An assessment is provided of the extent to which industrial development policy and manufacturing firms in Ireland have embraced the four principles of the 'New Competition' outlined by Professor Michael Best. Comparisons with Germany are made throughout the paper. A functional analysis of...

This paper proposes a definition of structural unemployment based on its effect on the rate of job hirings. The paper compares this with other possible definitions and examines the relationship betwe en structural unemployment and shifts in the u/v curve. The main resu lts for the British...