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Anne Green
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Professor of Regional Economic Development, City-REDI, University of Birmingham. Interested in the geography of labour markets, employment, non-employment, migration, commuting, skills, local economic development, public policy, etc.
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As well as the full #workingfromhome project report, the findings are broken down into 5 policy briefings

First @anne-e-green.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social reviews evidence on changing work patterns & labour mobility, effects on UK economic geography & policy

www.cpc.ac.uk/docs/PB83_Re...
CPC-CG Policy Briefing 83 front cover from May 2025 Regional differentials, changing working patterns and high-skilled labour mobility: An overview There are ongoing policy concerns around regional inequalities, productivity weakness and the underperformance of the UK’s second-tier cities. Human capital (the knowledge, skills, experiences and attributes of the workforce) is an important factor for the economic and social well-being of people and places. The geographically uneven distribution of high-skilled labour has been identified as a major contributor to regional inequalities. The migration of young people to university, followed by job-related moves of graduates and high-skilled workers, leads to a concentration of high-skilled labour in London, the Greater South East and in large cities. The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated pre-existing trends in the take-up of remote/hybrid/home working with the potential to alter the economic geography of the UK. This briefing reviews evidence from the UK and abroad on changing working patterns and high-skilled labour mobility, their potential for reshaping the UK’s economic geography, and the associated challenges for policy
May 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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And for the full analysis and findings, explore the #workingfromhome project report

www.cpc.ac.uk/docs/2025_Wo...

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Image shows front cover of the ESRC Centre for Population Change Report: Working from home: Impacts on residential mobility and spatial inequality The report cover has an image of Birmingham Centenary Square, Image credit istock.com/holgs 2022. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The propensity of individuals to work from home (WFH) all or some of the time (known as remote and hybrid working respectively) has proliferated since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. The growth of WFH has been particularly pronounced amongst skilled workers. The rise of WFH, in effectively decoupling the geography of home and work, in theory presents opportunities for addressing regional inequalities. In the UK case this would involve the redistribution of human capital and economic activity from areas with ‘overheating’ property markets to other relatively affordable parts of the country, thus producing a more equitable distribution of human capital and productive economic activity. The main objective of this research is to elucidate the relationship between WFH and residential mobility amongst skilled workers and to consider its implications for spatial inequalities. The analysis draws on the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) and a three-city case study approach to assess how the rise of WFH has influenced residential mobilities and the distribution of human capital in the UK. The investigation concludes that the types of places that were doing relatively well pre-pandemic have continued to do so post-pandemic in terms of their ability to attract and retain human capital. The residential mobility of skilled human capital has not been drastically changed by the rise in WFH. The potential for WFH to transform spatial inequalities is thus limited. This paper also contains critical reflections on the availability of secondary quantitative data to address these important policy topics and offers some recommendations in this respect.
May 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM