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paper we examine what has happened to earnings inequality and the returns to education in Ireland between 1987 and 1997. We …
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(TILDA). This is a nationally representative sample of individuals aged 50 and over and living in Ireland. To deal with …
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A feature of employment at older ages that has been observed in many countries, including Ireland, is the higher share … Ageing (TILDA), spanning the period 2010-2016, to examine both the characteristics of the older self-employed in Ireland and …-employed people at older ages in Ireland results from lower retirement rates among the self-employed and not from transitions from …
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Extending working lives is often proposed as one route through which the costs associated with population ageing can be managed. In that context, understanding who currently works for longer can help policymakers to design policies to facilitate longer working. In particular, it is important to...
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This paper applies the familiar theoretical distinction between general and specific training to the empirical task of estimating the returns to in-company training. Using a firm-level dataset which distinguishes between general and specific training, we test for the relative effects of the two...
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, largely economists. For most of its modern history, Ireland has experienced large net outflows. I discuss how the outflow was … work that has been done exploring the causes of the outflow. Generally, the low level of economic development in Ireland …
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Higher rates of economic growth in recent years have led Ireland from being a country characterised by emigration to … compare the wages of returned migrants with the wages of those who stayed in Ireland. In a recent paper, it has been argued … find support for this argument for men. On average, returning males earn 10 percent more than men who stayed in Ireland …
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