Political Conflict, Partition, and the Underdevelopment of the Irish Economy
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., Hamilton, D., & Munck, R. (1998)
Political Conflict, Partition, and the Underdevelopment of the Irish Economy. Review of Radical Political Economics, 30(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/048661349803000101
This paper argues that the partition of Ireland has not only contributed to over seventy years of political instability and conflict, but has also contributed to the underdeve...
The political economy of a divided Ireland
Journal Article
Michie, J., & Sheehan, M. (1998)
The political economy of a divided Ireland. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 22(2), 243-259. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013715
For a peace process in Ireland to succeed it will require an active transition away from the underlying causes of conflict—not just the partition of the country, but the inequ...
The ‘Great Reset’ to tackle Covid-19 and other crises
Journal Article
Michie, J., & Sheehan, M. (2021)
The ‘Great Reset’ to tackle Covid-19 and other crises. International Review of Applied Economics, 35(6), 793-795. https://doi.org/10.1080/02692171.2021.1999690
The 2021 World Economic Forum pledged a ‘Great Reset’, recognising that the Covid-19 crisis would be compounded by several other crises, actual and threatened, including the c...
Human Resource Development in Central and Eastern Europe
Book Chapter
Sheehan, M., & Buchelt, B. (2016)
Human Resource Development in Central and Eastern Europe. In T. N. Garavan, A. M. McCarthy, & M. J. Morley (Eds.), Global Human Resource Development: Regional and Country Perspectives. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315818177
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is a region that includes the European countries that were under Soviet economic and political influence before 1990 and often referred to as ...
The Evolution of Technical Efficiency in the Northern Ireland Manufacturing Sector, 1973-1985
Journal Article
Sheehan, M. (1997)
The Evolution of Technical Efficiency in the Northern Ireland Manufacturing Sector, 1973-1985. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 44(1), 59-81. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9485.00045
This paper uses a stochastic frontier production function approach to measure technical efficiency in firms in Northern Ireland. Firm level census of production panel data wer...
The Unequal Unemployed: Discrimination, unemployment and state policy in Northern Ireland
Book
Sheehan, M., & Tomlinson, M. (1999)
The Unequal Unemployed: Discrimination, unemployment and state policy in Northern Ireland. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429431371
First published in 1999, this volume is about unemployment and discrimination, with a focus on Northern Ireland and its debate over patterns of inequality between unemployed C...