Employment relationships in Irish counties 1881-1971

Abstract

An autonomous sector in a county is one which does not depend primarily on conditions outside that sector in the same county. Other sectors in a county are induced by activity in the autonomous sectors. For Ireland, 1951-1971, Baker and Ross argued that the relative size of induced sector employment in a county showed a direct positive relationship with the proportion of autonomous sector employment which was non-agricultural in nature. Their basic hypothesis is supported by data for 1881-1936.