Returning emigrants to boost regional growth

Returning emigrants could provide a much-needed regional jobs boost as new research suggests a continuing division in the pace of recovery across the country.

The broader economic pickup is likely to attract an increasing number of Irish overseas workers back to the country in the coming 12 months with lower living costs outside of the main urban centres likely to be of particular interest.

The expected increase in emigrants taking up job offers on home soil is seen as one of the major job market trends in Morgan McKinley’s Irish salary and benefits guide for 2016.