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 …

Ireland is provided. Second, the analysis undertaken by Barrett and McCarthy (forthcoming) of earnings of immigrants in … Ireland is updated. Third, the earnings of immigrant women are assessed to see if they experience a "double disadvantage …

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. …

paper we examine what has happened to earnings inequality and the returns to education in Ireland between 1987 and 1997. We … increase appears to be related to an increased demand for skilled labour and an increase in the returns to education. In this …

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 …

. Using data from a large scale survey of employees in Ireland, we find that immigrants are less likely to receive training …

QNHS does indeed provide a reliable picture and that earlier findings on the education levels of immigrants in Ireland hold. …Much research has been conducted on immigration into Ireland in recent years using data from the Quarterly National … Household Survey (QNHS), the official source for labour market data in Ireland. As it is known that the QNHS undercounts …

Higher rates of economic growth in recent years have led Ireland from being a country characterised by emigration to … compare the wages of returned migrants with the wages of those who stayed in Ireland. In a recent paper, it has been argued … find support for this argument for men. On average, returning males earn 10 percent more than men who stayed in Ireland …