Up to two thirds of young men in Limerick now signing on

[Scorpio]

The thread title is from a post called:
More than half of all jobs for young men have disappeared

The author estimates over 100,000 job losses from a young male workforce of 175,000 at the peak, from three sources:
(1) the Live Register has absorbed 20% of young men working in the boom
(2) participation by young men in the work force has fallen by about another 15% of peak employment
(3) emigration represents another 20% of jobs losses.

What's scary is that the emigration estimate is the CSO's latest, which is for last April. If another 20,000 have left since, e.g. a large chunk of the Class of 2009, that means it's closer to two thirds of all jobs for young men gone in less than four years.

There's a good map on that post too, showing the percentage of young men under 25 signing on, by county now compared to three years ago. The figures for Limerick and Donegal are scary - with Waterford and Louth not too far behind.

Shocking stuff.

[Cassandra Syndrome]

Thanks for that Scorpio.

How would Willie O' Dea react to this happening in his own backyard? Let me guess, "it was all because of the collapse of Lehman Bros"

[Cogadh]

Thanks for that Scorpio.

How would Willie O' Dea react to this happening in his own backyard? Let me guess, "it was all because of the collapse of Lehman Bros"

He won't care because they don't make donations and they are unlikely to vote. The whole neoliberal economy that FF/FG were responsible for is rigged so that young men and women are screwed. They are easy targets for gobshítes like O'dea and scum like Enda Kenny.

All they'll get from O'dea or Kenny now is to be told to fúck off to Canada or Austrailia.

[clonycavanman]

What's scary is that the emigration estimate is the CSO's latest, which is for last April. If another 20,000 have left since, e.g. a large chunk of the Class of 2009,...

Shocking stuff.

If 20,000 young men have left....that represents the loss of 73% of the reproductive effort of , for instance, the year 1990; when there were 27,559 male births. See StatCentral.ie - The Portal to Ireland's Official Statistics And the birth rate has approximately halfed since then.

If those are Irish young men leaving, after receiving from our taxpayers , 20 years of childcare, health care and education , that statistic represents an horrendous loss of investment in people by our society and it's parents.

Gone to benefit Austrailia? Gone to benefit the USA?
I'm sure someone in the Government will assure us, 'Nothing to worry about; They'll remit a few dollars home'.

[FutureTaoiseach]

If 20,000 young men have left....that represents the loss of 73% of the reproductive effort of , for instance, the year 1990; when there were 27,559 male births. See StatCentral.ie - The Portal to Ireland's Official Statistics And the birth rate has approximately halfed since then.

If those are Irish young men leaving, after receiving from our taxpayers , 20 years of childcare, health care and education , that statistic represents an horrendous loss of investment in people by our society and it's parents.

Gone to benefit Austrailia? Gone to benefit the USA?
I'm sure someone in the Government will assure us, 'Nothing to worry about; They'll remit a few dollars home'.

18,400 Irish-nationals left/returned to Ireland in the year up to April 2009 so it's not a complete picture. I have yet to see convincing statistical evidence of mass-emigration of Irish nationals. There may be some of it with foreign-nationals. Apparently, emigration to the US fell last year because of restrictions. Canada and Australia are the new destinations of choice, as they were relatively unaffected by the recession and are encouraging immigration.