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The impact of devolution: employment and employability
- Authors:
- BIVAND Paul, et al
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 85p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report on employment and employability is from a series on the impact of ten years of devolved government in the United Kingdom. Chapters 2 and 8 detail the extent of devolved power in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and different strategies exhibited to tackle unemployment. The third chapter locates employment rate improvements in the 3 nations within the UK regional pattern. Comparing changes in employment and employability post-devolution with three regions in the non-devolved North of England, by looking at Jobseeker’s Allowance claimant trends for example, revealed substantial progress in raising employment rates pre 2008 recession. However, the authors conclude that devolved government initiatives had no more significance than those arising from UK or Great Britain level policies such as Jobcentre Plus and New Deals. In chapters 4, 5 and 6 each nation’s economic trends and labour markets are compared with those in the North of England. Chapter 7 uses data from the British Household Panel Survey to compare subsequent histories of those in work, unemployed or inactive at devolution and shows again little difference compared with Northern England. Other reports, in the series, detail area based regeneration, indicators of poverty and social exclusion, housing and homelessness and long-term care provision.
Can work eradicate child poverty?
- Authors:
- SIMMONDS Dave, BIVAND Paul
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 31p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report examines the extent to which work can contribute to the eradication of child poverty, and identifies a number of issues that necessarily arise if work is seen as the best route out of poverty. The government has repeatedly stated that work is the best route out of poverty. This implies that work is not the only route, but is the preferred or main route in tackling child poverty. This report examines the extent to which there is underemployment among parents and a desire to work among parents who are not currently working. It examines patterns of work and worklessness among parents and flows between work and workless states for parents, both using survey data and lone-parent benefit claims.