I thought it would be interesting to focus in on the main State-dominated sectors of employment, as a follow up to my last post. That’s public administration & defence, health & welfare and education. As of Q2, they are just a shade short of accounting for 25% of all employment in the country, rising rapidly.
Share of All Employment in Ireland Accounted for by State-Dominated Sectors
Data from CSO, QNHS
That is making us more like some much-admired (and not-so-admired) countries some of which are very heavily dependent on employment in these sectors.
Share of Employment in Main State-Dominated Sectors across European Countries, Q1 2009
Of course, we don’t have conscription or big defence forces boosting defence employment, and we don’t have Norwegian oil. And this is coming about mainly through the shrinking of productive sectors of the economy, and high unemployment.
Focusing in on the health and social work sector, it looks from Q1 09 data as if the share of our workforce employed in this area is moving (however involuntarily) into line with high income European countries. The data shown are for Q1 09. Irish Q2 data brings us in line with Q1 German data.
Share of Employment Accounted for by Health and Social Work
Tags: employment, Ireland, Labour Market
October 1, 2009 at 9:43 am |
Con, nice site with much here to digest. Will start checking this out more often, thanks
October 1, 2009 at 10:10 am |
Thankee kindly, J.