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Seamus McGuinness

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Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin

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Seamus McGuinness is a Research Professor and the programme co-ordinator for labour market research at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Dublin. Prior to joining the ESRI, he held posts at Queens University Belfast, the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre, the Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland and the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic & Social Research (University of Melbourne). He obtained his PhD in Economics from Queens University Belfast in 2003. Seamus is an Adjunct Professor in the department of economics at Trinity College Dublin .

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in August 2014.

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 18518

Education as a Shield Against the Adverse Shock of Motherhood: Gender, Parenthood and Overeducation Among Highly and Mid-Educated British Workers

Luis Ortiz-Gervasi, Seamus McGuinness, Benedetta Nussio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18134

Vocational Education, Earnings and Job Satisfaction in Europe

Seamus McGuinness, Lorcan Kelly, Anne Devlin, Adele Whelan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18133

Developing a New European Indicator of Potential Skill Shortages

Seamus McGuinness, Elisa Staffa, Sangwoo Lee, Lorcan Kelly, Paul Redmond

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17993

Measuring the Incidence and Impacts of Skill Gaps Among European Workers

Seamus McGuinness, Elisa Staffa

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17847

Playing an Amateur Sport in a Professional Context: Good for Gaelic Players Mental Health?

Elish Kelly, Seamus McGuinness, Eoin Kenny

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17753

Technological Change and the Upskilling of European Workers

Seamus McGuinness, Paul Redmond, Konstantinos Pouliakas, Lorcan Kelly, Luke Brosnan

revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Education and Work

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17598

Labour Market Dynamics of Minimum Wage Workers

Paul Redmond, Seamus McGuinness, Elish Kelly

published online in: Applied Economics, 4 March 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16052

Social Inclusion and Levels of Urbanisation: Does It Matter Where You Live?

Adele Whelan, Anne Devlin, Seamus McGuinness

revised version published as 'Barriers to social inclusion and levels of urbanisation: Does it matter where you live?' in: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2024, 17 (1), 59 - 74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16031

The Impact of a Minimum Wage Increase on Hours Worked: Heterogeneous Effects by Gender and Sector

Paul Redmond, Seamus McGuinness

published in Economica, 2025, 92, (365), 84-106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13109

The Impact of One Parent Family Payment Reforms on the Labour Market Outcomes of Lone Parents

Paul Redmond, Seamus McGuinness, Claire Keane

revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2023, 75 (2), 346 - 370

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12914

The Impact of a Minimum Wage Change on the Distribution of Wages and Household Income

Paul Redmond, Karina Doorley, Seamus McGuinness

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021, 73 (3),1034 - 1056

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12884

Minimum Wage Non-Compliance: Evidence from Ireland

Seamus McGuinness, Paul Redmond, Judith M. Delaney

published as 'Minimum Wage Non-Compliance' in: Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27 (20), 1663 - 1666

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12703

Explaining the Gender Gap in Job Satisfaction

Paul Redmond, Seamus McGuinness

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27 (17), 1415 - 1418

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12541

Skills-Displacing Technological Change and Its Impact on Jobs: Challenging Technological Alarmism?

Seamus McGuinness, Konstantinos Pouliakas, Paul Redmond

published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2023, 32 (3), 370-392

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12496

The Political Economy of a Northern Ireland Border Poll

Seamus McGuinness, Adele Bergin

published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2020, 44 (4), 781 - 812

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11632

Estimating the Effect of an Increase in the Minimum Wage on Hours Worked and Employment in Ireland

Seamus McGuinness, Paul Redmond

revised verion published as 'The impact of a Minimum Wage increase on Temporary Worker Contracts' in: 2019, 40 (2), 149-173

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11585

Exploiting the Irish Border to Estimate Minimum Wage Impacts in Northern Ireland

Duncan McVicar, Andrew Park, Seamus McGuinness

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 8(2)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10933

The Gender Wage Gap in Europe: Job Preferences, Gender Convergence and Distributional Effects

Paul Redmond, Seamus McGuinness

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81 (3), 564 - 587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10786

How Useful Is the Concept of Skills Mismatch?

