Responsibility for the tremendous excess mortality associated with the Great Irish Famine of 1846-51 is a continuing … administrative records. We use those records to study the Union's day-to-day functioning during the famine and to estimate mortality … the famine primarily reflects the crisis outside the workhouse's walls; the guardians and managers did reasonably well in …

activity not only during the Great Famine but also between the late 1890s and the First World War. As a proof of concept, we …

This paper constructs annual GDP estimates for Ireland (1924-47) to join the first complete official aggregates. The … new series is deployed to revisit Ireland's economic performance in the post-independence decades. Ireland's economy grew … productivity improvements stemming from workers moving out of agriculture. Starting in 1924 captures the civil war recovery and …

Großen Depression zu Beginn der 30er Jahre überstieg. Davon ist die stark auf den Export orientierte deutsche Industrie … Impulse aus, und die Erzeugung wächst wieder. Da aber die Industrie im In- und Ausland derzeit weit unter der normalen …, sodass es insgesamt nur zu einer schwachen Erholung der Industrieproduktion kommen dürfte. …

manufacturing sector to decompose total factor productivity growth into technical efficiency change and technical progress for … industries and firm sizes, leading to total factor productivity growth. The analysis identifies the industries and firm sizes … that lag the most in productivity, and thus have the greatest scope for policies that facilitate productivity growth. …

productivity of the industrial sector. This policy environment comprises three layers: 1) the trade policy that determines the …

exports to the euro area countries relative to the rest of the trading partners of Ireland has been positive, significant and …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …

"polarization," causing low-productivity firms to exit the market while others temporarily distort their employment upward …. Dynamically, firms are incentivized to improve productivity to meet targets. Using novel data from East German firms post … exit probability, and 10% higher annual productivity growth over the target period. Structural estimates reveal substantial …