The equality impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Irish labour market

Abstract

is the first in the 2022-2024 IHREC/ESRI Research programme, but marks the eleventh published report since 2017 under the IHREC/ESRI Irish Human Rights and Equality Research Programme Series. These research reports examine equality and discrimination in Ireland across a wide range of themes and topics including inequality in the labour market, disability, caring and unpaid work, inequality in housing and attitudinal research towards diversity and migration in Ireland.These detailed studies continue to provide us with a better understanding of equality and discrimination in Ireland, expanding the boundaries of existing knowledge and guiding us towards new horizons of insight.On behalf of the Commission, I would like to acknowledge the ESRI and all of the researchers who worked on these studies and to thank you for your significant contribution to knowledge on equality and discrimination in Ireland. Eoin Ronayne, Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission