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I discuss the application of capture-recapture methods to estimating the total number of deaths in armed conflicts, and propose an alternative method based on a trivariate discrete choice model. Data come from the 'Truth and Reconciliation Commission' (TRC) of Peru, around 25000 deaths,...
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We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
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This paper consists of two parts focusing on the immigrant’s decision to acquire Canadian citizenship, and her subsequent performance as a taxpayer and recipient of public finance transfers. Our results support the view that selectivity bias appears in Canadian immigrant citizenship decisions...
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This paper analyzes the impact of a recent recommendation made by Quebec's Comité consultatif de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket Measure (MBM). Workers with earnings at least equivalent to...
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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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