Personalized activation policies for the long-term unemployed: the role of local governance in the UK. (2016)
Book Chapter
Fuertes, V., & McQuaid, R. (2016). Personalized activation policies for the long-term unemployed: the role of local governance in the UK. In M. Heidenreich, & D. Rice (Eds.), Integrating social and employment policies in europe: active inclusion and chall

In Chapter 5 on the UK, Vanesa Fuertes and Ronald McQuaid study how coordinated activation policies, which have been a core part of the UK welfare state since at least the 1990s, are implemented locally. Although service coordination is officially ac... Read More about Personalized activation policies for the long-term unemployed: the role of local governance in the UK..

Local worlds of coordinated activation policy. (2016)
Book Chapter
Zimmermann, K., Fuertes, V., & Aurich-Beerheide, P. (2016). Local worlds of coordinated activation policy. In M. Heidenreich, & D. Rice (Eds.), Integrating social and employment policies in europe: active inclusion and challenges for local welfare governa

In Chapter 11 on local worlds of coordinated activation in Europe, Katharina Zimmermann, Vanesa Fuertes and Patrizia Aurich-Beerheide shed light on the role of the local level as a generic actor in the organization of activation. The authors apply a... Read More about Local worlds of coordinated activation policy..

Sustainable integration of the long term unemployed: From Work First to Career First. (2014)
Book Chapter
McQuaid, R. W., & Fuertes, V. (2014). Sustainable integration of the long term unemployed: From Work First to Career First. In C. Larsen, S. Rand, A. Schmid, & R. Keil (Eds.), Sustainable Economy and Sustainable Employment: Approaches to Measuring Sustain

In recent decades, governmental approaches to employment activation policy in many countries have been driven by principles of individual skills development with a focus on “Work First” approaches. While moving into work is seen as the main way out o... Read More about Sustainable integration of the long term unemployed: From Work First to Career First..

Intra-regional and inter-regional geographical mobility. (2011)
Book Chapter
Egdell, V., & McQuaid, R. W. (2011). Intra-regional and inter-regional geographical mobility. In C. Larsen, R. Hasberg, A. Schmid, M. Bittner, & F. Clément (Eds.), Measuring Geographical Mobility in Regional Labour Market Monitoring – State of the Art

The capabilities approach as a framework for labour market information on young people. (2010)
Book Chapter
Lindsay, C., & McQuaid, R. W. (2010). The capabilities approach as a framework for labour market information on young people. In C. Larsen, J. Kipper, & A. Schmid (Eds.), Regional Monitoring Approaches for the Reduction and the Prevention of Youth Unemplo

This paper considers some of the potential uses of the capabilities approach to widen and deepen the labour market information that we collect on youth employment and unemployment.

Users of ICT job information services in rural areas. (2009)
Book Chapter
Lindsay, C., & McQuaid, R. W. (2009). Users of ICT job information services in rural areas. In C. Larsen, W. Mathejczyk, J. Kipper, & A. Schmid (Eds.), Web based labour market Information systems in European states (175-185). Rainer Hampp Verlag

Employment and employability (2008)
Book Chapter
McQuaid, R. W. (2008). Employment and employability. In M. A. Mulhern, J. Beech, & E. Thompson (Eds.), Scottish Life and Society, the working life of Scots (67-84). Birlinn, University of Edinburgh

Decision frontiers in supply chain networks. (2008)
Book Chapter
Pearson, M. (2008). Decision frontiers in supply chain networks. In A. Dwivedi, & T. Butcher (Eds.), Supply Chain Management and Knowledge Management: Integrating critical perspectives in theory and practice (137-150). Palgrave MacMillan

We outline a new approach to the analysis of supply chains which uncovers a duality between networks as knowledge structures and networks as decision-making structures. The work incorporates a network transformation which introduces, under fairly gen... Read More about Decision frontiers in supply chain networks..

Educational migration – students leaving a region to study elsewhere: the link to religion in Northern Ireland (2007)
Book Chapter
Hollywood, E., & McQuaid, R. W. (2007). Educational migration – students leaving a region to study elsewhere: the link to religion in Northern Ireland. In C. Larsen, W. Mathejczyk, J. Kipper, & A. Schmid (Eds.), Monitoring of Regional Labour Markets in

This paper reviews data sources concerning the key patterns and drivers of educational migration and non-return in Northern Ireland (NI). In particular it considers the sources of data that can be used to analyse the migration of university undergra... Read More about Educational migration – students leaving a region to study elsewhere: the link to religion in Northern Ireland.

