data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …

destinations. In this paper, we analyse the earnings of immigrants in Ireland from the NMS using a new large-scale dataset on … employees in Ireland. In so doing, we add to the emerging strand in the literature on immigrant earnings that looks beyond … determinant of the immigrant-native earnings gap for NMS immigrants in Ireland. …

In the mid 2000s Ireland experienced a large inflow of immigrants, partly in response to strong economic growth but … 2004 and 2007, the proportion of non-nationals living in Ireland almost doubled, increasing from 7.7 to 13.1 percent …. Between 2008 and 2009, Ireland experienced one of the most acute downturns in economic activity in the industrialised world …

Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries …

Since 2004, Ireland has included in its system of social welfare payments criteria for receipt which limit the extent …

in Ireland. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined between 2006 and 2011, while the rate from … unemployment, but at the same time they have a lower risk of becoming unemployed. Education has become an increasingly important … impact of long-term unemployment appears to have fallen substantially in Ireland post-recession. The results from a …

The economic collapse was more severe in Ireland relative to elsewhere. Many questions have arisen concerning the …

Ireland has experienced a remarkable change in its migratory patterns in recent years and has moved from experiencing … of immigrants and natives drawn in 2005 to assess the occupational attainment of immigrants in Ireland relative to … as age and education. When looked at by year of arrival, it appears as if immigrants who arrived more recently have lower …

in Ireland in the ten years to 2003. We then go on to use the labour market profile in estimating the impact of … employed in occupations that fully reflect their education levels. The model of the labour market that we use to simulate the … immigrants (a) if they were employed at a level fitting their education and (b) if they were employed in occupations below their …

issues by looking at immigrant welfare use in Ireland and the UK. Immigrants in the UK appear to use welfare more intensively … than natives but the opposite appears to be the case in Ireland. …