The purpose of this paper is twofold. We first produce a labour market profile of nonIrish immigrants who arrived in Ireland in the ten years to 2003. We then go on to use the labour market profile in estimating the impact of immigration (non-Irish) on the Irish labour market. Immigrants are shown to be a highly educated group. However, they are not all employed in occupations that fully reflec...

With one of the largest pools of relatively low wage semi-skilled and skilled labour, India is poised as a critical of global sourcing of labour. How can India take advantage of these future trends, so as not only to maximise the welfare of Indians outside the country, but that of those within the country as well? Can international migration and the diaspora be a strategic asset for the country...

Empirical estimates derived in line with the Marxist framework are essential to fully address several topics, from dynamics of profit and exploitation rates unequal exchange, crisis strategies. Edward Ochoa presented implemented a pioneering practical proposal perform such strand calculations widely available input–output data. That leveraged method has become widespread empirical studies. This...

This study investigates the extent of labour market competition among native Dutch workers and ethnic minorities, using national survey of the SEO and the Population statistics of the CBS. Firstly, the direct e¤ect of immigrants on local labour markets is considered. It is shown that ethnic minorities from developing countries have a positive e¤ect on the earnings of high skilled natives and an...

This paper estimates the impact of UK labour market reforms on UK wages in seven industrial sectors. We estimate real wage equations, disaggregated by industry, and find that the introduction of labour market reforms corresponds with an increase in wage flexibility for some of our sample industries from 1986 onwards. The main findings of this study are as follows: 1. Unemployment only has a sig...

Using qualitative information, this paper studies the labour experiences of a group of skilled Spanish migrants in Mexico City. The paper identifies two types of migrants amongst the interviewed Spaniards: TNCs transferees and “migrants in the middle” (“those who are neither low-skilled migrants nor high-skilled migrants”; Conradson and Latham, 2005a). This somehow challenges assumptions about ...

Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” years saw GDP per capita rise from 60% of the EU average to 120% of the average over the course of the 1990s, with a growth in employment of about 40% over the period 1994-2001. What were the consequences of the boom for returns to education and wage inequality? This paper uses data from the Living in Ireland Survey for 1994, 1997 and 2001 to examine wage inequality, th...

This paper primarily investigates the issue of labour welfare in Indian industries, and seeks to make a contribution to the debate on labour reforms currently underway in India. It investigates the relative importance of technical change, elasticities of substitution, and labour regulations for labour welfare, proxied by the income shares of skilled and unskilled labour in total costs. Three pr...

On the one hand, the Stolper-Samuelson (SS) corollary of the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem predicts that both trade and FDI should take advantage of the abundance of low-skilled labour in DCs and so imply an increasing demand for domestic low skilled labour and hence decreasing within-country wage dispersion and income inequality (Wood, 1994 and 1997; for a critical view, see Milanovic, 2002). On the...

This research paper aims to provide an empirical validation of the impact of human capital accumulation and labour market institutions on productivity growth. The primary objective of this study is to analyse economic and employment growth tendencies in the period between 1985 and 2007 in various OECD member countries. In our estimations we followed a specific taxonomy to identify the features ...