Browsing by Subject "Emigration"
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The congested districts of Ireland and how to deal with them
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1887)The phrase congested districts has acquired in the discussion of Irish problems an almost technical meaning. By the congested districts I understand to be meant those parts of the country which are unable, at least in their ... -
The economic and social implications of demographic change
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)This Society was founded in the midst of the population crisis caused by the Famine. No crisis on the scale of the Famine occurred again in the Society?s history, but various forms of demographic ?weakness?, such as high ... -
Effects of emigration; can it be made a means of relieving distress?
(Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)Many, for instance, we all know, are now occasionally assisted in our towns by benevolent individuals or associations. How much more effective might not this relief be, if instead of being given in small sums, it were ... -
Emigration and immigration
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1888)Alike in old and new countries there has been, during the last few years, a remarkable revival of interest in the long debated and apparently exhausted problems of emigration and colonization. Many important European ... -
Emigration and rural Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1946)The decline in population in Eire during the past hundred years from 6,950,000 to 2,950,000 (1943) has been accompanied by revolutionary changes in land distribution and tenure and also by striking developments in agricultural ... -
The future population of Saorstat Eireann and some observations on population statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1936)While the principal object of this paper is to place on record the results of a couple of experiments in forecasting population, certain extended digressions have been made into the past (sometimes the distant past) not ... -
Globalisation, Immigration and Diabetes Self-Management: An Empirical Study amongst Immigrants with Type 2 DM in Ireland
(2009)Background: We have previously reported that immigrants in Ireland have poorer glycemic control compared with a matched population of Irish patients. This may be associated with poor diabetes self-care and low health ... -
Handbook on immigration and asylum in Ireland 2007
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The incidence of emigration on town and country life in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1914)To the student of economics Ireland always presents a budget of paradoxes. Things which are abnormal elsewhere are here normal and commonplace. The usual laws of cause and effect may, by an act of faith, be presumed ... -
Ireland in 1864
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)In January, 1862,I had the honour of reading before the Society a short paper called Historical Statistics of Ireland. In it I said, "Ireland is decreasing in wealth and population." The proposition was earnestly ... -
The last hour in the old land
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Migration and the option value of waiting
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1995)Migration is an investment: it involves fixed, unrecoverable costs and uncertain future returns. If migration can be postponed, the option value of doing so may have positive value. Migration may not occur for a range of ... -
Push and stay factors affecting Irish medical student migration intentions
(2017)Background: A significant proportion of medical students in Ireland have demonstrated strong intentions to migrate following their graduation. Factors influencing these intentions are poorly understood. Our study aimed to ... -
A review of the economic and social condition of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1899)Several of my predecessors in the office of President have taken as the subject-matter of their addresses a review of the economic and social condition of Ireland as revealed to us in the statistics furnished by the ... -
Some causes and consequences of the low Irish marriage rate
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1933)In countries more happily circumstanced it is only necessary to trace and to account for the fluctuations of the marriage rate. Here it is not only necessary to discover why more people got married during one period ... -
The golden geese fly the internet: some research issues in the migration of Irish professionals
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1998)A new research agenda is needed for the study of Irish "middle class" emigrants. Globalisation and information technology fragment the identity of the nation state and society. The migration of skilled labour is first and ...
