This paper combines a literature identifying the sources of productivity growth with a literature exploring differences between the characteristics of exporters and non-exporters to examine the contributions of exporters and non-exporters to aggregate labour productivity growth in the Irish...

Recent economic literature suggests the importance of sunk costs and hysteresis in explaining export patterns in international trade. To explore their empirical importance, we present a new conceptual framework that distinguishes six different types of exporter behaviour, and apply this...

Overall labor productivity in the Irish manufacturing sector increased by 158 percent between 1991 and 1999. This growth in labor productivity coincided with strong growth in employment during the same period, in stark contrast to the experience of other European countries. This paper examines...