Nolan, Brian(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-03)
The well-being of immigrant youth — of the first or second generation — is intimately tied up with their socio-economic status and success; in turn, their success and how immigrant youth relate to the society around them ...
On the basis of a re-examination of the different statistical series of post-Famine Irish emigration, this paper finds (1) that the total outflow was larger than the figures for total emigration allow, and (2) that permanent ...
Fanning, Bryan(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
This paper emphasises how post-1950s Irish developmentalism fostered the economic,
social and political acceptance of large-scale immigration following EU enlargement
in 2004. It argues that economic imperatives alone ...
We examine what has happened to earnings inequality and the returns to education in Ireland between 1987 and 1997. We find that while both increased between 1987 and 1994, the increases slowed dramatically between 1994 and ...