Comments on: More than half of all jobs for young men have disappeared

By: Clare

Clare — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:33:44 +0000

Interesting article.

Did I read somewhere that you won an award? If so, big congrats to you. Enjoying your blog, Clare!

By: joe

joe — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:18:52 +0000

Too focused on construction and other dead-end jobs.

By: Foolish Penny

Foolish Penny — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:45:35 +0000

@ Kieran and @ Ronan – outside of CDS rates, are there any other indicators as to whether Ireland might default, or leave the Euro?

By: Unemployment Crisis

Unemployment Crisis — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:40:08 +0000

[...] These astonishing figures add up to almost 100,000 job losses in a segment of the population that had only 175,000 employed at the peak of the boom. Over 55% of jobs for young men have disappeared. One occasionally hears the argument that, as bad as things are, an increase in unemployment of ten percentage points means that 90% of us are in more or less the same position now as during the boom. What these figures show is that while the rest of the economy has lost perhaps about 10% of its jobs, young men have lost more than half theirs More than half of all jobs for young men have disappeared | Ronan Lyons [...]

By: We need to stop large amounts of youth falling into unemployment - Page 5

We need to stop large amounts of youth falling into unemployment - Page 5 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:58:38 +0000

[...] know if you saw this from last week, not exactly uplifting stuff. More than half of all jobs for young men have disappeared Two thirds of young men not in education in places like Limerick and Donegal are in receipt of [...]

By: Cathal

Cathal — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:35:59 +0000

While banks/NAMA and the public finances did grab more attention last year than the rise in unemployment, it’s not really and either/or for the government to pick which crisis to solve. These three crises are inter-related and need to be tackled together, otherwise they will become intractable. We can have all the jobs taskforces, employment subsidies and welfare-to-work schemes we want but they will count for little if the State has bankrupted itself and we have failed banks unable to extend credit to businesses to create those jobs which are needed. Balancing the budget and fixing the banks will go a long way towards improving the underlying employment environment. Active labour market policies will merely heighten this.

By: Irish Left Review · Job Crisis Within a Job Crisis? The Recession Diaries - February 10th

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:43:49 +0000

[...] Bitech Engineering jobs in Louth,a seismic 750 job lost at Halifax, those depressing numbers that Ronan Lyons has pulled up – what are we to make of the state of the labour market only a few weeks into the new [...]

By: Kieran

Kieran — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:25:15 +0000

Since the nominal value of the punt broke above parity with sterling 2 years ago, employment has decreased by a quarter of 1 million.The same scenario looms over the next 2 years.We don’t have a large enough pop to sustain lots of domestice services such as shops and cafes.Employers nwill always hire people with lots of experience-when did anybody last see a half decent job aimed @ recruiting a school leaver?.My local prim school in Dublin received 600 applicants for 2 teaching posts last summer!.

By: John Heavey

John Heavey — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:43:09 +0000

Nothing to worry about though Ronan, we’ve turned the corner and have a march down O’Connell Street in 2016 to look forward to. It’s all good in Biffostan.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:38:54 +0000

“The obvious next question, though, is whether the qualifications we are providing for our young people – men and women – are what a 21st Century labour market needs.”

I am about to launch into a thesis on this. First step is to find out what passes for international best practice in this area (career planning/guidancer for young people) and whether it’s actually fit for the 21st century. Joseph