paper we examine what has happened to earnings inequality and the returns to education in Ireland between 1987 and 1997. We …

Much research has been conducted on immigration into Ireland in recent years using data from the Quarterly National … Household Survey (QNHS), the official source for labour market data in Ireland. As it is known that the QNHS undercounts … immigrants in Ireland, a concern exists over whether the profile of immigrants being provided is accurate. For example, QNHS …

destinations. In this paper, we analyse the earnings of immigrants in Ireland from the NMS using a new large-scale dataset on … employees in Ireland. In so doing, we add to the emerging strand in the literature on immigrant earnings that looks beyond … determinant of the immigrant-native earnings gap for NMS immigrants in Ireland. …

Ireland, along with Sweden and the UK, allowed full access to its labour market to the citizens of the accession … growth in Ireland around 2004, a significant inflow was expected. However, the rate of inflow exceeded all expectations …. Based on census information, the number of EU10 nationals living in Ireland grew from around 10,000 in 2002 to 120,000 in …

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 are testing …