Sustainable Employment and Economic Growth

Population, employment and economic growth in Ireland.

The population of the Republic of Ireland increased at an annual average rate of 1.5% between 1971-79. There is no evidence of a slowing down in the population growth rate since 1979; the electoral register totals have shown larger increases in the 2 years since 1979 than over the 1971-79 period. Rapid population growth is a unique experience in Ireland. The highly variable rate of populatio...

Youth employment, unemployment, skills and economic growth

Cross-Border Migration, Employment and Economic Growth

Information Technology Investment, Economic Growth, and Employment

During the past thirty years, the economy of the USA, along with other industrialized countries, has experienced several noticeable trends, namely, the economic slowdown, the tremendous increase in the amount of information technology investment, and fast structural change in terms of employment. With slow economic growth and fast IT capital accumulation, the so-called “information technology (...

Smes and Economic Growth: Entrepreneurship or Employment

There has been increasing recognition of the importance of the SME sector in recent years; indeed, the contribution made by SMEs to overall economic development has become widely recognized in many of the newly industrialized economies. In an effort to go beyond some of the present empirical works, this study uses a dataset on both developed and developing economies to examine the contribution ...