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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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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/10003902434
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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
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy : Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118275
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Immigrant Welfare Receipt Across Europe
Barrett, Alan - 2011
The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a range of European countries. Using the European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129906
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Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland
Barrett, Alan - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155476
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Immigrants and Welfare Programmes : Exploring the Interactions between Immigrant Characteristics, Immigrant Welfare Dependence and Welfare Policy
Barrett, Alan; McCarthy, Yvonne - 2021
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/10013325232
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The Immigrant Earnings Disadvantage Across the Earnings and Skills Distributions : The Case of Immigrants from the EU's New Member States in Ireland
Barrett, Alan; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Brien, Martin - 2021
As the movement of population from the New Member States (NMS) of the EU to the older members is a relatively new flow, it is important to build up our knowledge of who is moving within Europe and how they are performing in their destinations. In this paper, we analyse the earnings of immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325241
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Populism and the skill-content of globalization : evidence from the last 60 years
Docquier, Frédéric; Guichard, Lucas; Iandolo, Stefano; … - 2022
investigate the ”global” determinants of populism, we look at trade and immigration jointly and consider their size as well as …-industrialization and of internet expansion. Low-skill immigration, on the other hand, tends to induce a transfer of votes from left-wing to … well as high-skill immigration, tend to reduce the volume of populism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013440433
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Does birthplace diversity affect economic complexity? : cross-country evidence
Bahar, Dany; Rapoport, Hillel; Turati, Riccardo - 2019
We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that birthplace diversity is strongly and positively associated with economic complexity. This holds particularly for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124851