Leaving Cert Economics: Labour Market, Employment & Unemployment questions

The labour market, wage determination, and the level and types of employment/unemployment (micro labour-market theory and macro employment outcomes together).

41 past Economics questions on this topic, spanning 2015 to 2025, grouped by year. Every question opens on the exact page of the official paper, with its marking scheme beside it.

Labour Market, Employment & Unemployment question pack

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2025 · 2 questions

Q6

price floor

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Q1475 marks

demand and supply, price elasticity of demand

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2024 · 2 questions

Q212 marks

economic aims

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Q412 marks

capital widening, capital deepening, marginal efficiency of capital

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2023 · 2 questions

Q1175 marks

population, factors of production, human development index

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Q1475 marks

cost-benefit analysis, trade protection

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2022 · 1 question

Q1475 marks

costs of production, inflation

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2021 · 1 question

Q1675 marks

homelessness

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2020 · 3 questions

Q375 marks

multinational companies

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Q316 marks

government policy

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Q717 marks
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2019 · 5 questions

Q216 marks
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Q475 marks

costs of production, marginal cost, marginal revenue product

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Q675 marks

composite price index, inflation, national competitiveness

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Q717 marks

national debt, economic indicators

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Q917 marks

ageing population, government policy

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2018 · 2 questions

Q475 marks

economies of scale, diseconomies of scale

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Q817 marks

retirement age, public sector

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2017 · 1 question

Q216 marks

quasi-rent, bond valuation, capital widening

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2016 · 5 questions

Q375 marks
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Q316 marks
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Q575 marks

national income multiplier, marginal propensity to save, gross domestic product

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Q516 marks

government policy

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Q917 marks

inflation

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2015 · 1 question

Q675 marks

consumer price index, deflation

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Labour Market, Employment & Unemployment question pack

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2025 · 1 question

Q1375 marks

costs of production, multinational companies

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2024 · 1 question

Q1275 marks

scarcity

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2023 · 2 questions

Q1

data interpretation

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2022 · 2 questions

Q515 marks
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Q615 marks

data

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2021 · 2 questions

Q1015 marks

public and private sector

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Q1375 marks

fiscal policy, monetary policy, deflation

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2019 · 1 question

Q375 marks
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2018 · 2 questions

Q375 marks

factors of production, costs and revenue

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Q875 marks

retirement, homelessness

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2017 · 1 question

Q375 marks

factors of production, public and private sector, emigration

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2016 · 2 questions

Q375 marks

enterprise, factors of production

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Q575 marks

taxation, usc

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2015 · 2 questions

Q375 marks

costs of production, entrepreneurship

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Q817 marks

emigration, brain drain

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