We analysed 90,000 contracts involving UK local authorities between 2015 and 2019 to examine patterns and potential …

the new institutional geographies of devolution and state restructuring, particularly in the UK. As part of perhaps the … biggest change to the UK state since the Acts of Union, the Labour Party has established the Scottish Parliament, elected …

Hendry C. and Brown J. (2006) Dynamics of clustering and performance in the UK opto-electronics industry, Regional … for individual enterprises and regions. This proposition is tested through a survey of an under-researched sector, the UK …-U Dynamique Hendry C. und Brown J. (2006) Die Dynamik der Clusterbildung und Leistung in der opto-elektronischen Industrie des UK …

Evans D., Kula E. and Sezer H. (2005) Regional welfare weights for the UK: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern …. Estimates of these weights are then provided for the four countries comprising the UK. Welfare weights now have a very high … policy profile following the special emphasis placed by the UK Treasury, in its recently revised guidance on appraisal and …

economy: the Irish experience, Reg. Studies 32, 223-234. GDP per capita in Ireland increased from 60% to 90% of the UK average … similar magnitude. Industry of origin comparisons were used to benchmark Ireland/UK labour productivity in 1935, 1968 and 1985 …

Dow S. C. and Montagnoli A. (2007) The regional transmission of UK monetary policy, Regional Studies 41, 797 …-808. Concerns have been raised in the media about a 'one-size-fits-all' monetary policy for the UK. If there are diverse economic …. This requires a consideration of the nature and causes of regional economic disparities in the UK, and how these might be …

Hoare A. and Corver M. The regional geography of new young graduate labour in the UK, Regional Studies. Using a newly … constructed database of UK undergraduates' previous residences, universities, and first employment, this paper develops a … recruitment pathways. The model is then applied to the UK regional system for four successive graduating cohorts from 1998/99. The …

setting new directions for UK regional policy and proposing radical changes in European Union regional policy as well. This … paper provides a critical review of the three UK government reports that underpin the new approach. It argues that the new … approach takes insufficient account of accumulated knowledge or of the long history of UK regional policy. The new approach …