1989
DOI: 10.1080/00343408912331345622
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Productivity Levels in Northern Ireland Manufacturing Industry: A Comparison with Great Britain

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“…Previous UK work has used aggregated time series data to estimate regional production functions (Dixon and Thirlwall, 1975;Harris, 1982), or it has simply tended to look at relative productivity and make inferences about the underlying efficiency of a region (e.g. Hitchens and Birnie, 1989). In contrast, this study has estimated a crosssection production function using a frontier approach and data drawn from individual firms.…”
Section: I5mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Previous UK work has used aggregated time series data to estimate regional production functions (Dixon and Thirlwall, 1975;Harris, 1982), or it has simply tended to look at relative productivity and make inferences about the underlying efficiency of a region (e.g. Hitchens and Birnie, 1989). In contrast, this study has estimated a crosssection production function using a frontier approach and data drawn from individual firms.…”
Section: I5mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In fact disadvantages of industrial structure and higher energy costs, and the direct impact of political violence, explain only a minority of the 20 percentage point productivity shortfall ofNorthern Ireland (HITCHENS and BIRNIE, 1989b). Whilst Teague emphasizes the peripherality of Northern Ireland, it should be noted that differential transport costs are relatively small (HITCHENS and O'FARRELL, 1987, 1988a, 1988bWOOD and PEIDA, 1987).…”
Section: Policy Review Sectionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Even if the policy could be implemented its long-term impact would be doubtful given that it would give highly skilled members of the Northern Irish labour force an incentive to migrate to Great Britain. The pool of highly skilled personnel in Northern Ireland is already proportionately smaller than in Great Britain (HITCHENS and BIRNIE, 1989b) and pay cuts would reinforce the perception amongst talented outsiders that Northern Ireland was an unpleasant place to work and live in (because of the political troubles). Perhaps even more serious would be the fact that low wages in Northern Ireland would reinforce the market signal to firms to specialize in low skill simple products of poor quality.…”
Section: Policy Review Sectionmentioning
confidence: 98%
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