Jobless Growth through Creative Destruction. Ireland’s Industrial Development Path 1972 -2003

Oi Li, Patrick Paul Walsh () and Ciara Whelan ()
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Oi Li: School of Politics and International Relations + Geary Institute, University College Dublin

No 200740, Working Papers from Geary Institute, University College Dublin

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Manufacturing Employment; Structural Change and Trade liberalisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O30 L20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 2007-12-25
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