Relation Between Lack of Education, Unemployment and Age Amongst Males. ESRI Memorandum Series No. 129 1978

There are too many in unskilled occupations in Ireland. The object of the present chapter is to show that this is so, to try to discover the reasons for it and to make suggestions for its mitigation. This formulation will naturally lead unto some study of education and training. In the three unskilled occupations of Table 1 there were 127,500 persons of whom 30,900 were out of work on Census date 18 April 1971, i.e. nearly a quarter. The 1971 Census was the last taken but suits our purpose well enough as representing the situation for a more or less normal modern date, i.e. well before the recent recession