Emigration and living standards in Ireland since the Famine

O’Rourke, Kevin

doi:10.1007/bf00180876

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“…Only in Ireland was the investment rate lower. O'Rourke (1995) points out that the labour-market disequilibrium prevailing in Ireland in the 1960s had long historical antecedents. For much of the previous century, in fact, Irish real wages appeared to have been at least as high as in the UK for equivalent occupations, while productivity was likely to have been substantially lower.…”

Section: Integration and Convergence In The Cohesion Countriesmentioning

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Economic Integration and Convergence Processes in the EU Cohesion Countries

Barry

2003

J of Common Market Studies

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This article compares the economic performance of the EU cohesion countries-Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland - from 1960 to the present, in order to identify the processes that have promoted or inhibited real convergence prospects at various points in time. The likely impacts of EMU in strengthening or weakening these processes are then analysed. Amongst the factors studied are labour-market performance, macroeconomic stability and the efficacy of microeconomic policy-making. Copyright (c) Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2003.

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Section: Integration and Convergence In The Cohesion Countriesmentioning

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Economic Integration and Convergence Processes in the EU Cohesion Countries

Barry

2003

J of Common Market Studies

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“…Mishra (2007) fi nds that the vast emigration of Mexicans to in the origin country? Mishra (2007) (Karlström, 1985) and Ireland (Hatton and Williamson, 1993;O'Rourke, 1995). (Karlström, 1985) and Ireland (Hatton and Williamson, 1993;O'Rourke, 1995).…”

Section: Question 2: What Is the Elasticity Of Labor Demand At The Ormentioning

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Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?

Clemens

2011

Journal of Economic Perspectives

456

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What is the greatest single class of distortions in the global economy? One contender for this title is the tightly binding constraints on emigration from poor countries. Vast numbers of people in low-income countries want to emigrate from those countries but cannot. How large are the economic losses caused by barriers to emigration? Research on this question has been distinguished by its rarity and obscurity, but the few estimates we have should make economists' jaws hit their desks. The gains to eliminating migration barriers amount to large fractions of world GDP—one or two orders of magnitude larger than the gains from dropping all remaining restrictions on international flows of goods and capital. When it comes to policies that restrict emigration, there appear to be trillion-dollar bills on the sidewalk.

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“…The Irish famine of the mid-1800s initiated a prodigious emigration from Ireland to the New World and contributed to a population decline of 3.8 million people in Ireland between1845 and 1911 (O’Rourke, 1995). At least a quarter of San Francisco’s population in 1870 was Irish-born (Dezell, 2001).…”

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Cultural Factors Related to Smoking in San Francisco's Irish Bars

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California’s Smoke-Free Workplace Act was extended to include bars in 1998. While the majority of bars in the state have become smoke free, in many bars patrons and staff continue to smoke despite the law. The authors present findings from a study which assessed cultural factors related to continued smoking in bars in the city of San Francisco. In bars serving primarily Irish migrants, tight-knit relations within the local Irish bar community together with a reluctance to be the first Irish bar to ban smoking were found to contribute to continued indoor smoking. The findings illustrate challenges to implementing tobacco control policies within ethnic subpopulations and particularly highlight the importance of considering how cultural dynamics within subpopulations may help or hinder such policies.

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Emigration and living standards in Ireland since the Famine

Cited by 25 publications

References 27 publications

Economic Integration and Convergence Processes in the EU Cohesion Countries

Economic Integration and Convergence Processes in the EU Cohesion Countries

Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?

Cultural Factors Related to Smoking in San Francisco's Irish Bars

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