How Competitive Is Irish Manufacturing? /

Ireland has had significant competitiveness gains in the 1990s on the basis of the standard manufacturing unit labor cost-based measure of the real effective exchange rate. A handful of sectors mostly dominated by multinational companies have accounted for the bulk of value added in production. Thei...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cerra, Valerie
Other Authors: Soikkeli, Jarkko
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/160
Online Access:Full text available on IMF