Area Regeneration
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This unique report examines the uneven pattern of economic and employment change across Britain in the last two decades, focusing on the 20 largest cities. It explores how the workforce has responded (eg through outmigration, outcommuting and reduced economic participation), and looks at the impact on recorded unemployment.The authors argue that an understanding of these effects is vital to urban policy and area regeneration, as well as to a range of national economic and social policies that are currently insensitive to geographical disparities. The focus is at the city-wide scale to provide the overview and essential context within which local and neighbourhood level processes and policies need to be located.The report suggests that outmigration and outcommuting provide inadequate responses to urban economic problems, and that a more thoroughgoing policy of employment expansion is needed.The jobs gap in Britain's cities provides a clear and accessible analysis of employment trends and problems, and has important implications for many different strands of economic and social policy, including policies towards unemployment, welfare reform, urban regeneration and regional development. It is important reading, therefore, for policy makers at national and local government levels, researchers at various levels and teachers in universities and higher education.