Seamus McGuinness, Konstantinos Pouliakas, Paul Redmond

revised version published as 'Skills mismatch: Concepts, Measurement and Policy Approaches' in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2018, 32 (4), 985-1085

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10698

Does a Satisfied Student Make a Satisfied Worker?

Adele Whelan, Seamus McGuinness

heavily revised version published as 'The determinants of degree programme satisfaction' in: Studies in Higher Education, 2021, 46 (1), 2262 - 2278

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10678

Overeducation in Europe: Trends, Convergence and Drivers

Seamus McGuinness, Adele Bergin, Adele Whelan

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (4), 994 - 1015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10250

Determinants of Regional Differences in Rates of Overeducation in Europe

Maria A. Davia, Seamus McGuinness, Philip J. O'Connell

published in: Social Science Research, 2017, 67-80

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10138

Is There a Role for Higher Education Institutions in Improving the Quality of First Employment?

Seamus McGuinness, Adele Whelan, Adele Bergin

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 16(4), 12-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9698

Deconstructing Theories of Overeducation in Europe: A Wage Decomposition Approach

Seamus McGuinness, Konstantinos Pouliakas

published in: S.W. Polachek et al. (eds.): Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets (Research in Labor Economics, 45) , 2017, 81 - 127

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9278

Skill Gaps in the Workplace: Measurement, Determinants and Impacts

Seamus McGuinness, Luis Ortiz-Gervasi

published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2016, 47 (3), 253-278

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8459

Ireland's Recession and the Immigrant/Native Earnings Gap

Alan Barrett, Adele Bergin, Elish Kelly, Seamus McGuinness

published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Springer 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8441

Examining the Relationship between Employee Resistance to Changes in Job Conditions and Wider Organisational Change: Evidence from Ireland

Hugh Cronin, Seamus McGuinness

published in: Evidence Based HRM, 2015, 4 (1), 30 - 48

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8440

Examining the Relationships between Labour Market Mismatches, Earnings and Job Satisfaction among Immigrant Graduates in Europe

Seamus McGuinness, Delma Byrne

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4 (17)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8401

Changes in Labour Market Transitions in Ireland over the Great Recession

Adele Bergin, Elish Kelly, Seamus McGuinness

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4 (9)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6764

Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes

Seamus McGuinness, Mark Wooden, Markus Hahn

published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2014, 45 (4), 329 - 347

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5083

Job Mismatches and Labour Market Outcomes: Panel Evidence on Australian University Graduates

Kostas Mavromaras, Seamus McGuinness, Nigel C. O'Leary, Peter J. Sloane, Zhang Wei

published in: Economic Record, 2013, Vol 89, No 286, 382-395

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. 4321

Overskilling Dynamics and Education Pathways

Kostas Mavromaras, Seamus McGuinness, Yin King Fok

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (5), 619-628

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4168

Labour Market Mismatch Among UK Graduates: An Analysis Using REFLEX Data

Seamus McGuinness, Peter J. Sloane

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (1), 130-145

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. 3136

The Problem of Overskilling in Australia and Britain

Kostas Mavromaras, Seamus McGuinness, Nigel C. O'Leary, Peter J. Sloane, Yin King Fok

published in: Manchester School, 2010, 78(3), 219-238

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2938

Overskilling, Job Insecurity and Career Mobility

Seamus McGuinness, Mark Wooden

Published in: Industrial Relations, 2009, 48(2), 265-286. doi:10.1111/j.1468-232X.2009.00557.x

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2837

Assessing the Incidence and Wage Effects of Over-Skilling in the Australian Labour Market

Kostas Mavromaras, Seamus McGuinness, Yin King Fok

published in: Economic Record, 2009, 85(268), 60-72

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