Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare the rates of receipt of welfare for immigrants and natives in Ireland … Living Conditions for 2008, also published data on the numbers of people claiming unemployment related payments in Ireland … indication of the length of time an immigrant has been in Ireland, the authors are unable to assess whether the observed patterns …

sector in Ireland, and compare our results with recent findings for Portuguese manufacturing industries (Mata and Machado …In this paper we provide empirical evidence on the determinants of firm start-up size using data for the manufacturing …

Since 2004, Ireland has included in its system of social welfare payments criteria for receipt which limit the extent …