Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Monday, August 19, 2019

18/8/19: Migration Policy vs the Law of Unintended Consequences

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President Trump's policies are a rich field for sowing evidence on the application of the law of unintended consequence in economic po...
Friday, June 14, 2019

14/6/19: The Real U.S. Migration Crisis is Not at the Border, but at Home

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I recently wrote about the new data from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol on crime amongst the illegal and legal immigrants in the U.S. ...
Sunday, December 30, 2018

29/12/18: It pains me to no end to see America being reduced to this...

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I am not a psychologist or psychiatrist. I am not even a sociologist. So my comments below are based simply on my observations as a human ...
Friday, February 23, 2018

23/2/18: Ireland's Migration Policies are Working Well

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How to do immigration policy right? Ireland's CSO has published some new data on educational attainment in Ireland, covering 2017 resu...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

28/9/17: Irish Migration: Some Good News in 2017

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While headline figures for net migration to Ieland paint an overall positive picture in the annual data (provided on April-April basis) ...
Friday, April 21, 2017

21/4/17: Any evidence that immigrants are undermining welfare of the natives?

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Given current debates surrounding the impact of migrant labour on native (and previously arriving migrants) wages, jobs security, career p...
Monday, May 25, 2015

25/5/15: Immigration and Entrepreneurship: Major Unknowns

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A recent CESIfo study looked at the role of immigrants in driving entrepreneurship. Per authors: "Immigrants are widely perceived a...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

25/12/2014: Skilled Immigration and Employment in the U.S.

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There is a persistent debate in economics about the effects of migration of the highly-skilled workers on employment prospects and careers...
Friday, March 7, 2014

7/3/2014: How are cohorts of immigrants changing?.. 2002-2012 data

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This week, CSO published 2012 data on PPSN numbers and employment status of immigrants. The data is telling, makes for uncomfortable readi...
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Friday, October 26, 2012

26/10/2012: Few interesting links

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Some links on recent studies of interest Two hugely important studies from the Kauffman Foundation on the role of immigration in entrepre...
Sunday, February 7, 2010

Economics 07/02/2010: Human Capital, Immigrants and Social safety Nets

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A very interesting piece of research that tends to support my view that higher minimum wages and more extensive welfare nets / social servic...
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Sunday, January 11, 2009

A foreigner? We are not too welcoming in our Public Sector...

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Few months back I was invited to a presentation by the Immigrant Council of Ireland, attended amongst others by a senior civil servant in ch...