Abstract
The idea that some local areas are characterised by a low-skills equilibrium trap is prominent in academic and policy debates in the Global North. Factors shaping this position and associated implications for local economic development are only partially understood. This article provides new evidence examining employers’ decision-making around investment and workforce management in the hospitality and retail sectors in the Birmingham city-region, UK, and their experience of the low-skills low-wage trap. The findings highlight intersecting sectoral and place-based factors in the emergence of, and barriers to escape from, this position. Responses require policy actions at firm, local and national level.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 333-344 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Regional Studies |
Volume | 55 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 18 Aug 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 18 Aug 2020 |
Funder
Joseph Rowntree Foundation [grant number APE003 001]Keywords
- Skills
- Wages
- Economic performance
- Business models
- Low-skills low-wage trap
- Institutional theory
- business models
- skills
- wages
- economic performance
- low-skills low-wage trap
- institutional theory
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Environmental Science(all)
- Social Sciences(all)
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Kevin Broughton
- Faculty Research Centre for Business in Society - Assistant Professor (Research)
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