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The economic returns to field of study and competencies among higher education graduates in Ireland

Kelly, Elish; O'Connell, Philip; Smyth, Emer - 2008

This paper looks at the economic returns to different fields of study in Ireland in 2004 and also the value placed on various job-related competencies, accumulated on completion of higher education, in the Irish labour market. In examining these issues the paper seeks to control for potential...

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Exploring international differences in rates of return to education: Evidence from EU SILC

Davia, Maria A.; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Connell, Philip, J. - 2009

This paper uses EU-SILC data from 2005 and 2006 to explore the hypothesis that international differences in rates of return to education reflect variations in the level of risk associated with educational investments. While there was some evidence to support this hypothesis with regards to...

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Changing returns to education during a boom? The case of Ireland

McGuinness, Seamus; McGinnity, Frances; O'Connell, Philip - 2008

Ireland's 'Celtic Tiger' years saw GDP per capita rise from 60% of the EU average to 120% of the average over the course of the 1990s, with a growth in employment of about 40% over the period 1994-2001. What were the consequences of the boom for returns to education and wage inequality? This...

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The association between income inequality and mental health: Social cohesion or social infrastructure?

Layte, Richard; Maître, Bertrand - 2009

A large literature has emerged around the strong association between income inequality and average life expectancy and …-materialist hypothesis'. We examine the ability of these hypotheses to explain the link between income inequality and mental well being in … social protection and the quality of a range of social services reduce the coefficient measuring income inequality by over …

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Labour market mismatch among UK graduates: An analysis using REFLEX data

McGuinness, Seamus; Sloane, Peter J. - 2009

There is much disagreement in the literature over the extent to which graduates are mismatched in the labour market and the reasons for this. In this paper we utilise the Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society (REFLEX) data set to cast light on these issues, based on data for UK...

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Inclusion or diversion in higher education in the Republic of Ireland?

Byrne, Delma - 2009

In this paper I investigate the extent to which the Irish higher education system promotes inclusion or diversion in relation to social selectivity. In doing so, stratification processes are examined for two educational outcomes: inequality in the type of higher education institution attended...

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The determinants and effects of training at work: Bringing the workplace back in

O'Connell, Philip J.; Byrne, Delma - 2009

This paper brings together two research fields: on work-related training and high performance work practices (HPWP), respectively. We estimate models of both the determinants and the impact of training using the NCPP/ESRI Changing Workplace Survey. Our models of the determinants of training...

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Returning to the question of a wage premium for returning migrants

Barrett, Alan; Goggin, Jean - 2009

Using data from a large-scale survey of employees in Ireland, we estimate the extent to which people who have emigrated from Ireland and returned earn more relative to comparable people who have never lived abroad. In so doing, we are testing the hypothesis that migration can be part of a...

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A dynamic analysis of household car ownership in Ireland

Nolan, Anne - 2008

income and previous car ownership to be the strongest determinants of differences in household car ownership. Other important … influences include household composition (in particular, the presence of young children) and lifecycle effects, which create …

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The immigrant earnings disadvantage across the earnings and skills distributions: The case of immigrants from the EU's new member states in Ireland

Barrett, Alan; McGuiness, Séamus; O'Brien, Martin - 2008

As the movement of population from the New Member States (NMS) of the EU to the older members is a relatively new flow, it is important to build up our knowledge of who is moving within Europe and how they are performing in their destinations. In this paper, we analyse the earnings of immigrants...

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