Using data from a large-scale survey of employees in Ireland, we estimate the extent to which people who have emigrated from Ireland and returned earn more relative to comparable people who have never lived abroad. In so doing, we test the hypothesis that migration can be part of a process of...

This article introduces the recently expanded Residential Mortgage Arrears and Repossessions Statistics published by the Central Bank of Ireland. An overview of developments regarding mortgage arrears since 2009 is provided, and the motivation for expanding the data is outlined. New features of...

It is widely believed that survey-based confidence indicators provide a reasonably accurate picture of economic conditions. This paper examines whether data from the business and consumer surveys conducted for the European Commission might be useful for short-term macroeconomic forecasting....