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The newly acceded Central and Eastern European states find their rural development strategy should fit into the European Union’s (EU) framework and policy for rural development. The EU’s approach is based on using rural networks for policy implementation, or building networks where...
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A number of powerful forces have produced uneven opportunities for occupational advancement in Scotland. Edinburgh as … social and occupational mobility. One would certainly anticipate that this is true compared with the urban areas in Scotland …, migration, ethnicity, country of birth and place of residence in Scotland. We do this using longitudinal census data linking …
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The idea that living in a deprived neighbourhood negatively affects the occupational mobility of residents has been embraced enthusiastically by many policy makers and academics. As a result, area based initiatives are now widely used to improve an individual's life course through the...
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between HEIs and other activities using a modified HEI-disaggregated input-output model of Scotland. The results suggest that …
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of the arguments that have been raised during the debate is that Scotland is in a worse demographic situation than RUK …-regional OLG-CGE model for Scotland, the rest of the UK (RUK) and the rest of the World (ROW). The model is used to evaluate the … two scenarios: the status quo and the independence scenarios. The status quo scenario assumes that Scotland stays part of …
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The Scottish Referendum of September 2014 was the setting for arguments regarding Scotland?s strengths and weaknesses …, and projections of what could happen in different scenarios. Areas of debate included those on Scotland?s scientific … autonomy if Scotland decided to stay part of the UK. This paper outlines the perception of Scotland as a strong scientific and …
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a case-study the Cairngorms National Park (CNP) in Scotland is used. In this area, policy makers ”at different … demonstrates how, even for small areas such as the CNP in Scotland, survey information combined with secondary data and existing …
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On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. We analyze vote and turnout shares across 380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum...
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internationalisation process of higher education in Scotland and 2) to investigate which measures are most effective for accomplishing … views of representatives of all 19 Scottish universities of Scotland, as to the current situation in their country. The … possible within the Erasmus+ project developed in 2017, titled 'University Study Visit: Youth and Community Work in Scotland …
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, though implementation dates only from 2011 in Scotland and from 2013 in England and Wales. The focus of this paper is a …
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