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THE NUMBER OF people signing onto the Live Register fell by 3,200 in July bringing the seasonally adjusted number of people signing on to 419,200.
According to new figures released today by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), unadjusted figures showed that there were 441, 976 people singing on in July 2013 representing a fall of 18, 347 on last year.
Seasonal adjustment of the figures is a statistical method of removing certain seasonal events and trends which would cause a swing in statistics. The seasonally adjusted figure provides a better indication of the overall trend of people signing on the Live Register.
The Live Register is not designed as a measure of unemployment but today’s CSO figures translate to a standardised unemployment rate of 13.5 per cent, down from 13.6 per cent in June.
An age breakdown of the figures shows that the percentage of persons aged under 25 on the Live Register remains above the average at 16.4 per cent but down on the July 2012 figure of 17.5 per cent and the July 2011 figure of 19.0 per cent.
There is significant gender variation in the trend of those unemployed for a year or more. The number of long term claimants was 197,571 in July with the number of male long term claimants decreasing by 5,238 in the year to July 2013 while females increased by 2,723.
The fall in numbers signing on was welcomed by the Small Firms Association but acting director Avine McNally says that the figures are strongly influenced by emigration and that tackling long-term unemployment is a difficult task:
The task the Government faces in re-skilling and retraining the long term unemployed is daunting, but necessary, if Ireland is to further improve the quality of our workforce and avoid a long period of structural unemployment.
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Jobsbridge, internship and tusc, the magical steps to hiding those true figures
So austerity is working and all the strategic defaulting is not harming the economy, Great Well done us.
Also alot leaving the country !!! Still with jobsbridge u still get ur dole …
As well as emmigration, reduced hours, part-time work.
The fact is we’re losing more jobs – and workers – than we are creating jobs.
The real jobless figure is around 23% and without emmigration would be around 40%.
And yet earlier this year Ireland issued almost 1,500 work visas to Brazilians to come and work in factories.
Which begs the question: why?
I think we know the answer to that.
“earlier this year Ireland issued almost 1,500 work visas to Brazilians to come and work in factories.”
not just factories, everywhere and anywhere theres cheap labour offered, and that figure is much higher if you look around, not to mention illegals. all you’ll hear from these employers is “theres a hugh shortage in IT” really? then employ from within the EU or is there another reason not to? NERA might know the answer to that. Exploitation is one.
Who are the pathetic losers giving the red thumbs to comments stating the facts? Emigration is the reason our unemployment rate isn’t higher. It remains the pressure release valve that so many pathetic governments in this country have relied on. We will have another lost generation, people who want to work and contribute taxes but who the government have let down. But hey, get those red thumbs out you FG/labour lovers, enda and Eamon doing an almighty job.
I agree that emigration helps the jobs figures but I have 3 friends, and know of other people, who emigrated but their visas have run out which means that they are back here. They do come back!
When you come back you can’t sign on or claim anything because “it was your decision to leave”. That’s what I was told when I came back from Sydney. As an Irish citizen you get nothing only grief in this country.
Qantas airlines quarterly report outlines increased in passenger numbers and record profits…..
aer lingus announced growth in long haul figures today and profits…so its usa,middle east and oz we have to thank for the drop
Really… Because according to QANTAS own stats their international passengers fell 7.2% in April and were flat in May, QANTAS blamed the fall in passenger numbers on reduced selling on routes to Europe….
Really… Because according to QANTAS own stats their international passengers fell 7.2% in April and were flat in May, QANTAS blamed the fall in passenger numbers on reduced selling on routes to Europe….
Is there anyone stupid enough to believe this spin ? Emigration emigration and emigration
Great news. This will obviously mean that the social welfare budget won’t need to be cut in the budget. Child benefit will probably return to pre budget 2011 levels. Happy days!!!
They are signing people off automatically, anybody on part time casual work who doesn’t receive a payment for a few weeks has their claim automatically cancelled. Its a complete scam
If you are involved in job-bridge or on a FAS course you don’t feature in the stats. To be honest I think the numbers have fallen but, I think it’s an extremely low number in reality. That is, when you strip out emigration and hiding people in courses.
exactly Scarr its ridiculous really coming out with these figures to make it look like things are improving but in reality there not…with people leaving left, right and centre and then people on internships or courses, how many people out of the 3,200 have got full time jobs with pay that they can actually live on? wouldn’t say that number is to high or anywhere near 3,200
“I’m leaving on a jet plane, don’t know when I’ll be back again”
There is a song there somewhere….
Naive people = Red.
Smart people = Green.
Now lets see those colourful thumbs.
Well according to the article there were 441976 people “singing on in July 2013″. Maybe that’s what they were singing?
