an article by Alan Barrett and Séamus McGuinness (Economic and Social Research Institute) and Martin O'Brien (Central Bank of Ireland) published in British Journal of Industrial Relations Volume 50 Issue 3 (September 2012)
Abstract
We analyse the earnings of immigrants from the EU’s new member states (NMS) using a large-scale dataset with information on employees in Ireland.
We find that the average earnings difference between these immigrants and natives is between 10 and 18 per cent, depending on the controls used.
However, the difference is found to be lower for people at the lower end of the earnings distribution. It is also generally lower for people at the lower end of the education distribution.
We find mixed evidence on whether unions have an impact on the wages of immigrants from the NMS, although such immigrants appear to suffer a wage penalty as a result of being in firms that provided training to a significant proportion of their workforce.
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