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Surviving the Crisis: Foreign Multinationals vs Domestic Firms in Ireland

Godart, Olivier; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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

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Health and Well-Being in the Crisis

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...

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Fiscal Consolidation in Reformed and Unreformed Labour Markets: A Look at EU Countries

Turrini, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper estimates the impact of fiscal consolidation on unemployment and job market flows across EU countries using a recent database of consolidation episodes built on the basis of a “narrative” approach (Devries et al., 2011). Results show that the impact of fiscal consolidation on...

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Ireland's Recession and the Immigrant/Native Earnings Gap

Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish; McGuinness, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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

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Using a Census to Assess the Reliability of a National Household Survey for Migration Research: The Case of Ireland

Barrett, Alan; Kelly, Elish - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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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Is There a Wage Premium for Returning Irish Migrants?

Barrett, Alan; O’Connell, Philip J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

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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Immigrants in a Booming Economy: Analysing their Earnings and Welfare Dependence

Barrett, Alan; McCarthy, Yvonne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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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The Earnings of Immigrants in Ireland: Results from the 2005 EU Survey of Income and Living Conditions

Barrett, Alan; McCarthy, Yvonne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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 …

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The Immigrant Earnings Disadvantage across the Earnings and Skills Distributions: The Case of Immigrants from the EU’s New Member States in Ireland

Barrett, Alan; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Brien, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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. …

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Immigrants and Welfare Programmes: Exploring the Interactions between Immigrant Characteristics, Immigrant Welfare Dependence and Welfare Policy

Barrett, Alan; McCarthy, Yvonne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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. …

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