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# Labour Market

Last year
2023
Employment rate in Ireland at highest level since records began in 1998
All time
Ireland up to 15th (beating the UK) in world competitiveness charts
Men "hit harder than women by unemployment during recession"
Most industries plan to hire more staff, but overall employment to drop in Q4
Immigrants "do not fare as well as Irish nationals" in labour market
Immigrant Council welcomes lifting of work restrictions on Bulgarians, Romanians
Lagarde cites Ireland as role model in back-to-work policies
National Employment Week gets underway in Dublin
299,000 people unemployed in third quarter of 2010
IBEC seeks labour market reform and increase in consumer confidence
Jobless numbers continue to fall slightly
Irish growth forecast for 2011 and 2012 to be downgraded
Unemployment to peak at 14% this year