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A Review of Wage Setting through Collective Bargaining
Factsheet
Overview of Ireland-ILO Cooperation
Social Protection Spotlight
Extending social protection to the cultural and creative sector
Workers in the cultural and creative sector often lack effective access to social protection.
ILO working paper 28
Social Protection in the Cultural and Creative Sector - Country Practices and Innovations
ILO working paper 28
Social Protection in the Cultural and Creative Sector. Country Practices and Innovations
ILO working paper 28
Social Protection in the Cultural and Creative Sector. Country Practices and Innovations
Social dialogue and the Future of Work
Enhancing social partners’ and social dialogue’s roles and capacity in the new world of work
Ireland - Country baseline under the ILO Declaration Annual Review (2017-2018)
Ireland - Country baselines under the ILO Declaration (2000-2017)
Upskilling SMEs
Labour market impact of National Qualification Frameworks in six countries
Social Protection for Children
Child Benefits in Central and Eastern Europe - A comparative review
The purpose of this report is to review the social protection policy for children in Central and Eastern European countries. In particular, the analysis of this report focuses on cash child benefits (family allowances) and their impact on child poverty.
The Right to Social Security in the Constitutions of the World: Broadening the moral and legal space for social justice
ILO Global Study, Volume 1: EUROPE
ILO Technical Note
ILO Technical Note: The state of application of the provisions for social security of the international treaties on social rights ratified by IRELAND
Labour Market Measures in Ireland 2008–13: The Crisis and Beyond
The period leading up to 2008 was one of rapid growth in the Irish economy. After a long period of low growth, high unemployment and the accumulation of large public debts throughout the late seventies up to the mid-eighties, there was a sustained period of high growth from the late eighties until 2007, with average growth rates of over 6 per cent in this period. This is often referred to as the period of the “Celtic Tiger”. Honohan and Walsh (2002) provide a good discussion of some of the main factors thought to be the causes of this boom and suggest that it can be seen as a period of catch-up as the Irish economy recovered from low growth rates associated with poor policy decisions and benefited from a set of other favourable factors. Some of these factors are: access to the single European market, an improvement in the industrial relations climate, favourable conditions for attracting inward foreign direct investment and an improved fiscal position. While Honohan and Walsh (2002) expected a slowdown in growth in the new millennium as the Irish economy converged towards full employment and levels of output per head close to those of its European neighbours, the period from 2000 to 2007 was one of continued economic growth. The nature of growth in this period meant that the Irish economy was particularly exposed to the 2008 financial crisis.
Measuring Employment in the Tourism Industries - Guide with Best Practices
The Guide is one of the technical outputs produced under the joint ILO/UNWTO Agreement which completes a series of international references and methodological tools produced within the framework of the joint ILO/UNWTO Agreement.
The Governance of Policy Reforms in Southern Europe and Ireland: Social dialogue actors and institutions in times of crisis
This edited volume provides an overview of the changes that have occurred in industrial relations systems in southern Europe and Ireland as a result of the debt crisis and subsequent fiscal consolidation policies. The authors take stock of developments and consider policy implications. They identify the new challenges in today's crisis context and rapidly changing economic environment, offering a range of strategies and actions aimed at reinforcing social dialogue and industrial relations institutions in ways compatible with international labour standards and the ILO Decent Work Agenda.
Working Paper No. 49, "The impact of the eurozone crisis on Irish social partnership: A political economy analysis"
This paper is part of a series of studies funded by the European Commission in the framework of an ILO research project on “Promoting a balanced and inclusive recovery from the crisis in Europe through sound industrial relations and social dialogue”. This project resulted from a partnership agreement between the ILO and the European Commission, which is aimed at the study of the impact of the crisis and crisis-response policies on national tripartite social dialogue, collective bargaining, and labour law in the member States of the ILO and those of the European Union (EU). A special focus is on the role of social dialogue actors and institutions in an admittedly difficult economic and political context marked by austerity policies.
Working Paper No. 48, "Resolving workplace disputes in Ireland: The role of the Labour Relations Commission"
This paper is one in a series of national studies that examine how certain high-performing dispute resolution institutions have responded to the changing nature of workplace disputes with a view to informing future developments in dispute resolution policy. Undertaken on behalf of the ILO by leading regional experts, each paper in the series looks at the evolution of a national dispute resolution institution. Highlighting the key challenges the institution has faced and the ways in which it has responded, the papers offer a nuanced understanding of the achievements and continued weaknesses of the system in question.
The politics of economic adjustment in Europe : State unilateralism or social dialogue?
This article depicts the process of design and implementation of austerity policies aimed at reducing public deficits and debt in eight European countries and the role of social dialogue in this context. It is argued that, as governments are shifting policy priorities from economic stimulus towards fiscal consolidation and debt reduction, social dialogue and tripartism are given a less prominent role compared to the first phase of the global economic crisis, during which they played a significant part in devising crisis responses. Austerity policies are presented as being inevitable and non-negotiable. This may not be surprising, considering that the current structural adjustment promoted by the international financial institutions (IFIs), and lately the European Union (EU), is based on Washington Consensus policies which usually exclude public deliberation. The chapter argues that social dialogue should remain part of policy design and implementation even in times of crisis, and highlights several ways of rebalancing the negotiating powers of actors in the real economy to enable them to influence policy choices.