A socio-demographic profile. Traditionally, Irish migration towards the United States was due to unemployment in Ireland. During the big recession from 1980 to 1985, resurgence in Irish emigration resulted in the presence in the United States of many illegal immigrants from Ireland whose situation was eventually regularized. Contrary to the former Irish waves of immigrants, a high proportion of the immigrants in this wave was composed of qualified workers. Based on American statistics the authors compare the professional qualifications and the type of integration of the Irish immigrants of older and more recent waves of immigrants.
Recent immigrants have a much more diversified professional profile than their predecessors.
Since 1985 high economic growth in Ireland has encouraged the return of the more qualified emigrants without slowing down the exodus of young, less qualified people. English - pp. The case of Soviet immigrants in Israel. This article compares the incorporation of two groups of immigrants from the former Soviet Union into the Israeli labour market. The first group arrived in Israel in 1979 and the second arrived in 1990.