{"id":60060,"date":"2025-08-11T21:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T21:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/60060\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T21:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T21:27:04","slug":"jump-in-unemployment-dismissed-as-statistical-noise-by-davy-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/60060\/","title":{"rendered":"Jump in unemployment dismissed as \u2018statistical noise\u2019 by Davy \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rise in Ireland\u2019s unemployment rate has been dismissed by Davy stockbrokers as \u201cstatistical noise\u201d.<\/p>\n

The stockbroker also insisted the economy remained close to full employment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The State\u2019s jobless rate climbed to 4.9 per cent in July, up from 4.6 per cent and the highest rate in more than three years, according to figures published last week by the Central Statistics Office<\/a> (CSO).<\/p>\n

The increase comes amid warnings about a potential slowdown triggered by US tariffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The upward revisions, flagged by the CSO, represent \u201ca mainly statistical aspect of the estimation process rather than providing any real-economy signal that Ireland\u2019s labour market conditions have worsened in 2025,\u201d Davy chief economist Kevin Timoney said.<\/p>\n

He noted that the figures incorporated the latest Labour Force Survey, which has not yet been published, and included a new category of unemployment assistance (jobseekers\u2019 pay-related benefit) for the first time. <\/p>\n

\u201cCombined, these factors help to explain the higher unemployment rate estimate, and we expect this will unwind further into [the second half of the year],\u201d Mr Timoney said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn alternative explanation is that high economic policy uncertainty in Ireland and abroad as a result of tariffs has resulted in an increase in the unemployment rate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, we think the statistical factors noted above are more likely to explain the increase,\u201d he added, noting that labour demand in the Irish economy remained strong.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Unemployment climbs to highest rate in more than three yearsOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

\"TheThe State\u2019s jobless rate is now the highest rate in more than three years, according to Central Statistics Office figures. Photograph: Getty Images <\/p>\n

In its report, Davy also blamed softer-than-expected income tax receipts in the latest exchequer returns on \u201cslowing wage growth in high-earning sectors (which contribute the bulk of income tax receipts)\u201d.<\/p>\n

The CSO will publish monthly payroll data on Friday. These are based on real-time Revenue data and are considered one of the more accurate barometers of the Irish labour market.<\/p>\n

Separately, European Central Bank officials are now expected to wait until December to deliver their next interest-rate cut in what is likely to be the final move in the cycle, according to a Bloomberg survey.<\/p>\n

Economists have pushed back expectations for another reduction in borrowing costs by three months, compared to a survey conducted in July. With the deposit rate then landing at 1.75 per cent, they see it remaining there for nine to 10 months before a pickup in demand will likely force them to reverse course.<\/p>\n

Waiting until the final meeting of 2025 would give ECB policymakers the luxury of more time to assess the impact of trade disruption caused by US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

By December, policymakers will have seen how the economy performed in the third quarter, offering a clearer picture of underlying momentum after distortions caused by attempts to front-run US tariffs earlier in the year. \u2013 additional reporting by Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rise in Ireland\u2019s unemployment rate has been dismissed by Davy stockbrokers as \u201cstatistical noise\u201d. The stockbroker also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[84,12015,32490,1371,56,54,55,1908],"class_list":{"0":"post-60060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-central-statistics-office","10":"tag-davy-group","11":"tag-jobs","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-work"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}