Are Ireland's Immigrants Integrating into Its Labor Market?
By A. Barrett, D. Duffy. Social Science Research Network, 2008
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Ireland has experienced a remarkable change in its migratory patterns in recent years and has moved from experiencing large-scale emigration to receiving significant inflows. In this paper, we use data from a nationally representative sample of immigrants and natives drawn in 2005 to assess the occupational attainment of immigrants in Ireland relative to natives. It is found that immigrants, on average, are less likely to be in high-level occupations controlling for factors such as age and education. When looked at by year of arrival, it appears as if immigrants who arrived more recently have lower occupational attainment relative to earlier arrivals, thereby suggesting a process of integration. However, a closer analysis shows that the observation of better occupational attainment for earlier arrivals can be explained by a change in the national origin mix of Ireland's immigrants, with immigrants from the New Member States of the European Union having the lowest occupational attainment. Within national groups there is generally no clear evidence of improved occupational attainment over time.
Subfields: Gender Studies, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science
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- Why Family Matters: The Impact of Family Resources on Immigrant Entrepreneurs’ Exit from Entrepreneurship (2016, unknown): “In terms of economic integration, in our paper, we investigated the situation of a formerly unemployed immigrant either remaining in entrepreneurship or alternatively exiting to paid employment (Barrett and Duffy, 2008; Bates, 2011; Hammarstedt, 2009).”
- Occupation–education mismatch of immigrant workers in Europe: Context and policies (2013, background): “This literature examines immigrants' outcomes in terms of wages and return to education [Chiswick, 1978; Borjas, 1994], employment [Wheatley, 1998], and occupational matching [Green, 1999; Amuedo-Dorantes and De la Rica, 2007; Barrett and Duffy, 2008].”
- Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment (2013, unknown): “4 See Kerr & Kerr (2011) for a survey on the wage e ect of immigration in general and Barrett et al. (2006) and Blanch ower & Shadforth (2009)for an analysis of the e ect of the post-EU enlargement immigration on the labour markets in Ireland and the UK.”