ESRI Policy Conference, 2009: "The Labour Market in Recession"
Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2
Date: 30/04/2009
Time: 8.30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The Irish labour market is in crisis, with employment contracting and unemployment growing at an alarming rate. This conference will examine key issues to be addressed in framing an appropriate policy response to the crisis. Five papers will cover:
- Presentation of the OECD Report: Activation Policies in Ireland.
- What can we apply from lessons learned in the 1990s?
- The Finnish Crisis of the 1990s.
- What do Migrants do in a Recession?
- Profiling the Unemployed in Ireland: Predicting Stayers and Leavers.
The Policy Conference is targeted at policy-makers and others with an interest in the labour market.
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Programme
8.30 Registration and coffee
09.10 Opening Address
Frances Ruane, Director ESRI
Session 1: Learning from Experience
Chair: Dermot Mulligan, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment.
09.20 Presentation of OECD Report: Activation Policies in Ireland
David Grubb, OECD.
10.00 What Works? Applying Lessons from the 1990s
Philip O’Connell, ESRI
10.30 From Debt-crisis to Recovery: Finland in the 1990s
Jaakko Kiander, Director, Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki
11.10 Discussion and 11.20 Tea/Coffee
Session 2: Labour Market Behaviour
Chair: Niamh O’Donoghue, Department of Social and Family Affairs.
11.40 What do Migrants do in a Recession?
Alan Barrett (ESRI)
12.10 Profiling the Unemployed in Ireland: Predicting Stayers and Leavers
Philip O’Connell, Seamus McGuinness and Elish Kelly, ESRI
12.40 Discussion
01:00 Close
Enquiries by email to conference@esri.ie or phone 353 1 8632000.
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