Sinnett, D and Norman, P orcid.org/0000-0002-6211-1625 (Cover date: January 2024) Changes in unemployment and permanent sickness in England’s East Midlands coalfields, 1971–2011. Regional Studies, 58 (1). pp. 61-77. ISSN 0034-3404
Abstract
The UK coal industry was an important part of the economy, but it experienced substantial job losses during the 1980s and 1990s. To alleviate the resulting socio-economic problems, many areas received regeneration funds. We examine to what extent relative unemployment and permanent sickness and disability in the coalfields of the East Midlands changed between 1971 and 2011. Over this period rates of permanent sickness and disability have increased, and the gap widened between coalfields and non-coalfields. In contrast, unemployment has decreased at a faster rate in the coalfields. However, both outcomes are better in those coalfields that were less dependent on mining.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Objective 2 regeneration, funding, inequality, illness, mining, deindustrialisation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > Centre for Spatial Analysis & Policy (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Nuffield Foundation WEL /FR-000023253 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 May 2023 15:12 |
Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2024 13:40 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/00343404.2023.2191642 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:199213 |