Jim Doran
Biographic Data
| ID | 156381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jim Doran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jim |
| FAMILY NAME | Doran |
| SIGNATURE | DORAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9875-901X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The role of FDI-focused business and technology parks in promoting local employment growth
This paper examines whether the establishment of foreign direct investment (FDI) focused business and technology parks (BTPs) enhances local employment and examines whether this policy strategy is conditioned by BTP heterogeneity. Using detailed Irish panel data (1986–2016) and a propensity score matching with difference-in-difference (PSM-DiD) method, the analysis shows that electoral divisions in close proximity to BTPs experience 0.7% higher a…
A multilevel approach to firm interrelationships across European regions
Policymakers attempt to foster entrepreneurship within European regions yet firm interrelationships across European regions remain understudied. This paper analyses the extent to which past firm births and deaths influence future firm births and deaths across European NUTS 2 regions through the lens of competition, multiplier and Marshall effects. Using a novel multilevel mixed effects regression model, we find evidence for an immediate multiplie…
Measuring land-use mixing across the Republic of Ireland: Source data comparisons
Historical patterns of land-use development across many countries in the Global North have generally been characterised by land-use segregation, low-density settlements, and limited transport accessibility. This can lead to inefficient regional developmental patterns and can increase the environmental degradation attributable to regional expansion. Numerous metrics and datasets have been employed to infer the sustainability and efficiency of thes…
Land-use mixing in Irish cities: Implications for sustainable development
Land-use configurations are explicitly related to the outcomes of numerous economic, social, and environmental policies. From a regional development perspective, efficiency in the use of natural resources, such as space, can positively contribute to sustainability efforts in these realms. This Viewpoint measures the efficiency of land and infrastructure usage within Irish metropolitan areas using relative entropy (i.e., land-use mixing). We find …
How the relationship between socio-demographics, residential environments and travel influence commuter choices
Individual socio-demographic characteristics influence the composition of residential environments, employment considerations and transport-dedicated resources, all of which influence individual travel behaviours. To analyse these interrelationships, we employ generalised structural equation modelling using individual-level data from the 2016 Irish Census on workers across the Republic of Ireland alongside highly spatially disaggregated residenti…
Urbanisation, concentration and diversification as determinants of firm births and deaths
This paper examines the impact of urbanisation, concentration and diversification on firm births and firm deaths across European regions while uniquely accounting for the role of firm interrelationships, regional factors and national fixed effects. A 3SLS model on firm births and deaths is estimated across 196 regions and 16 European countries from 2008 to 2017. We find that density positively influences firm births and negatively influences firm…
The spatiotemporal dimension of population change in Ireland: Visualisation of growth and shrinkage in Irish Electoral Divisions (1986–2016)
Population shrinkage has gained attention from academics and policymakers in recent years, due to the long-term implications the phenomenon has for public service delivery and the viability of urban and rural communities. We visualise the socio-temporal evolution of population shrinkage and growth, utilising a spatially rectified dataset containing population data from seven Census of Population covering the 1986–2016 period in the Republic of Ir…
Retail sprawl and CO2 emissions: Retail centres in Irish cities
The concept of sustainable retail development implies that retail centres should serve their communities economically and socially, while not degrading local environments. However, existing literature identifies that retail centres often create negative externalities, impacting the sustainable development of both the core and peripheries of city regions. International evidence also shows that retail sprawl and transport emissions have been exacer…
Regional variations in automation job risk and labour market thickness to agricultural employment
Automation has the potential to transform entire agricultural value chains and the nature of agricultural business. Recent studies have emphasised barriers to adoption, as well as issues related to labour market and cultural outcomes of automation. However, thus far, very little attention has been afforded to the regional variations in the potential for automation adoption or threats to agricultural employment. Specifically, research to date does…
The vulnerability of European regional labour markets to job automation: The role of agglomeration externalities
