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Alan BarrettResearch ProfessorAlan Barrett is programme coordinator of Migration Research at the ESRI and co-author of the Institute's Quarterly Economic Commentary. He joined the ESRI in 1994, upon the completion of his doctoral studies at Michigan State University. Between 2001 and 2004, Alan spent three years away from the Institute – two in the Department of Finance as a Senior Economist and one with Farrell Grant Sparks as Director of the Consulting Unit.His main research areas are labour economics and short-term macroeconomic forecasting. He has worked extensively on migration and has published on the topic in journals such as Labour Economics, the Journal of Population Economics, the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, the International Migration Review and Economics Letters. 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 Industrial and Labor Relations Review and the British Journal of Industrial Relations. Earlier in his career at the ESRI he undertook work on environmental economics. In 1997, he co-authored a book on environmental policy (The Fiscal System and the Polluter Pays Principle: A Case-study of Ireland, published by Ashgate). During his time with the Department of Finance, Alan worked on the long-term implications for the public finances of demographic trends and was also involved in the Department’s preparations for Ireland’s Presidency of the EU in 2004. While with Farrell Grant Sparks, he worked on projects commissioned by agencies such as the Department of Communications, Forfàs and the Combat Poverty Agency. Alan is a Research Fellow with IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor) in Bonn, Germany, and is a regular visiting lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. He is also an associate editor of the Economic and Social Review. |
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