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  • An analysis of the journal article output of Irish-based economists, 1970 to 2001 

    Barrett, Alan; Lucey, Brian M. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2003)
    This paper provides, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of the journal article output of Irish-based economists over a thirty-year period. Using EconLit data, and supplementing where necessary, we provide details ...

  • Denis Conniffe – An Obituary 

    Barrett, Alan; Connolly, John; Spencer, John (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2011)

  • Estimating the impact of immigration on wages in Ireland 

    Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2011)
    We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas (2003). Under this method, the labour market is divided into a number of skill cells, where the cells are ...

  • How reliable is the Quarterly National Household Survey for migration research? 

    Barrett, Alan; Kelly, Elish (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2008)
    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 ...

  • Income and wealth in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing 

    O'Sullivan, Vincent; Nolan, Brian; Barrett, Alan; Dooley, Cara (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2014)
    Between 2009 and 2011, data were collected under the first wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Over 8,500 people aged 50 and over and living in Ireland were interviewed about a wide range of topics ...

  • Is there a wage premium for returning Irish migrants? 

    Barrett, Alan; O'Connell, Philip J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2001)
    Higher rates of economic growth in recent years have led Ireland from being a country characterised by emigration to one where population inflows have become an important issue. This paper contains an analysis of one ...

  • The labour market characteristics and labour market impacts of immigrants in Ireland 

    Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Duffy, David (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2006)
    The purpose of this paper is twofold. We first produce a labour market profile of non- Irish immigrants who arrived in Ireland in the ten years to 2003. We then go on to use the labour market profile in estimating the ...