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 How can cities thrive in the changing economy?
Authors: Alexandra Jones, Neil Lee, Laura Williams, Naomi Clayton and Katy Morris
Date: July 2008
The last ten years of economic growth in the UK is a story of the knowledge economy; and one which has played out in our cities
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 Can ‘good work’ keep employees healthy? Evidence from across the EU
Authors: Rebecca Fauth and Alana McVerry
Date: June 2008
This paper examines the relationship between changing occupations and workers’ health and wellbeing
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 Greening Work
Authors: Nick Isles
Date: June 2008
For many people climate change seems such a large problem that it overwhelms them. For what exactly can organisations expect to do?
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 Towards a Global Labour Market?
Authors: Katerina Rudiger
Date: June 2008
The UK will need to attract more highly skilled workers from abroad - both from the European Union and outside it - in order to secure the future of high technology
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 Can collaboration help places respond?
Authors: Alexandra Jones and Katy Morris
Date: May 2008
In a new analysis of the growing trend towards collaboration among the UK's cities, The Work Foundation warns that having too many collaboration programmes may be counterproductive.
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 Inwardness: The rise of meaningful work
Authors: Stephen Overell
Date: April 2008
Employers cannot create meaning and should not try to. It is up to individuals to find work that is meaningful for them. However, employers are capable of destroying meaning through poor organisation of work
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 Migration Myths: Employment, Wages and Labour Market Performance
Authors: David Coats
Date: April 2008
This report sets out the positive economic case for immigration and argues further managed migration is essential to sustaining economic performance
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 Ideopolis Driver 2: Building on what's there
Authors: Neil Lee
Date: March 2008
This paper seeks to review what policymakers can and cannot take from key areas of urban economics.
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 The Knowledge Economy: How Knowledge is Reshaping the Economic Life of Nations
Authors: Ian Brinkley
Date: March 2008
Argues that the phenomenon of the knowledge economy is driven by the demand for higher value-added goods and services created by more sophisticated, more discerning and better educated consumers and businesses
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 Transforming North Staffordshire Evidence Paper A: The Changing Economy
Authors: Alexandra Jones, Laura Williams, Naomi Clayton and Peter Carroll
Date: March 2008
This evidence paper is part of a series from our review of North Staffordshire's economic situation.
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