Employment stability and decent work: Trends, characteristics and determinants in a liberal market economy

It is often assumed that the ideological dominance of neoliberalism has profoundly altered job security and long-term employment relationships. Such claims a more unstable insecure jobs market in twenty-first century are focus this paper. Using Labour Force Survey data stability private sector over than 20 years Ireland examined. As liberal economy, represents fitting context which to examine issue given it one world's most globalised economies among severely affected by global financial crisis. Assertions labour not main supported our findings. Reasons suggested for persistence stable regime continued strategic institutional role trade unions influencing regulation, interest employers retaining skilled employees. However, emergence challenging economic conditions since pandemic may challenge union capacity employer support such stability.