Automation is expected to have strong implications for labour-saving technologies. We calculate the proportion of jobs at high risk of automation across European regions using data from the 2018 Labour Force Survey (LFS). We examine the relationship between regional vulnerability to job automation, specialization, related (and unrelated) variety and agglomeration. The results indicate that regions at low vulnerability to job automation benefit fr…
Driving the circular economy through public environmental and energy R&D: Evidence from SMEs in the European Union
Does nanotechnology research generate an innovation premium over other types of research? Evidence from Ireland
The effect of agglomeration economies on firm deaths: A comparison of firm and regional based approaches
This paper compares the merits of regional and firm based approaches for analysing the effect of agglomeration economies on firm deaths in Ireland. We aggregate a comprehensive data set on Irish firm deaths to Electoral Division (ED) level, the lowest geographical scale available. Estimates of the effect of agglomeration on firm deaths from a regional analysis at ED level using a cross-sectional spatial-autoregressive spatial error model are comp…
More subsidies, more innovation? Evaluating whether a mix of subsidies from regional, national and EU sources crowds out firm-level innovation
Policy-makers at regional, national and European Union (EU) levels of governance use a variety of subsidy programmes to stimulate firm-level innovation. Against this backdrop, this paper investigates three important issues that have not received sufficient attention in the literature: (1) whether evaluating the impact of subsidies from each individual source is biased by ignoring firms that receive a mix of subsidies from different sources at the…
The eos project: Modelling Upper Palaeolithic social change
The objective of the EOS project (Doran 1982, 1992) is to investigate the growth of social complexity and, in particular, to formulate and experiment with an abstract computational version of an informal model proposed by Paul Mellars (1985) of the growth of social complexity in the Upper Palaeolithic period in southwestern France. At the heart of the project is the use of the concepts and techniques of distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) (…
Simulating Societies: The Computer Simulation of Social Phenomena
Visualization of firm linkages in the Chicago ICT cluster
Do industry clusters derive their success from a strong ‘local buzz’ or from access to ‘global pipelines’? This important question is addressed in the context of the Chicago (Illinois, United States) information and communication technology (ICT) cluster, which has shown growth and dynamism and is a significant sector not only in terms of the jobs it creates directly but also by supporting other sectors in Chicago. Cluster mapping and analysis st…
US Metropolitan Area Resilience: Insights from dynamic spatial panel estimation
In this paper, we show that the economic crisis commencing in 2007 had different impacts across US Metropolitan Statistical Areas, and seek to understand why differences occurred. The hypothesis of interest is that differences in industrial structure are a cause of variations in response to the crisis. Our approach uses a state-of-the art dynamic spatial panel model to obtain counterfactual predictions of Metropolitan Statistical Area employment …
Evaluation of an informal rule for the allocation of sports capital funding
Entrepreneurship and employment growth across European regions
This research focuses on the impact of regional entrepreneurial activity on employment growth. Specifically it analyses whether new firm formation in European NUTS-2 regions can stimulate job creation and drive employment growth
Resilience from the micro perspective
Perhaps uniquely, we combine individual-level data from the American Community Survey 2005–2011 with aggregate data for small areas to examine the resilience of individuals’ wages to the 2008 economic crisis. A Mincer-type wage equation, incorporating market potential and employment density, is estimated, leading to a measure of resilience based on actual wages in 2011 and on a counterfactual obtained from our wage equation. We find that individu…
Employment Resilience in Europe and the 2008 Economic Crisis: Insights from Micro-Level Data
Doran J. and Fingleton B. Employment resilience in Europe and the 2008 economic crisis: insights from micro-level data, Regional Studies . This paper analyses employment resilience to the 2008 economic crisis using individual-level data from the European Social Survey (ESS) combined with NUTS-1 regional economic statistics. It models employment outcomes for individuals for 2002–08 and generates counterfactual outcomes for 2010 for individual-leve…
Economic shocks and growth: Spatio‐temporal perspectives on Europe's economies in a time of crisis
Two Outline Models of Science: AMS and Hams
Two abstract and computational models of the long-term process of science are proposed: AMS and HAMS. An outline specification of each model is given and the relationship between them explained. AMS takes an Olympian ("artificial world") view of science and its processes. HAMS is simpler and relatively more abstract and comprises only a small set of core processes. A first implementation of HAMS is described. How AMS and HAMS might be validated a…
The EOS project: Integrating two models of Palaeolithic social change
