Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs

Activities and Priorities: Eurofound

3:50 pm

Mr. Juan Menéndez-Valdés:

I can go back to that. First, this is net job creation so we are not counting the migrants. This is analysis based on the data of the labour force survey. These are actual interviews of workers. We are looking at where the net job creation is concentrated and at the moment it is in medium and low-paid jobs. Before and during the crisis it was the highly paid jobs that were very resilient. All the job destruction during the crisis in construction is shown by blue bars going down there. During a wave of recovery it is the same kinds of jobs that we had before. Wages represent one element of job quality - the best jobs have the highest wages - but it is not the only one. Good jobs related to the IT sector in Ireland represent an important share.