TY  - JOUR
  - O' Leary, E
  - 2001
  - May
  - Regional Studies
  - Convergence of living standards among Irish regions: The roles of productivity, profit outflows and demography, 1960-1996
  - Validated
  - ()
  - Irish regional convergence living standards productivity and demography
  - 35
  - 197
  - 205
  - Using a consistent data set, this paper presents evidence, for the first time, on the degree of convergence of living standards among Irish planning regions between 1960 and 1996. The basic decomposition of living standards into productivity and demographic factors is extended to include the income/output ratio, which is significant in Ireland due to the presence of substantial profit outflows since the mid-1980s. Living standards converged strongly among regions between 1960 and 1979, but between 1979 and 1996 there was weak divergence. The chief proximate cause of this reversal was the slowdown in the effect of productivity on the degree of convergence of living standards. The emergence of profit outflows exerted a negative effect on living standards growth, while the Irish `demographic dividend' boosted growth but had a divergent effect on living standards growth during the 1980s and 1990s. A renewed future role for regional policy focused on the major urban centres is proposed.
DA  - 2001/05
ER  - 

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   = {O' Leary,  E },
   = {2001},
   = {May},
   = {Regional Studies},
   = {Convergence of living standards among Irish regions: The roles of productivity, profit outflows and demography, 1960-1996},
   = {Validated},
   = {()},
   = {Irish regional convergence living standards productivity and demography},
   = {35},
  pages = {197--205},
   = {{Using a consistent data set, this paper presents evidence, for the first time, on the degree of convergence of living standards among Irish planning regions between 1960 and 1996. The basic decomposition of living standards into productivity and demographic factors is extended to include the income/output ratio, which is significant in Ireland due to the presence of substantial profit outflows since the mid-1980s. Living standards converged strongly among regions between 1960 and 1979, but between 1979 and 1996 there was weak divergence. The chief proximate cause of this reversal was the slowdown in the effect of productivity on the degree of convergence of living standards. The emergence of profit outflows exerted a negative effect on living standards growth, while the Irish `demographic dividend' boosted growth but had a divergent effect on living standards growth during the 1980s and 1990s. A renewed future role for regional policy focused on the major urban centres is proposed.}},
  source = {IRIS}
}