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A century ago, and for most of the twentieth century, Ireland was a land of emigration, not immigration. However, in … the space of less than a decade in the 2000s, Ireland was transformed from a homogeneous community, where nonnative …
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We use databases we have created from the records of New York's Emigrant Savings Bank, founded by pre-Famine Irish immigrants and their children to serve Famine era immigrants, to study the social mobility of bank customers and, by extension, Irish immigrants more generally. We infer that New...
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Emigrants from Italy and Ireland contributed disproportionately to the Age of Mass Migration. That their departure … spur investment in schooling in source countries. This essay describes the history of emigration from Italy and Ireland …
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Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine was a poor and backward economy. The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s is …
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population census to address these issues for returnees to Ireland from North America more than a century ago. The evidence …
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In this paper, I provide a selective review of Ireland's economic performance of the last 20 years, from the early days … period. I argue, based on a range of observations, that a substantial slowdown was looming for Ireland by 2007, independent … economic policy. The result was a range of policies based on an unwarranted over-optimism which left Ireland terribly exposed …
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We provide a centennial overview of the Irish economy in the one hundred years following partition and independence. A comparative perspective allows us to distinguish between those aspects of Irish policies and performance that were unique to the country, and those which mirrored developments...
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The relationship between recessions and health is mixed, with some evidence from the most recent financial crisis finding a positive effect on heath behaviours. This study uses longitudinal data spanning the periods before, during and after the Irish crisis of 2008, to test the impact of...
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