Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …. On the other hand, positive effects on the growth rate of productivity are found as a result of both types of offshoring …

This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the total effects of famine in China on marital behavior of famine … show that the famine reduced the marital attractiveness of the famine-born cohort. The conclusion is that the small … observed changes in marriage rates of the famine born cohort are due to a significant decline in marital attractiveness. …

. However, most of this labor is informal and characterized by low productivity: permanent wage jobs in the private sector …. These are likely to prevent the efficient allocation of human resources, and to reduce the overall productivity of the …

paper we examine what has happened to earnings inequality and the returns to education in Ireland between 1987 and 1997. We …

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 …

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. …

Ireland, along with Sweden and the UK, allowed full access to its labour market to the citizens of the accession … growth in Ireland around 2004, a significant inflow was expected. However, the rate of inflow exceeded all expectations …. Based on census information, the number of EU10 nationals living in Ireland grew from around 10,000 in 2002 to 120,000 in …

Using data from a large-scale survey of employees in Ireland, we estimate the extent to which people who have emigrated … from Ireland and returned earn more relative to comparable people who have never lived abroad. In so doing, we are testing …