We study the effects of peers on school achievement, with detailed data on children making the same primary to … secondary school transition in consecutive years in England. Our estimates show that secondary school composition, on entry at … age 12, affects achievement at age 14, although the effect sizes are small. These secondary school peer effects originate …

1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This program …

primary schools and neighbourhoods on adult educational attainment controlling for family characteristics. Instead of … extending the mandatory years of education, can explain this pattern. We find some effect of the primary school reform on the …

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

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 …

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 …, controlling for education and years of work experience. However, this single figure hides differences across immigrants from …

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

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 …