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Chau, Nancy H.; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - 2009

In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a fair-trade premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This paper...

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Inequality, poverty and development : with an application to Fiji

Kanbur, Ravi - 1986

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How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality?

Haddad, Lawrence James - 1989

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Irish Migration: Characteristics, Causes and Consequences

Barrett, Alan - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to review what has been learnt about Irish migration from the work of social scientists, largely economists. For most of its modern history, Ireland has experienced large net outflows. I discuss how the outflow was made up of lower skilled people up until the 1980s...

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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 - 2007

This paper has three objectives. First, a review of the developing body of work on the economics of immigration in 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...

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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 - 2008

As the movement of population from the New Member States (NMS) of the EU to the older members is a relatively new flow, it is important to build up our knowledge of who is moving within Europe and how they are performing in their destinations. In this paper, we analyse the earnings of immigrants...

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Childhood sexual abuse and later-life economic consequences

Barrett, Alan; Kamiya, Yumiko - 2012

The impact of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) on later-life health outcomes has been studied extensively and links with … lower incomes. These effects remain even when we control for mental health difficulties and negative health behaviors. Among …

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Income and Wealth in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing

O'Sullivan, Vincent; Nolan, Brian; Barrett, Alan - 2013

and health issues. Our primary goals in this paper are (a) to present details on two of the variables which will be of … particular interest to economists, namely income and wealth and (b) to discuss issues in relation to their use, in particular … with respect to missing data. We describe how the income and wealth data were collected. We assess the quality of the …

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Income and Wealth in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing

O'Sullivan, Vincent; Nolan, Brian; Barrett, Alan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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The Wealth, Health and Wellbeing of Ireland's Older People Before and During the Economic Crisis

Barrett, Alan; O'Sullivan, Vincent - 2013

collapses and movements in variables such as health and well-being. Using nationally-representative samples of older people … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about … recessions do not have widespread negative effects on health and well-being. …

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