A previous report on the EOS project (Doran et al, 1994) described the development of a specialized software testbed, and the design, implementation and testing within it of a simple computational version of the Mellars model for the growth of unprecedented social complexity in the Upper Palaeolithic period of south-western Europe (Mellars 1985)
Employment Resilience in Europe and the 2008 Economic Crisis: Insights from Micro-Level Data
Doran J. and Fingleton B. Employment resilience in Europe and the 2008 economic crisis: insights from micro-level data, Regional Studies . This paper analyses employment resilience to the 2008 economic crisis using individual-level data from the European Social Survey (ESS) combined with NUTS-1 regional economic statistics. It models employment outcomes for individuals for 2002–08 and generates counterfactual outcomes for 2010 for individual-leve…
The vulnerability of European regional labour markets to job automation: The role of agglomeration externalities
Automation is expected to have strong implications for labour-saving technologies. We calculate the proportion of jobs at high risk of automation across European regions using data from the 2018 Labour Force Survey (LFS). We examine the relationship between regional vulnerability to job automation, specialization, related (and unrelated) variety and agglomeration. The results indicate that regions at low vulnerability to job automation benefit fr…
US Metropolitan Area Resilience: Insights from dynamic spatial panel estimation
In this paper, we show that the economic crisis commencing in 2007 had different impacts across US Metropolitan Statistical Areas, and seek to understand why differences occurred. The hypothesis of interest is that differences in industrial structure are a cause of variations in response to the crisis. Our approach uses a state-of-the art dynamic spatial panel model to obtain counterfactual predictions of Metropolitan Statistical Area employment …
Economic shocks and growth: Spatio‐temporal perspectives on Europe's economies in a time of crisis
More subsidies, more innovation? Evaluating whether a mix of subsidies from regional, national and EU sources crowds out firm-level innovation
Policy-makers at regional, national and European Union (EU) levels of governance use a variety of subsidy programmes to stimulate firm-level innovation. Against this backdrop, this paper investigates three important issues that have not received sufficient attention in the literature: (1) whether evaluating the impact of subsidies from each individual source is biased by ignoring firms that receive a mix of subsidies from different sources at the…
Entrepreneurship and employment growth across European regions
This research focuses on the impact of regional entrepreneurial activity on employment growth. Specifically it analyses whether new firm formation in European NUTS-2 regions can stimulate job creation and drive employment growth
Resilience from the micro perspective
Perhaps uniquely, we combine individual-level data from the American Community Survey 2005–2011 with aggregate data for small areas to examine the resilience of individuals’ wages to the 2008 economic crisis. A Mincer-type wage equation, incorporating market potential and employment density, is estimated, leading to a measure of resilience based on actual wages in 2011 and on a counterfactual obtained from our wage equation. We find that individu…
Formal methods and archaeological theory: A perspective
This paper briefly reviews some of the major developments in the use of formal methods in European and American archaeology over the past decade, looks at the relationship of these methods to archaeological theory and to the controversies concerning it, and then suggests ways in which some particular formal concepts and methods deriving from artificial intelligence research can contribute to the formulation and use of archaeological theory in the…
Driving the circular economy through public environmental and energy R&D: Evidence from SMEs in the European Union
Land-use mixing in Irish cities: Implications for sustainable development
Land-use configurations are explicitly related to the outcomes of numerous economic, social, and environmental policies. From a regional development perspective, efficiency in the use of natural resources, such as space, can positively contribute to sustainability efforts in these realms. This Viewpoint measures the efficiency of land and infrastructure usage within Irish metropolitan areas using relative entropy (i.e., land-use mixing). We find …
Regional variations in automation job risk and labour market thickness to agricultural employment
Automation has the potential to transform entire agricultural value chains and the nature of agricultural business. Recent studies have emphasised barriers to adoption, as well as issues related to labour market and cultural outcomes of automation. However, thus far, very little attention has been afforded to the regional variations in the potential for automation adoption or threats to agricultural employment. Specifically, research to date does…
How the relationship between socio-demographics, residential environments and travel influence commuter choices
Individual socio-demographic characteristics influence the composition of residential environments, employment considerations and transport-dedicated resources, all of which influence individual travel behaviours. To analyse these interrelationships, we employ generalised structural equation modelling using individual-level data from the 2016 Irish Census on workers across the Republic of Ireland alongside highly spatially disaggregated residenti…
