Purpose: This paper addresses the labour market impacts of Covid-19, the necessity of active labour policy reform in response to this pandemic unemployment crisis and what trajectory this reform is likely to take as countries shift attention from emergency income supports to stimulating employment recovery Design/methodology/approach: The study draws on Ireland’s experience, as an illustrative case This is motivated by the scale of Covid-related unemployment in Ireland, which is partly a function of strict lockdown measures but also the policy choices made in relation to the architecture of income supports Also, Ireland was one of the countries most impacted by the Great Recession leading it to introduce sweeping reforms of its active labour policy architecture Findings: The analysis shows that the Covid unemployment crisis has far exceeded that of the last financial and banking crisis in Ireland Moreover, Covid has also exposed the fragility of Ireland's recovery from the Great Recession and the fault-lines of poor public services, which intensify precarity in the context of low-paid employment growth precipitated by workfare policies implemented since 2010 While these policies had some short-term success in reducing the numbers on the Live Register, many cohorts were left behind by the reforms and these employment gains have now been almost entirely eroded Originality/value: The lessons from Ireland's experience of post-crisis activation reform speak to the challenges countries now face in adapting their welfare systems to facilitate a post-Covid recovery, and the risks of returning to “workfare” as usual © 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited

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工作量减少吗？爱尔兰的大流行性失业，劳动力激活和危机后的福利改革的教训

目的：本文探讨了Covid-19劳动力市场的影响，为应对这场大流行的失业危机而积极进行劳动政策改革的必要性，以及随着各国将注意力从紧急收入支持转移到刺激就业复苏而这一改革可能采取的方向设计/方法/方法：该研究借鉴了爱尔兰的经验，这是一个说明性案例，其动机是与Covid相关的爱尔兰大规模失业，这部分是严格的锁定措施的功能，也是与建筑相关的政策选择此外，爱尔兰还是受大萧条影响最大的国家之一，导致爱尔兰对其积极的劳动政策体系进行了全面改革。分析表明，Covid的失业危机已经远远超过了上次爱尔兰的金融危机和金融危机。此外，Covid还暴露了爱尔兰从大衰退中复苏的脆弱性以及公共服务不佳的缺点，这加剧了爱尔兰的不稳定性。自2010年以来实施的工作福利政策助推了低薪就业增长的背景尽管这些政策在短期内减少了Live Register的人数方面取得了一些成功，但许多人却被改革抛在了后面，这些就业机会现在几乎全部独创性/价值受到侵蚀：爱尔兰从危机后激活改革中获得的经验教训，说明了各国现在在调整福利体系以促进科维德后复兴方面面临的挑战，和照常返回“工作岗位”的风险©2020，Emerald Publishing Limited