RESEARCH PROFILE

Local and regional labour markets; spatial aspects of economic, social and demographic change; trends in employment and non-unemployment; policies to address worklessness; demand for and supply of skills; labour market information and other local indicators; migration and commuting; urban, rural and regional development; evaluation studies - welfare-to-work and area regeneration initiatives.

BACKGROUND

Current and recent research concerns the impacts of labour migration and geographical mobility more generally (including long distance commuting), the geography of employment and worklessness, local skills strategies, and the role of social networks and place attachment in understanding labour market behaviour. Anne has contributed to evaluations of welfare-to-work programmes and area-based initiatives and is leading the national evaluation of the City Strategy initiative.

Anne is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Arts, an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the Regional Studies Association. She is a member of the Regeneration and Economic Development Expert Panel established by the Department of Communities and Local Government and of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills Expert Panel. She is Chair of the West Midlands Regional Observatory's Economy and Labour Force Topic Group.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Regional Expert Network, with Dr Maria G De Hoyos Guajardo - Institute for Employment Research, Funded by: Department for Business Innovation and Skills, Project Start Date: 13/02/2012 Project End Date: 12/02/2014
• Visiting Research Fellowship (Anne Green) 2012/13, Funded by: UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), Project Start Date: 02/04/2012 Project End Date: 29/03/2013 [details]
• Quantitative Analysis of Poverty and Ethnicity in Wales, with Dr David W Owen, Institute for Employment Research, - Professor Anne E Green - Institute for Employment Research, Funded by: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Project Start Date: 19/12/2011 Project End Date: 29/06/2012
• The Geography of the Labour Market: a Focus on Young People, Funded by: Skills Development Scotland, Project Start Date: 05/03/2012 Project End Date: 29/06/2012
• Stocktake of worklessness policy analysis and dissemination, with Mr Duncan Adam, Miss Gaby Atfield - Institute for Employment Research -, Funded by: Department for Work & Pensions, Project Start Date: 06/02/2012 Project End Date: 04/06/2012
• ICT4EMPL: Literature review on employability, inclusion and ICT, with Ms Beate K Baldauf, Dr Sally-Anne Barnes, Dr Heike J Behle, Dr Maria G De Hoyos Guajardo, Dr David W Owen - Institute for Employment Research, Funded by: EC DG Joint Research Centre, Project Start Date: 05/12/2011 Project End Date: 31/05/2012
  
  

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Green, A. E. (2011) 'Impact of economic downturn and migration: a discussion paper commissioned from the regeneration and economic development analysis expert panel', 1 - 37, London: Department for Communities and Local Government, Prepared for the migration directorate, DCLG [Report] [view]
• Green, A. E., Adam, D. and Hasluck, C. (2010) 'Evaluation of phase 1 city strategy', Department for work and pensions research report 639, 1 - 170, Norwich: Department for Work and Pensions, Research report no 639 [Report to Government] [view]
• Green, A. E., De Hoyos, M., Jones, P. and Owen, D.(2009) 'Rural development and labour supply challenges in the UK: the role of non-UK migrants' Regional Studies 43 (10), 1261 - 1273 (0034-3404)
• Green, A. E. and Hasluck, C.(2009) 'Action to reduce worklessness: what works?' Local Economy 24 (1), 28 - 37 (0269-0942)
• Green, A. E.(2009) 'Labor markets: regional' in International encyclopaedia of human geography, 85 - 90, Editors: Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (9780080449111), Amsterdam ; London: Elsevier Science

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