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Investment in Education and Economic Growth on the Island of Ireland

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  • John Fitzgerald

    (Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin)

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Looking at the post-War years, this paper considers how investment in education developed using different models and following different trajectories in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The result has been a very different impact on economic growth: increasing human capital made a major contribution to growth in Ireland since 1960, while in Northern Ireland the failure to make adequate investment in education is reflected in a continuing poor economic performance.

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  • John Fitzgerald, 2011. "Investment in Education and Economic Growth on the Island of Ireland," Trinity Economics Papers tep0719, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:tcd:tcduee:tep0719
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    Keywords

    Education; human capital; growth; Ireland; Northern Ireland;
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    JEL classification:

    • E00 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - General
    • I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence

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