Seasonal Unemployment

Take Your Pants Off

This might not be the right section, but I think it was the most suitable one I could find.
Basically I have an assignment in which it asks :
Using your knowledge of the Irish economy, describe whether or not you would expect seasonal unemployment in the tourism industry in Ireland.

In my opinion I believe it does not, the reasons being because we don't attract that much visitors to Ireland in the summer compared to winter.
Even if we do attract more, but only by a couple of thousands. I have put up a table showing the number of visitors to Ireland by each quarter.
Lets take 2015 for example , in quarter 1 and quarter 2, which is usually the lowest time for holidays, 1531 and 2345 visitors came respectively, compared to quarter 3 2771 came, there is not much of an increase.

We also have lots of initiatives such as the momentum programme which is a retraining scheme so that long-term unemployed workers can be up-skilled for the jobs available
and then rejoin the workforce
also the government launched ‘Springboard’ programmes which is third level courses aimed at increasing graduates in areas where job vacancies exist.

Where seasonal unemployment really exists, is in the likes of America, Australia, Spain, France. These country suffer huge visitor losses and have a huge drop in sales in summer.

However, I may be contradicting myself, but the trend is showing, more and more visitors are coming in the summer, in 2017 there was in an increase of 42% from quarter 1 to quarter 3. So maybe in the future, this could be a huge deal, but I say unemployment such as structural and frictional are the norm currently

Please share your opinions on this matter, if you did suffer from seasonal unemployment or would know about it. It would really help me in this assignment,thanks

the_syco

Take Your Pants Off wrote: »

It would really help me in this assignment,thanks

You're looking for help with your homework? Jeez!

But I'll humour you.

Instead of the tourism sector, look at fruit picking. For the most part, it's not something you can do year round in Ireland without the use of greenhouses, so you'll get seasonal fruitpickers.

Now, not so much here, but Brexit may cause the UK to have less seasonal workers from the EU, as they'd have to apply for visas, as opposed to free movement like before.

Looking at http://www.pickingjobs.com/ireland/ I got the following as an example;
Derryvilla, Portarlington, County Offaly
Harvest Time: July - October
Main Crops: Blueberries

wonski

the_syco wrote: »

You're looking for help with your homework? Jeez!

But I'll humour you.

Instead of the tourism sector, look at fruit picking. For the most part, it's not something you can do year round in Ireland without the use of greenhouses, so you'll get seasonal fruitpickers.

Now, not so much here, but Brexit may cause the UK to have less seasonal workers from the EU, as they'd have to apply for visas, as opposed to free movement like before.

Looking at http://www.pickingjobs.com/ireland/ I got the following as an example;
Derryvilla, Portarlington, County Offaly
Harvest Time: July - October
Main Crops: Blueberries

There are no seasonal fruit pickers in Ireland

And even in the season there are greenhouses anyway. There is no climate for berries in Ireland.

Just part time agency workers on 10 hours a week contracts who are already residents.

wench

Take Your Pants Off wrote: »

Even if we do attract more, but only by a couple of thousands. I have put up a table showing the number of visitors to Ireland by each quarter.
Lets take 2015 for example , in quarter 1 and quarter 2, which is usually the lowest time for holidays, 1531 and 2345 visitors came respectively, compared to quarter 3 2771 came, there is not much of an increase.

Those figures are in Thousands, so it is an increase from 1.5million to 2.3million
That 800,000 people is a 50% increase, so of course it will significantly affect the number of employees required to service them.