Browsing by Subject "Manufacturing sector"

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    • Aggregate job creation, job destruction and job turnover in the Irish manufacturing sector 

      Strobl, Eric A.; Walsh, Patrick Paul; Barry, Frank (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)
      Using an annual employment survey data set we construct aggregate job flow rates for the Irish manufacturing sector for the period 1974 to 1994. We report the existence of simultaneous job creation and job destruction, ...

    • Industry clusters and Irish indigenous manufacturing: limits of the Porter view 

      O'Malley, Eoin; Van Egeraat, Chris (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2000)
      Studies by Porter (1990) and others find that competitive and successful industries usually occur in the form of clusters of industries which are linked together through vertical or horizontal relationships. This paper ...

    • Job turnover in Irish manufacturing 1972?2006 

      Lawless, Martina; Murphy, Alan P. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2008)
      With the recent slowdown in global economic growth, there has been considerable focus in Ireland on some high-profile job losses, particularly in the manufacturing sector. This paper places such developments into a broader ...

    • Manufacturing productivity in Northern Ireland: a re-examination 

      Roper, Stephen (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)
      This paper considers the influence of plant-level productivity and industry-mix/plantsize structure on manufacturing productivity in Northern Ireland. It demonstrates that from 1981-91 around two-thirds of the productivity ...

    • Structural change in the Northern Ireland economy 

      Luke, Arthur E. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1977)
      The notion that Northern Ireland's economic problems reflect, to a substantial degree, an adverse mix of industry ? with too great an emphasis on declining or slow growing sectors ? is now a commonplace, if partial, ...

    • The law of Verdoorn: evidence from Greek disaggregated manufacturing time series data 

      Apergis, Nicholas; Zikos, Spyros (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)
      This paper tests the validity of Verdoorn?s law in Greek manufacturing. Through the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) methodology, estimates of the Verdoorn law in aggregated and disaggregated manufacturing Greek data ...

    • The presence of Porter's sectoral clustering in Irish manufacturing 

      O'Donnellan, Niall (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1994)
      Industrial clustering is seen by Porter (1990) as a dynamic process of national sectoral linkages and regional proximity that can systematically interact and reinforce each other, and which is central to international ...