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Returns to Skills and Personnel Management: U.S. DoD Scientists and Engineers

Gibbs, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Personnel records are used to examine compensation, recruitment, and retention of a group of very highly skilled … government’s primary plan and two intended to introduce greater flexibility in personnel management. …

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Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures

Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Two ubiquitous empirical regularities in pay distributions are that the variance of wages increases with experience, and innovations in wage residuals have a large, unpredictable component. The leading explanations for these patterns are that over time, either firms learn about worker...

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Culture of Trust and Division of Labor

Meier, Stephan; Stephenson, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Firms exhibit heterogeneity in size, productivity, and internal structure, and this is true even within the same industry. It has been thought since the time of Adam Smith that a firm's internal structure affects its productivity through the channel of gains from specialization. Our paper...

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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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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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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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