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Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - 2009
We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … suggest that care should be exercised when applying this method as inaccurate impressions of the impact of immigration on … wages may arise. -- Immigration ; Wages ; Ireland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882049
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Immigrants and welfare programmes : exploring the interactions between immigrant characteristics, immigrant welfare dependence and welfare policy
Barrett, Alan (contributor); McCarthy, Yvonne (contributor) - 2008
The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003746746