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EU Enlargement and Ireland's Labour Market

Barrett, Alan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Ireland than would otherwise have been the case as a result of the labour supply increase brought about by this immigration …

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Can Immigrants Help Women "Have it All"? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions

Furtado, Delia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...

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Immigrant Labor, Child-Care Services, and the Work-Fertility Trade-Off in the United States

Furtado, Delia; Hock, Heinrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

-skilled immigration has driven down wages in the US child-care sector. More affordable child-care has, in turn, increased the fertility of …

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Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows

Furtado, Delia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the childcare industry, this paper examines whether...

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The Psychic Costs of Migration: Evidence from Irish Return Migrants

Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Within the economics literature, the "psychic costs" of migration have been incorporated into theoretical models since Sjaastad (1962). However, the existence of such costs has rarely been investigated in empirical papers. In this paper, we look at the psychic costs of migration using alcohol...

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Social Isolation, Loneliness and Return Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults

Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Across the subjects of economics, sociology and demography, much has been written about the difficulties faced by immigrants. However, much less attention has been paid to the re-adjustment challenges migrants face on their return. In this paper, we examine whether and the extent to which a...

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Interethnic Marriages and their Economic Effects

Furtado, Delia; Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Immigrants who marry outside of their ethnicity tend to have better economic outcomes than those who marry within ethnicity. It is difficult, however, to interpret this relationship because individuals with stronger preferences for ethnic endogamy are likely to differ in unobserved ways from...

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Interethnic Marriage: A Choice between Ethnic and Educational Similarities

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the effects of education on intermarriage, and specifically whether the mechanisms through which education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation, age at arrival, and race. We consider three main paths through which education affects marriage choice. First,...

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Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland

Barrett, Alan; FitzGerald, John; Nolan, Brian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

somewhat surprising as the exceptional growth in the Irish economy occurred from 1994 on. We look to immigration as being a … simulation suggests that immigration did indeed reduce earnings inequality. This result is an interesting corollary to work from … the US that shows the immigration of unskilled workers increasing earnings inequality. …

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Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland

Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … suggest that care should be exercised when applying this method as inaccurate impressions of the impact of immigration on …

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