Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/101932 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8401
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper assesses the impact that the 2009 Great Recession had on individual's transitions to and from unemployment in Ireland. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined between 2006 and 2011, while the rate from employment to unemployment increased. The impact of some of the factors identified as contributing to the likelihood of a transition taking place were found to have changed over this period. In particular, young people are much less likely to exit unemployment, but at the same time they have a lower risk of becoming unemployed. Education has become an increasingly important factor in both supporting unemployment exits and reducing the risk of becoming unemployed since the recession. The scarring impact of long-term unemployment appears to have fallen substantially in Ireland post-recession. The results from a decomposition analysis show that compositional changes are largely unimportant in explaining the change in the transition rates between 2006 and 2011.
Subjects: 
labour market transitions
Great Recession
longitudinal data
decomposition techniques
Ireland
JEL: 
J64
J88
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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