Understanding Ireland’s Economic Growth

  • Frank Barry
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction
    Frank Barry
    Pages 1-11
  3. The Real Convergence of the Irish Economy and the Sectoral Distribution of Employment Growth
    Frank Barry, Aoife Hannan, Eric Strobl
    Pages 13-24
  4. Irish Growth in Historical and Theoretical Perspective
    Frank Barry
    Pages 25-44
  5. Indigenous and Foreign Industry: Characteristics and Performance
    Frank Barry, John Bradley, Eoin O’Malley
    Pages 45-74
  6. Fiscal Adjustment and Disinflation in Ireland: Setting the Macro Basis of Economic Recovery and Expansion
    Patrick Honohan
    Pages 75-98
  7. The European Dimension:The Single Market and the Structural Funds
    Frank Barry, John Bradley, Aoife Hannan
    Pages 99-118
  8. Education and Growth in the Irish Economy
    Joseph Durkan, Doireann Fitz Gerald, Colm Harmon
    Pages 119-135
  9. Wage Formation and the Labour Market
    John Fitz Gerald
    Pages 137-165
  10. Income Inequality in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s
    Tim Callan, Brian Nolan
    Pages 167-192
  11. The Persistence of High Unemployment in a Small Open Labour Market: The Irish Case
    Brendan Walsh
    Pages 193-226
  12. Back Matter
    Pages 227-242
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About this book

Introduction

This is an authoritative and topical assessment of Ireland's impressive economic growth record which has seen it dubbed 'the Celtic tiger'. Leading scholars from Ireland and beyond discuss Ireland's spectacular performance in its economic, social and political contexts.

Keywords

economic growth growth inflation unemployment

Editors and affiliations

  • Frank Barry
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of EconomicsUniversity College DublinIreland

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333985052
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-40747-7
  • Online ISBN 978-0-333-98505-2
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