Transitions in and out of Unemployment among Young People in the Irish Recession

Elish Kelly, Seamus McGuinness, Philip O’Connell, David Haugh and Alberto Gonzalez Pandiella
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Philip O’Connell: University College, Dublin
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No 1084, OECD Economics Department Working Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: Young people have been hit hard by unemployment during the Irish recession. While much research has been undertaken to study the effects of the recession on overall labour market dynamics, little is known about the specific effects on youth unemployment and the associated challenges. This paper attempts to fill this gap by comparing the profile of transitions to work before the recession (2006) and as the economy emerged from the recession (2011). The results indicate that the rate of transition of the youth from unemployment to employment fell dramatically. The fall is not due to changes in the composition or the characteristics of the unemployed group but to changes in the external environment, which implied that the impact of certain individual characteristics changed over the course of the recession. In particular, for youth, education and nationality have become more important for finding a job in Ireland.

Les transitions de périodes de chômage et emploi parmi les jeunes dans la récession irlandaise Les jeunes ont été durement frappés par le chômage pendant la récession irlandaise. Beaucoup de recherches ont été menées pour étudier les effets de la récession sur la dynamique globale du marché du travail, mais on sait peu de ses effets spécifiques sur le chômage des jeunes et les défis associés. Cet article tente de combler cette lacune en comparant le profil des transitions vers le travail avant la récession (2006) et au moment où l'économie a émergé de la récession (2011). Les résultats indiquent que le taux de transition des jeunes du chômage à l'emploi a diminué de façon spectaculaire. La chute n'est pas due à des changements dans la composition ou les caractéristiques du groupe des chômeurs, mais à des changements dans l'environnement externe, ce qui implique que l'impact de certaines caractéristiques individuelles a changé au cours de la récession. En particulier, pour les jeunes, l'éducation et la nationalité sont devenus plus importants pour trouver un emploi en Irlande.

Keywords: chômage des jeunes; decomposition techniques; données longitudinales; Grande récession; Great recession; Ireland; longitudinal data; techniques de décomposition; transitions; transitions; youth unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J21 J61 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-08-16
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Journal Article: Transitions In and Out of Unemployment among Young People in the Irish Recession (2014)
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