their available time in employment.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
The number of people at work in the April-June period fell by nearly 14,000, the biggest three-month fall in a year, according to the Central Statistics Office. The figures appear to dash hopes that employment growth is at hand.
They show there were 1,783,400 people employed on a seasonally adjusted basis in the second quarter, meaning there are 357,000 fewer people at work since employment peaked in 2007.
Minister for Jobs Richard Bruton last night acknowledged the continued fallout from the collapse of the “bubble economy”, but said “the sectors on which we will build the future economy are now showing signs of growth”.
That’s good, because, by all accounts, increasing jobless figures just dashed hopes of growth.
Previously: Messi
(MarkStedman/Photocall Ireland)
Bad enough without this.
Brendan Lyons, from Skibereen, Co Cork, writes:
“One-morning-a-week housework was the only vacancy I spotted for Skibbereen in the Southern Star of September 1st. I looked at the CSO site myself. In July 2012 there were 789 men and 582 women available for work in the town.
It is demoralising for the unemployed, either long- or short-term. Demoralising also, because Skibbereen is a microcosm of the whole country.
More demoralising – no, let me be blunt – more degrading, is the 19th century practice of herding the vulnerable into a long line to “sign on”. For the most part, I imagine, they would prefer to have nails surgically removed without anaesthetic than this.
People do not like all and sundry knowing what they earn. Neither do I, but I might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb: it is €95.70 a week. As someone who was self-employed for more than 20 years, this is what I now receive per week in State benefit.
I may as well shout it from the rooftops, because the second form of degradation visited on the unemployed is that the post office staff in Skibbereen, all of whom I have known for that same 20 years, are put in the embarrassing position of knowing what it is every unemployed person in the town earns. After all, they count every cent into their hands.”
Making People Jump For Work That Does Not Exist Must Stop (Brendan Lyons, irish Times)
(Photocall Ireland)
Oh.
The ESRI has taken the unprecedented step of withdrawing the working paper that stated that up to 44% of unemployed families were better off on the dole.In a statement this evening, the ESRI said the working paper had been issued as a ”work in progress” on 22 May. It was not an ESRI report, it said, and had not been subject to any refereeing procedures
Hmm.
Time to consult Karl’s Job Or Dole thingie™
The ESRI Report here.
ESRI withdraws Paper On ‘Cost Of Working’, Saying Contents Could Be ‘Misleading’ (RTE)
Take a look at this graph of live register signons by those under 25 in Ireland. What do you see?bit.ly/zHhZFO
— Stephen Kinsella (@stephenkinsella) January 17, 2012
Breasts?
Kevin Whitty writes:
I met a lad in Sydney that had this job. His [work entailed] going out every night to different bars and clubs armed with a Jameson credit card and purchace rounds of Jameson, ginger ale and a slice lime for anybody that wanted one. Naturally he became my best friend