Does nanotechnology research generate an innovation premium over other types of research? Evidence from Ireland
Visualization of firm linkages in the Chicago ICT cluster
Do industry clusters derive their success from a strong ‘local buzz’ or from access to ‘global pipelines’? This important question is addressed in the context of the Chicago (Illinois, United States) information and communication technology (ICT) cluster, which has shown growth and dynamism and is a significant sector not only in terms of the jobs it creates directly but also by supporting other sectors in Chicago. Cluster mapping and analysis st…
Simulating Societies: The Computer Simulation of Social Phenomena
Mathematics and computers in archaeology
Formal methods and archaeological theory: A perspective
This paper briefly reviews some of the major developments in the use of formal methods in European and American archaeology over the past decade, looks at the relationship of these methods to archaeological theory and to the controversies concerning it, and then suggests ways in which some particular formal concepts and methods deriving from artificial intelligence research can contribute to the formulation and use of archaeological theory in the…
Simulating Societies: The Computer Simulation of Social Phenomena
The EOS project: Integrating two models of Palaeolithic social change
A previous report on the EOS project (Doran et al, 1994) described the development of a specialized software testbed, and the design, implementation and testing within it of a simple computational version of the Mellars model for the growth of unprecedented social complexity in the Upper Palaeolithic period of south-western Europe (Mellars 1985)
Agent Design for Agent-Based Modelling
To build an agent-based computational model of a specific socioenvironmental system requires that answers be found to several important questions including: what social actors and contextual entities are to be modelled as software agents? With what mental functions must these software agents be equipped? What standard design or designs should be used to create the software agents? This paper concentrates upon the last of these questions. The curr…
Two Outline Models of Science: AMS and Hams
Two abstract and computational models of the long-term process of science are proposed: AMS and HAMS. An outline specification of each model is given and the relationship between them explained. AMS takes an Olympian ("artificial world") view of science and its processes. HAMS is simpler and relatively more abstract and comprises only a small set of core processes. A first implementation of HAMS is described. How AMS and HAMS might be validated a…
Economic shocks and growth: Spatio‐temporal perspectives on Europe's economies in a time of crisis
Resilience from the micro perspective
Perhaps uniquely, we combine individual-level data from the American Community Survey 2005–2011 with aggregate data for small areas to examine the resilience of individuals’ wages to the 2008 economic crisis. A Mincer-type wage equation, incorporating market potential and employment density, is estimated, leading to a measure of resilience based on actual wages in 2011 and on a counterfactual obtained from our wage equation. We find that individu…
Employment Resilience in Europe and the 2008 Economic Crisis: Insights from Micro-Level Data
Doran J. and Fingleton B. Employment resilience in Europe and the 2008 economic crisis: insights from micro-level data, Regional Studies . This paper analyses employment resilience to the 2008 economic crisis using individual-level data from the European Social Survey (ESS) combined with NUTS-1 regional economic statistics. It models employment outcomes for individuals for 2002–08 and generates counterfactual outcomes for 2010 for individual-leve…
Evaluation of an informal rule for the allocation of sports capital funding
Entrepreneurship and employment growth across European regions
This research focuses on the impact of regional entrepreneurial activity on employment growth. Specifically it analyses whether new firm formation in European NUTS-2 regions can stimulate job creation and drive employment growth
The eos project: Modelling Upper Palaeolithic social change
The objective of the EOS project (Doran 1982, 1992) is to investigate the growth of social complexity and, in particular, to formulate and experiment with an abstract computational version of an informal model proposed by Paul Mellars (1985) of the growth of social complexity in the Upper Palaeolithic period in southwestern France. At the heart of the project is the use of the concepts and techniques of distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) (…
Simulating Societies: The Computer Simulation of Social Phenomena
Visualization of firm linkages in the Chicago ICT cluster
Do industry clusters derive their success from a strong ‘local buzz’ or from access to ‘global pipelines’? This important question is addressed in the context of the Chicago (Illinois, United States) information and communication technology (ICT) cluster, which has shown growth and dynamism and is a significant sector not only in terms of the jobs it creates directly but also by supporting other sectors in Chicago. Cluster mapping and analysis st…
