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

Ciara Whelan, Patrick Walsh () and Qi Li

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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; Trade liberalisation; Manufacturing industries--Ireland; Labor supply--Ireland; Free trade--European Union countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L20 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-12
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Working Paper: Jobless Growth through Creative Destruction: Ireland’s Industrial Development Path 1972–2003 (2007)
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