Browsing Economic and Social Review by Subject "Manufacturing"

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    • Capital formation, technical change and labour productivity improvement - analysis of a cross-section of Irish manufacturing industries 1953-1967 

      Farley, Noel J.J. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      The recent economic literature has given a good deal of attention to the analysis of production and technical change. During the second half of the 1950's, Solow published his path-breaking article on the causes of labour ...

    • Demand and supply functions for Irish exports of manufactures 

      O'Connell, T. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1977)
      In this paper, we specify and estimate some simple quarterly econometric models of Irish manufactured exports looking at the determinants of both the demand for, and the supply of, manufactured exports. The standard ...

    • Does outsourcing increase profitability? 

      Gorg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of outsourcing. The empirical analysis uses unique plant level data for the electronics sector in Ireland. ...

    • Employment coefficients for Irish trade with extra-EEC countries - measurement and implications 

      McAleese, Dermot; Carey, Patrick (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1981)
      This paper estimates the likely direction and size of changes in manufacturing employment associated with expansion of Ireland's extra-EEC trade. These changes are likely to be negative for extra-EEC trade generally, ...

    • Hall-Roeger tests of market power in Irish manufacturing industries 

      Boyle, G. E. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      The Hall-Roeger methodology for the testing of market power is applied to Irish manufacturing industries for the period 1991-1999. The paper adapts their methodology to permit discrimination between input and output-price-based ...

    • How competitive is Irish manufacturing? 

      Cerra, Valerie; Soikkeli, Jarkko; Saxena, Sweta C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)
      Ireland experienced significant competitiveness gains in the 1990s on the basis of the standard manufacturing unit labour cost-based measure of the real effective exchange rate. A few sectors mostly dominated by multinational ...

    • Job creation and destruction in Northern Ireland: 1973-1993 

      Roper, Stephen (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      Job creation and destruction estimates are made for Northern Ireland manufacturing using the ARD database. International comparisons suggest job creation and destruction rates in Northern Ireland were below those elsewhere. ...

    • Labour productivity and foreign direct investment in Irish manufacturing industry: a decomposition analysis 

      Ruane, Frances; Ugur, Ali (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)
      Overall labour productivity in the Irish manufacturing sector increased by 158 per cent between 1991 and 1999. This paper examines the components of this labour productivity growth in the period 1991-1999, using a decomposition ...

    • Size and efficiency - case of Irish plastics industry 

      Ahmed, M. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)
      International evidence has suggested that plant or firm size does not significantly affect efficiency in the plastics processing industry; this has led to the generalisation that small firms can be economically viable in ...

    • What?s been happening to concentration in Irish industry 1991-2001 

      McCloughan, Patrick (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)
      This paper estimates concentration in Irish manufacturing industry (1991-2001) by applying the McCloughan and Abounoori technique for calculating the concentration ratio given grouped data. The results suggest high aggregate ...