outsourcing. The empirical analysis uses unique plant level data for the electronics sector in Ireland. A particular feature of … activities. We distinguish outsourcing of materials from outsourcing of services inputs. We find that plants that are … substantially larger than the mean employment size benefit from outsourcing materials and services inputs, while this does not …

We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic … outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … innovative activity at the plant level. Such a positive effect can also be observed for domestic outsourcing of services, but the …

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 …

We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas …

In the mid 2000s Ireland experienced a large inflow of immigrants, partly in response to strong economic growth but … 2004 and 2007, the proportion of non-nationals living in Ireland almost doubled, increasing from 7.7 to 13.1 percent …. Between 2008 and 2009, Ireland experienced one of the most acute downturns in economic activity in the industrialised world …