US Metropolitan Area Resilience: Insights from dynamic spatial panel estimation
In this paper, we show that the economic crisis commencing in 2007 had different impacts across US Metropolitan Statistical Areas, and seek to understand why differences occurred. The hypothesis of interest is that differences in industrial structure are a cause of variations in response to the crisis. Our approach uses a state-of-the art dynamic spatial panel model to obtain counterfactual predictions of Metropolitan Statistical Area employment …
Does nanotechnology research generate an innovation premium over other types of research? Evidence from Ireland
The effect of agglomeration economies on firm deaths: A comparison of firm and regional based approaches
This paper compares the merits of regional and firm based approaches for analysing the effect of agglomeration economies on firm deaths in Ireland. We aggregate a comprehensive data set on Irish firm deaths to Electoral Division (ED) level, the lowest geographical scale available. Estimates of the effect of agglomeration on firm deaths from a regional analysis at ED level using a cross-sectional spatial-autoregressive spatial error model are comp…
More subsidies, more innovation? Evaluating whether a mix of subsidies from regional, national and EU sources crowds out firm-level innovation
Policy-makers at regional, national and European Union (EU) levels of governance use a variety of subsidy programmes to stimulate firm-level innovation. Against this backdrop, this paper investigates three important issues that have not received sufficient attention in the literature: (1) whether evaluating the impact of subsidies from each individual source is biased by ignoring firms that receive a mix of subsidies from different sources at the…
Driving the circular economy through public environmental and energy R&D: Evidence from SMEs in the European Union
The vulnerability of European regional labour markets to job automation: The role of agglomeration externalities
Automation is expected to have strong implications for labour-saving technologies. We calculate the proportion of jobs at high risk of automation across European regions using data from the 2018 Labour Force Survey (LFS). We examine the relationship between regional vulnerability to job automation, specialization, related (and unrelated) variety and agglomeration. The results indicate that regions at low vulnerability to job automation benefit fr…
The spatiotemporal dimension of population change in Ireland: Visualisation of growth and shrinkage in Irish Electoral Divisions (1986–2016)
Population shrinkage has gained attention from academics and policymakers in recent years, due to the long-term implications the phenomenon has for public service delivery and the viability of urban and rural communities. We visualise the socio-temporal evolution of population shrinkage and growth, utilising a spatially rectified dataset containing population data from seven Census of Population covering the 1986–2016 period in the Republic of Ir…
Retail sprawl and CO2 emissions: Retail centres in Irish cities
The concept of sustainable retail development implies that retail centres should serve their communities economically and socially, while not degrading local environments. However, existing literature identifies that retail centres often create negative externalities, impacting the sustainable development of both the core and peripheries of city regions. International evidence also shows that retail sprawl and transport emissions have been exacer…
Regional variations in automation job risk and labour market thickness to agricultural employment
Automation has the potential to transform entire agricultural value chains and the nature of agricultural business. Recent studies have emphasised barriers to adoption, as well as issues related to labour market and cultural outcomes of automation. However, thus far, very little attention has been afforded to the regional variations in the potential for automation adoption or threats to agricultural employment. Specifically, research to date does…
Measuring land-use mixing across the Republic of Ireland: Source data comparisons
Historical patterns of land-use development across many countries in the Global North have generally been characterised by land-use segregation, low-density settlements, and limited transport accessibility. This can lead to inefficient regional developmental patterns and can increase the environmental degradation attributable to regional expansion. Numerous metrics and datasets have been employed to infer the sustainability and efficiency of thes…
Land-use mixing in Irish cities: Implications for sustainable development
Land-use configurations are explicitly related to the outcomes of numerous economic, social, and environmental policies. From a regional development perspective, efficiency in the use of natural resources, such as space, can positively contribute to sustainability efforts in these realms. This Viewpoint measures the efficiency of land and infrastructure usage within Irish metropolitan areas using relative entropy (i.e., land-use mixing). We find …
Economics (15 works) · Geography (12 works) · Economic geography (9 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Regional resilience and development (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Engineering (5 works)