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A flow analysis of the link between Irish and British unemployment
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Date Issued
1994
Date Available
2009-04-03T13:37:08Z
Abstract
This paper is a contribution to the research on Irish unemployment which for the first time models the flows into and out of the Live Register. Using the quarterly flow data contructed by the authors (see A Flow Analysis of the Irish Live Register,Economic and Social Review, Volume 26, pp. 45-58, 1994), the analysis proceeds within a small open labour market framework, making use of the concepts of cointegrations and error-correction to model the flows and hence the migratory movements between Ireland and Britain. We outline the advantages of using flow data to link unemployment in a small region and a large region within an integrated labour market. We show that demographic changes resulting from natural increases in population and migration anre likely to be the key determinants of unemployment turnover in Ireland. We conclude that any explanation of Irish unemployment must account for these special features of the economy, and in particular must indicate why domestic employment movements seem to have had so little effect on the unemployment flows.
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
Trinity College Dublin. Department of Economics
Series
Trinity Economic Paper Series
No. 94/5
Copyright (Published Version)
Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics 1994
Classification
J10
J60
Subject – LCSH
Unemployment--Ireland
Emigration and immigration--Ireland
Ireland--Population
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
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