Working from home and regional disparities: insights for UK policy
Working from home and regional disparities: insights for UK policy
A key issue for UK policy makers, both nationally and locally, is finding viable ways to address deeply entrenched and long-standing regional inequalities, which are firmly implicated in our productivity problem. This is a huge policy challenge, especially when the economy is struggling to achieve growth and public finances are under strain.
This briefing discusses key policy implications from a 10-month research project that sought to understand whether the increase in remote, hybrid and working-from-home arrangements, accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, might help lagging regions attract high-skilled labour and reduce spatial disparities.
ESRC Centre for Population Change
Payne, Jonathan
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McCollum, David
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Taylor, Ian
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Mcgowan, Teresa
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Dey, Becki
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15 May 2025
Payne, Jonathan
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Green, Anne
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McCollum, David
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Taylor, Ian
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Ghazaryan, Armine
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Mcgowan, Teresa
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Payne, Jonathan, Wahba, Jackie, Green, Anne, McCollum, David, Taylor, Ian and Ghazaryan, Armine
,
Mcgowan, Teresa and Dey, Becki
(eds.)
(2025)
Working from home and regional disparities: insights for UK policy
(ESRC Centre for Population Change Connecting Generations Policy Briefing Series, 87)
ESRC Centre for Population Change
4pp.
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Abstract
A key issue for UK policy makers, both nationally and locally, is finding viable ways to address deeply entrenched and long-standing regional inequalities, which are firmly implicated in our productivity problem. This is a huge policy challenge, especially when the economy is struggling to achieve growth and public finances are under strain.
This briefing discusses key policy implications from a 10-month research project that sought to understand whether the increase in remote, hybrid and working-from-home arrangements, accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, might help lagging regions attract high-skilled labour and reduce spatial disparities.
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Published date: 15 May 2025
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Jonathan Payne
Author:
Anne Green
Author:
David McCollum
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Ian Taylor
Author:
Armine Ghazaryan
Editor:
Becki Dey
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