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Is there a rural-urban divide? Location and productivity of UK manufacturing

Rizov, Marian ; Walsh, Patrick P. (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-08)

We compute the productivity gaps in manufacturing industries by urban, rural less sparse and rural sparse locations in the UK. This is done by using firm-specific total factor productivities, which are estimated by a ...
A portfolio analysis of industrial structure

Barry, Frank ; Kearney, Colm (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-03)

Industrial sectors producing income-elastic products can grow rapidly but are highly vulnerable to fluctuations in the world economy. Policymakers need to take into account this trade-off between output and employment ...
Revisiting the 'informational city' : space of flows, polycentricity and the geography of knowledge-intensive business services in the emerging global city-region of Dublin

Sokol, Martin ; Van Egeraat, Chris ; Williams, Brendan (Taylor & Francis, 2008-10)

The paper engages with the notion that the new spatial logic, underpinned by information and communication technology (ICT) and the ‘space of flows’, manifests itself in the form of ‘informational cities’ described as ...