I personally know of 2 people that the Social paid for to go over to Britain to attend job interviews ……SAYS IT ALL REALLY ….EXPORTING OUR BRIGHTEST AND BEST EDUCATED
That’s depressing
Always was our greatest export
Peter , the social welfare paid for my passport . Honestly !
Can’t believe it .
That’s handy to know, had an interview in the UK earlier this year and had to borrow the money to go. When I get another interview, I’m going to ask for help from the DSP.
‘Today’s figures translate to unemployment rate of 13.5% down from 13.6%.’ If this is spin then they need to sack their PR guys. Those are ugly numbers.
Considering it was over 14% last year, that’s not bad considering there was 3.5billion sucked out of the economy. It shows that even with reductions in government stimulus, the emigration valve and business will combine to reduce unemployment.
This suggests to me that when we complete the austerity program, we may start creating more jobs. And that’s where we want to be: a manageable deficit which allows us to borrow money, so that job creation can take care of the rest of the deficit.
If we left the budget alone this year (no cuts and no new taxes) we would increase job creation, the problem is that no-one would fund our deficit. Once we’re in a position where people will fund our deficit spending, then job creation will outweigh job loss to the extent that we make real inroads into the headline figure.
What kind of jobs are they magically going to create? Who will pay these people and for what? If they’re providing services where will people suddenly get money for them? If they’re selling goods who will suddenly have extra money to buy them? Or will it all be foreign investment? I genuinely don’t understand how it works. I just know that in the meantime my mortgage interest rate keeps going up and my public sector wage keeps going down.
Let the “spin” commence.
Judging from the posts in glad too see that people aren’t taking in by the spin
Hash tag emigration
Emigration,Eastern europeans heading home, Suicides, seasonal jobs, job bridge and people being struck off.
Eastern europeans heading home??? that will be the day, working or on the dole, they’re here to stay, its all about the moola, triple wages, quadruple dole here for their nest egg. they’ll be heading home alright, when the nest egg is nice and large.
its about to increase again as a certain company refuse to pay staff when store closed due to flood damage.
Mainly part time jobs, jobs subsidised by the IDA and good old emigration
FG plan working a treat
IMF quoted last month the true figure of 24% more like the truth these figures are spin http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/forget-parttime-jobs-real-unemployment-rate-is-24pc-says-imf-29358808.html
Emigration.
I count five or six new Irish arrivals in Madrid this week alone (multiply that by x cities, x weeks …).
It’s a simple fact, there is employment outside of our borders and the effect is clear to see.
I’m curious to know how they calculate those on JobBridge schemes? Off the register? Someone enlighten me.
I should add, from talking to this group; they’re not here for a holiday, gap year or Erasmus … but for the long haul.
There are 67K on activation programmes, this includes the 6k on jobsbridge. All are excluded from the Live Register.
Spanish unemployment, youth unemployment in particular, is even higher than here. What are these Irish doing in Madrid? How are the received in Spain? I ask because last week there was news of 50 cleaning jobs being created here and one wag posted “50 jobs for Estonians” in response. Is there a similar level of antipathy towards fellow Europeans in Madrid?
exactly, not to mention the Spanish language. There far more Spanish here than us there, i can guarantee you that. everyones coming here, there will be no irish left here, emigration, old age or suicide.
And in other news the number of Dodo attacks has remained at zero, in line with last years figures…..
No Dodos remaining in Ireland = No Dodo available to attack.
Less unemployed remaining in Ireland = Less people available to sign on.
Pointless figures
If you look at tescos. Aldi lidl Dunne. They employ people on 22.5hrs so you can’t claim SW. And it takes people of the live register.
Come fly with me, come fly come fly away!
3200 that left the country and a government will say it was there policies that reduced the number unemployed. In theory goverment correct since there disastrous policies forcing people to leave.
Out of that figure most have emigrated. Still I think they’re better off. Best to get out of this sh1th0le while they still might have pleasant memories.
13.5% is feckin’ high unemployment so I don’t know what people think they’re hiding. If they are trying to hide anything, they’re not doing a very good job of it.
It’s like people who comment on this site love bad news and want even worse news when they get some.
Any numbers on how many emigrated in the same period?
Its a good news story or should that be a dubious good news story?
So another 3200 have left the country
Was talking to one of the people that went to Britain for a job interview … He was told by the SW that his claim here would still be considered active until he informed them that he had got work either in Britain or here…. So if he wanted to he could do like some others do …work abroad & fly back here to sign on & collect his dole money …
Might have some thing to do with the some 200 people’s that leave daily approximately 2 every 5 mins fg labour fg the men Behind mass emmigration and they don’t care either
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