Those funds helped finance road improvements and other upgrades and became another lure for businesses. The flow of EU funds is changing now that Ireland has the biggest budget surplus in Europe. We ve moved from a vicious to a virtuous cycle, said David Duffy, an economist at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin. Youth is served Today, more than 1,500 Irish natives working abroad move home each month. Many of them are entrepreneurs leaving America.
Headhunters distribute job information to passengers arriving at the Dublin airport.
Unlike generations past, young people in Dublin can get great jobs at home. When I was in school in the 1970s, a professor told our class to look around because half of us would leave Ireland in search of work, said Tim McCarthy, who worked in London before coming home in 1991 to run Dell Computer s 1,100-employee call center in County Wicklow, just south of Dublin. Now, it s not what country you are moving to, but which dot-com you are going to work for. In addition, the Irish government is small and accessible. The prime minister, President Clinton s counterpart, often attends ribbon-cuttings.