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Manufacturing industries in Northern Ireland and Great Britain: was there convergence during the 1949-92 period?

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  • Richard Harris
  • Mary Trainor

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This paper uses detailed industry-level data for the UK regions which, based on the standard cross-sectional regression model, suggests that 'strong' convergence was occurring during the period 1963-92, even though plotting these data and considering their variation over time would tend to suggest divergence rather than convergence has dominated. However, since there are several, rather fundamental drawbacks associated with the cross-sectional approach, a long time-series of data for Northern Ireland and Great Britain is used to test for convergence directly, based on testing for unit roots. The outcome is that more than half of the Northern Ireland industries considered experienced 'catch-up', while the rest (with the exception of the Textiles sector) experienced long-run convergence, i.e. they tracked their counterparts in Great Britain over the period considered.

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  • Richard Harris & Mary Trainor, 1999. "Manufacturing industries in Northern Ireland and Great Britain: was there convergence during the 1949-92 period?," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(12), pages 1573-1580.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:31:y:1999:i:12:p:1573-1580
    DOI: 10.1080/000368499323094
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    1. Jan Bentzen, 2015. "Comparing data sources of real GDP in purchasing power parities," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(16), pages 1303-1308, November.
    2. Jan Bentzen & Tor Eriksson & Valdemar Smith, 2001. "Alcohol Consumption in European Countries Time series based tests of convergence," Cahiers d'Economie et Sociologie Rurales, INRA Department of Economics, vol. 60, pages 59-74.
    3. Chunyan Lin & Wen Qiao, 2022. "Statistical Measurements and Club Effects of High-Quality Development in Chinese Manufacturing," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(23), pages 1-22, December.

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