Browsing Economic and Social Review by Subject "Wages"

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    • Benchmarking, social partnership and higher remuneration: wage settling institutions and the public-private sector wage gap in Ireland 

      Kelly, Elish; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Connell, Philip (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)
      This paper uses data from the 2003 and 2006 National Employment Surveys to analyse the public-private sector wage gap in Ireland. In particular, we investigate the impact of awards implemented under a number of wage setting ...

    • Estimating the impact of immigration on wages in Ireland 

      Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 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 ...

    • Foreign ownership and wages in British establishments 

      Velde, Dirk Willem te (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      This paper uses the 1990-1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS) panel data set to show that foreign establishments in Britain pay 13 per cent higher wages than domestic establishments. However, the differential ...

    • ?Insufficient for the support of a family?: wages on the public works during the Great Irish Famine 

      McGregor, Pat (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      This paper presents a model of the money wage paid on the public works during the Irish Famine. The administrators are assumed to minimise a cost function that includes the divergence from the target as well as the increase ...

    • Is there a wage premium for returning Irish migrants? 

      Barrett, Alan; O'Connell, Philip J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 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 ...

    • Segmented labour markets and earnings in Ireland 

      Hughes, Gerard; Nolan, Brian (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1997)
      Segmented labour market theory rests on two central tenets. The first is that it is meaningful to distinguish between primary labour markets providing "good" jobs with high wages and stable employment and secondary labour ...

    • Why are productivity and wages higher in foreign firms? 

      Girma, Sourafel; Thompson, Steve; Wright, Peter W. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      This paper uses a panel data framework to examine whether foreign firms in the UK have higher levels of productivity and set higher wage rates than domestic ones ceteris paribus, or whether this is due to unmeasured ...