%0 Report
        %A Li, Qi
%A Walsh, Patrick Paul
%A Whelan, Ciara
        %T Jobless Growth through Creative Destruction: Ireland’s Industrial Development Path 1972–2003
        %D 2007
        %8 2007 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 3211
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3211
        %X 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.
        %K manufacturing employment
%K structural change
%K trade liberalisation