Aging of the labour force and globalization. (2007)
Book Chapter
McQuaid, R. W. (2007). Aging of the labour force and globalization. In R. Cooper, K. Donaghy, & G. Hewings (Eds.), Globalization and Regional Economic Modelling (69-85). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72444-5_5

The rapid aging of the population structure across most developed countries is one of the main challenges facing their economies and governments (CEC 2004a).1 These changes will have significant impacts upon pension and healthcare costs, the demand f... Read More about Aging of the labour force and globalization..

Fractals, complexity and chaos in supply chain networks. (2006)
Book Chapter
Pearson, M. (2006). Fractals, complexity and chaos in supply chain networks. In M. M. Novak (Ed.), Complexus Mundi: emergent patterns in nature (135-145). World Scientific Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812774217_0011

Recent work identifying an equilibrium solution in a supply chain network through cooperation and coordination along edges (links) in the network identifies the links as the stochastic modelling entities rather than the nodes of the network. This has... Read More about Fractals, complexity and chaos in supply chain networks..

Contact centres in the peripheral areas: experience from the NW of England. (2006)
Book Chapter
Peck, F., & Cabras, I. (2006). Contact centres in the peripheral areas: experience from the NW of England. In E. Beira (Ed.), Peripheral Regions, Development and Contact Centres (11-22). Camara Municipal de Braqanca

The concept of employability. (2006)
Book Chapter
McQuaid, R. W., & Lindsay, C. (2006). The concept of employability. In R. W. McQuaid, A. E. Green, & M. Danson (Eds.), Employability and Local Labour Market Policy (1-5). Routledge

Edinburgh and its hinterland (2004)
Book Chapter
McQuaid, R. W. (2004). Edinburgh and its hinterland. In Divided Scotland: the nature causes and consequences of economic disparities within Scotland (18-34). Ashgate Publishing

Changing nature of work and transport. (2003)
Book Chapter
McQuaid, R. W. (2003). Changing nature of work and transport. In J. Hine, & J. Preston (Eds.), Integrated Futures and transport choices - UK transport policy beyond the 1998 white paper and transport acts (55-67). Ashgate Publishing

Regional and local policies to support entrepreneurship in the new economy. (2002)
Book Chapter
McQuaid, R. W. (2002). Regional and local policies to support entrepreneurship in the new economy. In Y. Higano, P. Nijkamp, J. Poot, & J. J. V. Wijk (Eds.), The Region in the New Economy. Ashgate Publishing

A model of the commuting range of unemployed job seekers (2001)
Book Chapter
McQuaid, R. W., & Greig, M. (2001). A model of the commuting range of unemployed job seekers. In D. Pitfield (Ed.), Transport Planning, Logistics and Spatial Mismatch (152-166). Pion

The ability or willingness of unemployed people to travel further to a new job will affect the level of mismatch between job seekers and jobs (Brueckner and Martin 1997; Gabriel and Rosenthal, 1996; Holzer, 1991). Empirical evidence suggests that a r... Read More about A model of the commuting range of unemployed job seekers.

The 1999 employment action plan: interpretation of the entrepreneurship pillar in the UK (2000)
Book Chapter
Hollywood, E., Wallis, E., & Winterton, J. (2000). The 1999 employment action plan: interpretation of the entrepreneurship pillar in the UK. In Contested territory. Entrepreneurship in the European Employment Strategy. European Trade Union Institute

This project examined in detail the Entrepreneurship pillar of the European Employment Strategy. The project addressed the role of Entrepreneurship as a tool for job creation in the UK focusing on the relationship between entrepreneurship and SMEs an... Read More about The 1999 employment action plan: interpretation of the entrepreneurship pillar in the UK.

Theory of partnerships - why have partnerships? (2000)
Book Chapter
McQuaid, R. W. (2000). Theory of partnerships - why have partnerships?. In S. P. Osborne (Ed.), Public-private Partnerships for Public Services: An International Perspective (9-35). Routledge

Implications of EU enlargement for the regions in the existing European Union (2000)
Book Chapter
McQuaid, R. W. (2000). Implications of EU enlargement for the regions in the existing European Union. In H. Kohno, P. Nijkamp, & J. Poot (Eds.), Regional Cohesion and Competition in the Age of Globalization (286-308). Edward Elgar