Study explores equality impact of pandemic on labour market, comparing situations pre- and post-pandemic
While younger workers were initially worse hit during the pandemic, as it ebbed in 2022, their employment rate had risen more than other age groups, the ESRI study found
Education was found to be a protective factor, with much higher rates of employment among those with higher education levels throughout the period. The rise in remote working was strongly patterned by occupation and sector, with the greatest increases in IT and financial services, and for workers in professional and clerical support occupations.The findings show that employment rates rose for almost all groups analysed post-pandemic, while unemployment and labour market inactivity generally fell.
At their height, Covid-related employment schemes supported about a million individuals and 37,000 enterprises. Such schemes could be usefully activated in future labour market crises, if they were carefully designed and adequately resourced.
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