Theme issue: New perspectives on employability and labour market policy
Guest editors: Colin Lindsay, Amparo Serrano Pascual
Guest editorial
A gendered theory of employment, unemployment, and sickness 958 – 974
Christina Beatty, Steve Fothergill, Donald Houston, Ryan Powell, Paul Sissons
Rewarding responsibility? Long-term unemployed men and the welfare-to-work agenda 975 – 990
Kathryn Ray, Lesley Hoggart, Rebecca Taylor, Sandra Vegeris, Verity Campbell-Barr
Evidence on employer attitudes and EQUAL opportunities for the disadvantaged in a flexible and open economy 991 – 1007
Mike Danson, Karen Gilmore
The role of social networks and geographical location in labour market participation in the UK coalfields 1008 – 1021
Tony Gore, Emma Hollywood
Tackling concentrated worklessness: integrating governance and policy across and within spatial scales 1022 – 1039
David North, Stephen Syrett, David Etherington
Delivering employability in a vanguard ‘active’ welfare state: the case of Greater Copenhagen in Denmark 1040 – 1054
Colin Lindsay, Mikkel Mailand
The local integration of employment services: assessing network effectiveness of local job centres in Flanders 1055 – 1071
Ludo Struyven, Line Van Hemel
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A multidimensional evaluation of the effectiveness of business incubators: an application of the PROMETHEE outranking method 1072 – 1087
Michael Schwartz, Maximilian Göthner
The economic and innovation contribution of universities: a regional perspective 1088 – 1106
Robert Huggins, Andrew Johnston
Sociospatial geographies of civil war in Sierra Leone and the new global diamond order: is the Kimberley process the panacea? 1107 – 1130
Leo C Zulu, Sigismond A Wilson
Reviews 1131 – 1134
Coenen on Crouch, Voelzkow: Innovation in local economies: Germany in comparative context
Gupta on Shiva: Soil, not oil: climate change, peak oil and food insecurity
Melcalfe on Grafton (Ed.): Economics of water resources
