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Regional Problems and Regional Policy

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The work that can be so far summarised is concerned with five main questions. First, what are the extent and nature of the waste of human resources implicit in the existence of differences between regions in the labour market, widely interpreted? Secondly, what are the extent and nature of inter-regional differences of real income? Thirdly, what is the nature of the differences between growth-rates of industrial employment in different regions? Fourthly, what is the general pattern of inter-regional movement of population and of job opportunities and (very tentatively) is there any sign that regional population growth is part of a self-reinforcing process? And, finally, what can be said about the effects of government policy on the distribution of industry and employment in recent years?

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Research Article
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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 46 , November 1968 , pp. 42 - 51
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Copyright © 1968 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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Footnotes

This article describes results so far achieved in the National Institute's study of regional economic development in the United Kingdom, which is supported by a grant from the Department of Economic Affairs. It was prepared at the National Institute by Professor A. J. Brown of the University of Leeds, with the assistance of J. K. Bowers, P. C. Cheshire, H. G. Lind, and V. H. Woodward of the National Institute. It is hoped that working papers on particular sections of the study will be published during 1969.

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note (1) page 42 The regions referred to in the article are in the main the Old Standard Regions’, which until 1962 coincided with the Ministry of Labour regions. But where Ministry of Labour statistics for years before and after 1962 are used it has sometimes been necessary to combine the two Midland regions and the East and West Ridings (or Yorkshire and Lincoln shire) region. The old standard South and East regions were also combined for Ministry of Labour purposes in 1962.

note (1) page 45 R. W. Fowler, Duration of unemployment on the register of wholly unemployed’, Central Statistical Office, Studies in Official Statistics, Research Series no. 1, 1968.

note (1) page 48 R. S. Howard, The Movement of Manufacturing Industry, 1945-65’, HMSO 1968.

note (1) page 49 Report of the Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population, Cmnd 6153, 1940.

note (1) page 51 Annual Report by the Board of Trade under the Industrial Development Act 1966, HMSO, 1968.