Alan Barrett

Research Fellow

ESRI, Dublin

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Alan Barrett is the Director of the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin, Ireland. He joined the ESRI in 1994, upon the completion of his doctoral studies at Michigan State University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin.

His main research interests are in the areas of labour economics and population economics. He has a particular interest in migration and has published on the topic in journals such as Labour Economics, the International Migration Review, the Journal of Population Economics, Economics Letters, and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. He has also written on other labour topics such as training and the distribution of earnings and has published on these topics in outlets such as the British Journal of Industrial Relations and the Industrial and Labor Relations Review.

Between 2011 and 2015, he was a member of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. In 2015, he chaired Ireland's National Economic Dialogue.

He joined IZA as a research fellow in December 1998.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4425
Immigrants and Employer-Provided Training
Alan Barrett, Seamus McGuinness, Martin O`Brien, Philip J. O'Connell
revised version published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2013, 34 (1), 52-78
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4260
EU Enlargement and Ireland's Labour Market
Alan Barrett
published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, Springer: Berlin et al. 2009, 145-161
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3689
Using a Census to Assess the Reliability of a National Household Survey for Migration Research: The Case of Ireland
Alan Barrett, Elish Kelly
published as "How Reliable is the Quarterly National Household Survey for Migration Research?" in: Economic and Social Review, 2008, 39 (3), 191-205
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3494
Immigrants and Welfare Programmes: Exploring the Interactions between Immigrant Characteristics, Immigrant Welfare Dependence and Welfare Policy
Alan Barrett, Yvonne McCarthy
published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2008, 24 (3), 543-560
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3479
The Immigrant Earnings Disadvantage across the Earnings and Skills Distributions: The Case of Immigrants from the EU’s New Member States in Ireland
Alan Barrett, Seamus McGuinness, Martin O`Brien
revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2012, 50 (3), 457-481
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2990
The Earnings of Immigrants in Ireland: Results from the 2005 EU Survey of Income and Living Conditions
Alan Barrett, Yvonne McCarthy
published in: Quarterly Economic Commentary, 2007, 43 - 62
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2838
Are Ireland’s Immigrants Integrating into its Labour Market?
Alan Barrett, David Duffy
revised version published in: International Migration Review, 2008, 42 (3), 597-619
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2457
Immigrants in a Booming Economy: Analysing their Earnings and Welfare Dependence
Alan Barrett, Yvonne McCarthy
published in: Labour, 2007, 21(4), 789-808
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1553
The Labour Market Characteristics and Labour Market Impacts of Immigrants in Ireland
Alan Barrett, Adele Bergin, David Duffy
published in: Economic and Social Review, 2006, 37 (1), 1-26
IZA Discussion Paper No. 167
Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland
Alan Barrett, John FitzGerald, Brian Nolan
published in: Labour Economics, 2002, 9 (5), 665-680
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