Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34488 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3211
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
Manufacturing employment
structural change
trade liberalisation
JEL: 
O30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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