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Understanding Ireland's Economic Growth

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Frank Barry

    1. Department of Economics, University College Dublin, Ireland

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  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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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.

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  • Department of Economics, University College Dublin, Ireland

    Frank Barry

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FRANK BARRY is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at University College Dublin. He holds an MA from the University of Essex and a Ph.D. from Queen's University in Canada. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Stockholm, California and New South Wales, and served for a time as Trade and Industry advisor to the Indonesian Ministry of Finance with the Harvard Institute for International Development. His publications are in the fields of macroeconomics and international trade.

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