Local Economy

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Volume 27, issue 8, 2012

Women and the local economy pp. 785-787

Ines Newman

Growing the core economy: Gender, time and sustainable development pp. 788-795

Anna Coote

Deepening disadvantages in housing markets for women pp. 796-803

Lynn Vickery

Government policy and women in the labour market: The importance of public sector employment pp. 804-815

Anne E Green

Challenges in combining work and care: Evidence from investigating women’s work in Leeds pp. 816-830

Sue Yeandle and Viktoria Joynes

Gender balance in the governance of social enterprise pp. 831-845

Fergus Lyon and Anne Laure Humbert

Making, contesting and governing the local: Women’s labour and the local state pp. 846-858

Janet Newman

Unravelling equality: The combined impact of spending cuts on women pp. 859-863

Mary-Ann Stephenson

The Women and Work Commission legacy in the age of austerity pp. 864-871

Rosalie Ward

What price localism? The case for government investment in specialist, community-based services by and for women pp. 872-876

Carol Hayden

Community food growing and the role of women in the alternative economy in Tower Hamlets pp. 877-882

Kate Metcalf, Julia Minnear, Tabitha Kleinert and Victoria Tedder

Irene Hardill and Susan Barnes, Enterprising Care? Unpaid Voluntary Action in the 21st Century pp. 883-884

Anne Green

Naomi Eisenstadt, Providing a Sure Start, The Policy Press: Bristol, 2011; 178 pp.: 9781847427298, £21.99 (pbk) pp. 884-885

Ines Newman

Volume 27, issue 7, 2012

Low carbon mobility: Opportunities and challenges for local economic development pp. 689-691

Nigel Berkeley and David Jarvis

Capturing the economic benefits of a transformative shift to low carbon automobility pp. 692-704

David Jarvis, Nigel Berkeley and Tom Donnelly

UK policy and the low carbon vehicle sector pp. 705-721

Jason Begley and Nigel Berkeley

The price is right? The limitations of market mechanisms in encouraging low carbon mobility pp. 722-731

John Mikler

Low carbon mobility versus private car ownership: Towards a new business vision for the automotive world? pp. 732-748

Dan Coffey and Carole Thornley

Converging transport policy, industrial policy and environmental policy: The implications for localities and social equity pp. 749-763

Peter Wells

Sustainable travel behaviour and the widespread impacts on the local economy pp. 764-781

Candice C Howarth and Polyvios Polyviou

Volume 27, issue 5-6, 2012

Welfare reform and labour market activation pp. 431-448

Andrew Jones

Universal Credit: Simplification or personalisation? pp. 449-454

Paul Spicker

Universal Credit: Will it work? pp. 455-464

Beth Lakhani

Payment by Results: Delivering high quality public services in straitened fiscal times pp. 465-474

Vincent Pattison

Welfare reform and the Single Work Programme: A local perspective pp. 475-479

Anthony Woods-Waters

Housing in the welfare state: Partitioning places and people pp. 480-485

Alan Murie

The geography of stupidity: From where do all the bad ideas come? pp. 486-493

Danny Dorling

Active labour market policy and direct job creation in Germany: Achievements, challenges, and pitfalls pp. 494-501

Jörg Sommer and Peer Rosenthal

Local needs and national eligibility rules: The City Strategy experience of localisation pp. 502-513

Duncan Adam and Anne Green

Debating conditionality for disability benefits recipients and welfare reform: Research evidence from Pathways to Work pp. 514-528

Katharine Weston

The sustainable employment policy agenda: What role for employers? pp. 529-540

David McCollum

A living wage standard: A case study of the US Virgin Islands pp. 541-557

Zenia Kotval, Zeenat Kotval-K, Patricia Machemer and John Mullin

Nordic paths from welfare to workfare: Danish, Swedish and Finnish labour market reforms in comparison pp. 558-576

Johannes Kananen

Lone parents working for welfare in New Zealand pp. 577-592

Michael O’Brien

Spatial patterns of labour market deprivation in Scotland: Concentration, isolation and persistence pp. 593-609

Alasdair Rae

A new perspective on the success of public sector worklessness interventions in the UK’s most deprived areas pp. 610-619

John Holden and Baron Frankal

Dutch municipalities and the implementation of social assistance: Making social assistance work pp. 620-628

Marieke Blommesteijn, Geerten Kruis and Roeland van Geuns

Labour market activation in Finland in the 1990s: Workfare reforms and labour market flexibilisation pp. 629-636

Sami Outinen

A double farewell to a former model? Danish unions and activation policy pp. 637-644

