GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION IN THE LABOR-MARKET ADJUSTMENT PROCESS - THE UK COALFIELDS 1981-91

Authors
BEATTY C FOTHERGILL S LAWLESS P
Citation
C. Beatty et al., GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION IN THE LABOR-MARKET ADJUSTMENT PROCESS - THE UK COALFIELDS 1981-91, Environment & planning A, 29(11), 1997, pp. 2041-2060
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Environmental Studies",Geografhy
Journal title
Environment & planning A → ACNP
ISSN journal
0308518X
Volume
29
Issue
11
Year of publication
1997
Pages
2041 - 2060
Database
ISI
SICI code
0308-518X(1997)29:11<2041:GVITLA>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
During the 1980s and early 1990s the UK coal industry shed more than 9 0% of its workforce. In this paper we explore the consequences for dif ferent coalfields and individual districts by means of comprehensive ' labour-market accounts'. The impact of job loss on recorded unemployme nt shows remarkably little variation, but this disguises considerably greater diversity in other labour-market flows. There is evidence that much unemployment has become 'hidden' and that the disparities betwee n areas are much larger than official figures suggest.