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Jobless growth through creative destruction : Ireland's industrial development path 1972-2003

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  • Ciara Whelan
  • Patrick P. Walsh
  • Qi Li

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We document the nature of structural changes in employment to understand “jobless” growth in Irish Manufacturing in the aftermath of EEC/EU membership, 1972-2003. By 1972, forty years of protectionism and fifteen years of export promotion induced the coexistence of large exporting plants with import competing plants within 4-digit industries. During trade liberalisation we document persistent horizontal waves of creative destruction, a decline in traditional import competing plants and an expansion in exporting plants, within each sector. This coexisted with rapid vertical waves of creative destruction in small non-exporting plants which supported exporting growth through forward vertical linkages within each sector.

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  • Ciara Whelan & Patrick P. Walsh & Qi Li, 2007. "Jobless growth through creative destruction : Ireland's industrial development path 1972-2003," Working Papers 10197/142, Geary Institute, University College Dublin.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucd:wpaper:10197/142
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    Keywords

    Manufacturing employment; Structural change; Trade liberalisation; Manufacturing industries--Ireland; Labor supply--Ireland; Free trade--European Union countries;
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    JEL classification:

    • O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General
    • L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General

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