Henning Jørgensen and Michaela Schulze

China’s 21st-century welfare reforms pp. 645-650

Jane Duckett

Recent policy changes in the Universal Child Benefit in Japan pp. 651-656

Michihiko Tokoro

Where next for the welfare state? pp. 657-678

Andrew Jones

Melissa Benn, School Wars: The Battle for Britain’s Education pp. 679-682

Deian Hopkin

Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class pp. 682-684

Munir Morad

Colin Leys and Stewart Player, The Plot against the NHS pp. 684-686

Paul Shipman

Volume 27, issue 4, 2012

Natural resource abundance and eminent domain: A case study from Africa pp. 319-325

Franklin Obeng-Odoom

High-growth firms: A new policy paradigm or a need for caution? pp. 326-328

James Derbyshire

Public policy and high growth firms pp. 329-331

David Walburn

A new perspective on local political entrepreneurship: Evidence from Portugal pp. 332-354

Aurora Teixeira and Carina Silva

Rural resilience through continued learning and innovation pp. 355-372

Jane Glover

Working with the homeless: The case of a non-profit organisation in Shanghai pp. 373-387

Heather Xiaoquan Zhang and Jimmy McWhinney

Uplifting small towns in post-apartheid South Africa: The experience of the Amathole Regional Economic Development Agency (Aspire) pp. 388-402

James McKibbin, Tony Binns and Etienne Nel

Does the local economic performance league table lie? Concentric banding and the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010 pp. 403-418

Michael A Nolan, Michael Reynolds and Stephen Trotter

Steffen Mau and Roland Verwiebe (eds) European Societies: Mapping Structure and Change pp. 419-425

Andrew Jones

Denis Dillon and Bryan Fanning, Lessons for the Big Society: Planning, Regeneration and the Politics of Community Participation pp. 426-427

Philip Pinch

Volume 27, issue 3, 2012

Are we there yet? pp. 227-231

Raj Patel

From ‘regionalism’ to ‘localism’: Opportunities and challenges for North East England pp. 232-250

Keith Shaw and Fred Robinson

Swimming against the tide: A study of a neighbourhood trying to rediscover its ‘reason for being’ – the case of South Bank, Redcar and Cleveland pp. 251-264

David McGuinness, Paul Greenhalgh, Gill Davidson, Fred Robinson and Paul Braidford

Does the UK need a SCORE? US and UK SME advisory services compared pp. 265-278

Ron Botham

How accurate are VAT registrations as a measure of entrepreneurship? pp. 279-296

Andrew G Ross, Kenny Crossan and Linda Juleff

The promotion of local wellbeing: A primer for policymakers pp. 297-314

Matthew Rablen

Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy pp. 315-316

Josefina Pérez

Volume 27, issue 2, 2012

A sustainable rural? pp. 91-94

Gerard McElwee and Geoff Whittam

Sustainable rural development in England: Policy problems and equity consequences pp. 95-102

Nigel Curry

Exploring entrepreneurial skills and competencies in farm tourism pp. 103-118

Christopher Phelan and Richard Sharpley

Does the quality of websites vary by location? A study of urban and rural small firms in Scotland pp. 119-135

John Sanders and Laura Galloway

A conceptualisation of the relationship capital of rural small service firms pp. 136-151

David Moyes, Geoffrey Whittam and Paul Ferri

Hyper-local news: A glue to hold rural communities together? pp. 152-166

David Baines

Can social enterprise contribute to creating sustainable rural communities? Using the lens of structuration theory to analyse the emergence of rural social enterprise pp. 167-182

Artur A Steinerowski and Izabella Steinerowska-Streb

The innovation performance of small rural enterprises and cooperatives in Tehran province, Iran pp. 183-192

Seyed Jamal F Hosseini, Gerard McElwee, Shohreh Soltani and David J Smith

Working positively with rural estates: The scale and nature of estates and their contribution to the East Midlands of England pp. 193-208

Jason Beedell, Andrew Teanby and Ivan Annibal

What factors enable community leadership of renewable energy projects? Lessons from a woodfuel heating initiative pp. 209-222

Jennifer C Rogers, Eunice A Simmons, Ian Convery and Andrew Weatherall

Volume 27, issue 1, 2012

Rural transport and social inclusion: The DalesBus Initiative pp. 3-18

Joyce Liddle, Gerard McElwee and John Disney

From the ‘feminization of agriculture’ to the ‘ageing of farming populations’: Demographic transition and farming in a central Chinese village pp. 19-32

Yuqin Huang

Raising the batting average: Re-orientating regional industrial policy to generate more high growth firms pp. 33-49

Ross Brown and Colin Mason

Economic development in the US alters course because of recession pp. 50-54

Catherine S Renault

London’s Olympic legacy and the Imagine methodology pp. 55-67

Simon Bell and Judi Farren Bradley

Redevelopment of development zones: The smart growth of cities in China pp. 68-77

Wang Xingping, Yuan Xinguo and Zhu Kai

Kicking the ladder away: The new generation gap pp. 78-85

Toby Hill

Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts, Edgelands: A Journey into England’s True Wilderness pp. 86-87

Bob Jarvis