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This paper explores the characteristics associated with marriages between Roman Catholics and members of other religious denominations ('mixed marriages') in 1911 Ireland. Using the recently-digitized returns of the 1911 census of population, we find that such marriages were relatively rare,...
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This paper surveys publications in the fields of economic history and demography in the ESR since 1969. Numbering sixty in all, they cover a broad chronological and thematic range. Some of these papers never attracted much notice, but stand as useful sources for future historians. A few have...
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model of skilled immigration policy. Our estimates suggest unambiguously smaller beneficial impacts of increasing the … Canadian immigrants to innovation is, in large part, explained by the low employment rates of Canadian STEM-educated immigrants …
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I investigate the effects of population ageing on immigration policies. Voters' attitude towards immigrants depends on … how the net gains from immigration are divided up in the society by the fiscal policy. In the theoretical literature this … between immigration and fiscal policies and solve this apparent inconsistency. I show that the elderly and the poor have a …
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Automated census linkage algorithms have become popular for generating longitudinal data on social mobility, especially for immigrants and their children. But what if these algorithms are particularly bad at tracking immigrants? Using nineteenth-century Irish immigrants as a test case, we...
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increase immigration in the coming years to per capita levels not reached since the 1920s. We argue that economic immigration … examine the potential for increases in Canadian immigration levels to achieve this objective. Our analysis suggests that … Canada is not well-positioned to leverage heightened immigration to boost GDP per capita owing primarily to weak capital …
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of labour market attachment, such as participation, employment and wages, but also novel measures of labour market … effect. Results show that immigrant women are less likely to transition into employment - more likely to transition out of … employment to either unemployment or inactivity - and more likely to respond to income shocks than the Canadian born. There is …
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for the broader literature on immigration and crime which considers only crimes per capita or variants thereof, but never …
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A century ago, and for most of the twentieth century, Ireland was a land of emigration, not immigration. However, in … immigration and attitudes towards immigrants in the very different Irelands of a century ago and of the present. …
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Irish attitudes to immigration is of more than parochial interest. In this paper we use the six rounds of the European …
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