The Structure of Unemployment in Ireland, 1954-1972. General Research Series Paper No. 77, October 1974

Walsh, Brendan M. (1974) The Structure of Unemployment in Ireland, 1954-1972. General Research Series Paper No. 77, October 1974. UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

THERE is a considerable body of opinion behind the view that Irish .][unemployment, even when agricultural unemi~loyment and underemployment are left out of account, is above all a "structural" problem. If this diagnosis is valid, it follows that the problem will not be readily cured by conventional fiscal and monetary policy, but must be approached primarily by specific manpower policies aimed at reducing regional, occupational, and industrial imbalances between the demand and supply of labour. If, on the other hand, the structuralist viewpoint is not accepted, then these manpower policies are assigned a secondary, although not necessarily unimportant, role, and their main function is to facilitate the operation of an expansionary fiscal and monetary policy and to reduce the inflationary pressures inherent in such a strategy.

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