Employment and the Crisis: Work, Migration, Unemployment
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Date: Friday 11 March 2011 from 9.00am to 6.00pm
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Venue: Trinity College Dublin
The aim of this one-day research symposium was to bring together ongoing research on employment, unemployment, inequality and living conditions in Ireland today; it placed the Irish experience in some comparative context and aimed to stimulate further research. The symposium was organised by the Policy Institute together with the TCD Employment Research Centre MSc in European Employment Studies and the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
Background
Ireland has been in crisis for over two years. This crisis iswidely perceived as not just an economic crisis, but a political, social and even moral crisis. What is happening, why it did happen and what solutions exist – all are matters of lively public debate. Up to now the debate has been dominated by economists. More recently, political scientists and contemporary historians have begun to enter the debate. Yet there is little evidence on what is happening in the workplace and even the labour market is only discussed in macro-economic terms.
Programme
9.00 - 9.30am | Registration and Coffee |
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9.30 - 9.45am | Welcome - Elaine Moriarty, Trinity College Dublin Overview of Day - Philip O’Connell, ESRI |
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Richard Hyman - London School of Economics and Political Science | The European Context |
Tom Prosser - Trinity College Dublin | Trade Union Responses in Ireland and Spain Compared |
Michael Doherty - Dublin City University | Crisis and Collapse of Social Partnership in Ireland |
11.15 - 11.30 | Coffee/Tea |
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Peter Mühlau - Trinity College Dublin | Recession and Newly Arrived Immigrants – Results From the 'Polonia in Dublin' Study |
James Wickham - Trinity College Dublin | Emigration Again – Ireland 1980s, Poland 2000s, Ireland 2010s… |
Elaine Moriarty - Trinity College Dublin and Torben Krings - Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria | I would go back to Poland and then what? Migrant Stories in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland |
1.00 - 2.00pm | Lunch (sandwich lunch provided) |
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Elish Kelly, Seamus McGuinness and Philip O'Connell - ESRI, Dublin | Training the Unemployed During Recession |
Camille Loftus – University College Dublin | Better Off on the Dole? |
Nata Duvvury – NUI, Galway | Gender, Employment and Recession: Trends and Impacts |
3.30 - 3.45pm | Coffee/Tea |
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Helen Russell - ESRI, Dublin |
Over-Indebtedness in Irish Households |
Fran McGinnity and Helen Russell - ESRI, Dublin |
Employees in Recession: Working Conditions and Well-Being |
Brian Nolan - University College Dublin and Bertrand Maître - ESRI, Dublin | Poverty and Inequality in the Crisis |
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Klaus Dörre - Uni-Jena, Germany | Precarious Work – Consequences for German Trade Unions |
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James Wickham - Trinity College Dublin | Conclusion and Wrap Up |
Registration
This symposium is now fully booked. For questions please contact Helen Murray at:
- Email: policy.institute@tcd.ie
- Phone: +353 1 896 3486
- Fax: +353 1 677 0546
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