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Ireland, along with Sweden and the UK, allowed full access to its labour market to the citizens of the accession countries when the EU enlarged in May 2004. Given the limited number of countries that opened up and the rapid pace of economic growth in Ireland around 2004, a significant inflow was...
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The purpose of this paper is to review what has been learnt about Irish migration from the work of social scientists …-scale outflows. While some have argued that the low level of development was partly a consequence of emigration, other work has shown … that emigration helped to improve Irish living standards. I end with the observation that the research agenda is now …
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Within the economics literature, the psychic costs of migration have been incorporated into theoretical models since … at the psychic costs of migration using alcohol problems as an indicator. Rather than comparing immigrants and natives …
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Across the subjects of economics, sociology and demography, much has been written about the difficulties faced by immigrants. However, much less attention has been paid to the re-adjustment challenges migrants face on their return. In this paper, we examine whether and the extent to which a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282455
Within the economics literature, the "psychic costs" of migration have been incorporated into theoretical models since … at the psychic costs of migration using alcohol problems as an indicator. Rather than comparing immigrants and natives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646331
Across the subjects of economics, sociology and demography, much has been written about the difficulties faced by immigrants. However, much less attention has been paid to the re-adjustment challenges migrants face on their return. In this paper, we examine whether and the extent to which a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646334
Ireland, along with Sweden and the UK, allowed full access to its labour market to the citizens of the accession countries when the EU enlarged in May 2004. Given the limited number of countries that opened up and the rapid pace of economic growth in Ireland around 2004, a significant inflow was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030896
A growing literature within economics has sought to examine the impacts of emigration on sending countries. Some of the … studies have looked within families and have investigated how emigration affects those family members who are left behind. In …) and 2012-13 (Wave 2). To deal with the endogeneity of migration, we apply fixed effects estimation models and control for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352316
A growing literature within economics has sought to examine the impacts of emigration on sending countries. Some of the … studies have looked within families and have investigated how emigration affects those family members who are left behind. In …) and 2012-13 (Wave 2). To deal with the endogeneity of migration, we apply fixed effects estimation models and control for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884171
Increasing earnings inequality has been an important feature of the US and UK labour markets in recent years. The increase appears to be related to an increased demand for skilled labour and an increase in the returns to education. In this paper we examine what has happened to earnings...
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