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CATEGORIES:St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series
SUMMARY:St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - Profess
 or Christina Beatty -'Reducing economic inactivity
  in the UK:  An economic and political imperative'
   - Christina Beatt
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/221908
DESCRIPTION:*Speaker:* Professor Christina Beatty \n\n*Title:*
 'Reducing economic inactivity in the UK:  An econo
 mic and political imperative'\n\n*Time:* 19 Februa
 ry 2025\, 18:00-19:30\n\n*Location:* The Ramsden R
 oom\, St Catharine's College.\n\nThe next St Catha
 rine’s Political Economy Seminar will be held on W
 ednesday\, 19 February 2025. Professor Christina B
 eatty  will give a talk on “Reducing economic inac
 tivity in the UK:  An economic and political imper
 ative”. The seminar will beheld in the Ramsden Roo
 m at St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All
  are welcome. The seminar series is supported by t
 he Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economic
 s and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business
  School.\n\n*Talk Overview:*\n\nEconomic inactivit
 y has increasingly come to the fore of contemporar
 y political and policy debates. Unemployment is lo
 w\, vacancies are high and labour shortages in spe
 cific sectors are common\, and yet employment rate
 s remain stubbornly below pre-pandemic levels. Cen
 tral to understanding this conundrum is the substa
 ntial increase in the number of working age adults
  who are not actively participating in the labour 
 market – those neither in employment nor unemploye
 d.  The UK labour market has therefore emerged fro
 m the pandemic with an economic inactivity problem
  rather than an unemployment problem.  However\, n
 ational assessments of the issue often only provid
 e an aggregate overview\, whereas in reality a ver
 y distinct economic geography underpins the phenom
 enon.  If national\, regional and local government
  are to understand the trends\, and develop policy
  solutions to address the issue\, then the geograp
 hy of economic inactivity needs to be recognised. 
  Christina Beatty will draw on a range of research
  projects to illustrate the geography of economic 
 inactivity in Britain and factors associated with 
 recent observed trends in both the benefits system
  and the Labour Force Survey. The evidence present
 ed questions whether the political rhetoric drivin
 g recent policy direction to increase the conditio
 nality requirements for Universal Credit claimants
  is likely to have the desired effect of increasin
 g labour market participation.\n\n*Speaker Overvie
 w:*\n\nChristina is a Professor of Applied Economi
 c Geography in the Centre for Regional Economic an
 d Social Research (CRESR) at Sheffield Hallam Univ
 ersity. She is a social statistician by background
  with over 30 years’ experience of undertaking app
 lied policy research. Christina is particularly in
 terested in the intersection of welfare reform\, l
 abour markets\, and housing policy in Britain. Her
  research often seeks to highlight the sub-regiona
 l impacts and unintended consequences of national 
 policy decisions for different types of places in 
 varied local economic contexts. Her research often
  focuses on the uneven impact of welfare reform\; 
 the dynamics of hidden unemployment and incapacity
  benefits\; older industrial Britain\; former coal
 field areas\; and Britain’s seaside towns. Christi
 na has also worked on a number of large scale nati
 onal policy evaluations for several central govern
 ment departments. These include: The New Deal for 
 Communities Evaluation\; the Evaluation of Reforms
  to Local Housing Allowance System\; and the 2023 
 Supported Housing Review.  \n\nThis talk is part o
 f the St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar Ser
 ies series. www.politicaleconomy.group.cam.ac.uk
LOCATION:The Ramsden Room\, St Catharine's College
CONTACT:Philippa Millerchip
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