List of Tables Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; F.Barry The Real Convergence of the Irish Economy and the Sectoral Distribution of Employment Growth; F.Barry, A.Hannan & E.A.Strobl Recent Irish Growth in Historical and Theoretical Perspective; F.Barry Indigenous and Foreign Industry: Characteristics and Performance; F.Barry, J.Bradley & E.O'Malley Fiscal Adjustment and Disinflation in Ireland: Setting the Macro Basis of Economic Recovery and Expansion; P.Honohan The European Dimension: The Single Market and the Structural Funds; F.Barry, J. Bradley & A.Hannan Education and Growth in the Irish Economy; J.Durkan, D.FitzGerald & C.Harmon Wage Formation and the Labour Market; J.FitzGerald Income Inequality in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s; T.Callan & B.Nolan The Persistence of High Unemployment in a Small Open Labour Market: The Irish Case; B.Walsh Index