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Letter from Edinburgh - governance, economic performance and economic disparities in Scotland (2007)
Journal Article
Brown, R., McQuaid, R. W., & Newlands, D. (2007). Letter from Edinburgh - governance, economic performance and economic disparities in Scotland. Regions, 24-27

John Smith, when Leader of the Labour Party, said that devolution was “the settled will of the Scottish people”. However, far from quelling debates about governance – and particularly the implications for economic policy and performance in Scotland... Read More about Letter from Edinburgh - governance, economic performance and economic disparities in Scotland.

Demographic and Labour Market Change: The Dynamics of Older Workers in the Scottish Labour Market (2007)
Journal Article
Hollywood, E., Brown, R., Danson, M., & McQuaid, R. W. (2007). Demographic and Labour Market Change: The Dynamics of Older Workers in the Scottish Labour Market. Scottish Geographical Journal, 123(4), 242-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702540802189677

This paper presents a review of ageing in the Scottish labour market. Scotland's population structure has been ageing for some decades leading to an ageing of the working population, at a rate ahead of many countries in Europe. Low levels of fertilit... Read More about Demographic and Labour Market Change: The Dynamics of Older Workers in the Scottish Labour Market.

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..

Employers’ responses to demographic changes in rural labour markets: the case of Dumfries and Galloway. (2007)
Journal Article
Hollywood, E., & McQuaid, R. W. (2007). Employers’ responses to demographic changes in rural labour markets: the case of Dumfries and Galloway. Local Economy, 22, 148-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690940701390765

Employers in many rural areas are facing the problem of a declining workforce due to demographic changes in the population. These demographic changes are a result of a combination of population ageing, the in-migration of mainly retired people, out-m... Read More about Employers’ responses to demographic changes in rural labour markets: the case of Dumfries and Galloway..