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Much is known about private returns to education in the form of higher earnings. Less is known about social value, over and above the private, market value. Associations between education and socially-desirable outcomes are strong, but disentangling the effect of education from other causal...
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Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP to avoid power outages. Experience significantly increases and a cheap talk script decreases the...
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The economic collapse was more severe in Ireland relative to elsewhere. Many questions have arisen concerning the …
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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 … immigrants in Ireland, a concern exists over whether the profile of immigrants being provided is accurate. For example, QNHS …
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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 …
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Ireland’s exceptional economic growth in recent years has led to an influx of immigrants. Given the favourable economic … nationally representative sample drawn in 2004 are used to assess the earnings of immigrants in Ireland relative to the native …
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Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries …
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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 … origin mix of Ireland’s immigrants, with immigrants from the New Member States of the European Union having the lowest …
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in Ireland in the ten years to 2003. We then go on to use the labour market profile in estimating the impact of … 3.5 and 3.7%, largely by lowering skilled wages by around 6% and increasing Ireland’s competitiveness. Under scenario (b …
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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 …
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