Interpreting business mobility through socio-economic differentiation. Greek firm relocation to Bulgaria before and after the 2007 global economic crisis

Kapitsinis, Nikolaos

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.08.002

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“…Specifically, peripheral labour markets provide limited employment opportunities and lack job vacancies in specific sectors. Particularly in Greece many small enterprises, which are still the ‘backbone’ of peripheral economies, went bankrupt in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis (Kapitsinis, 2018). Indicatively, a woman living in Kalimnos (GR_3), an insular, peripheral area of Greece, said: ‘The opportunities for a Geography graduate here are limited.…”

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Being NEET in Youthspaces of the EU South: A Post-recession Regional Perspective

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Youth unemployment and precarity have been expanding in the aftermath of the recent global recession. This article offers a theoretically informed empirical examination of the spatio-temporally uneven expansion of young people ‘Not in Employment, Education or Training’ (NEETs) between 2008 and 2018 in the European Union (EU) South, namely in Italy, Spain, Greece and Cyprus. This article contributes to the growing literature on youth inactivity and marginalization, by focusing on the spatial, rather than just the temporal dimension of youth which marks most relevant studies. The analysis engages with the concept of ‘youthspaces’ to critically analyse the economic, social and political spatialities that determine the dynamic relationship between youth and the labour market, and discuss the persistently high NEET rate in the EU South. Employing a mixed-methods approach, we highlight that gender, class, education and economic growth are key socio-spatial factors that determine the geographically uneven expansion of NEETs across the study regions.

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Being NEET in Youthspaces of the EU South: A Post-recession Regional Perspective

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“…Evidence from previous recessionary shocks suggests that it is the weakest local and regional economies that are likely to experience the greatest economic impact (Fingleton et al, 2012;Han & Goetz, 2015;Ibl et al, 2018;Kapitsinis, 2018;Kitsos & Bishop, 2018;Webber et al, 2018;Wójcik, 2009). Specifically, in relation to unemployment, pre-lockdown unemployment is likely to indicate underlying susceptibility to unemployment, including susceptibility to rising unemployment during the lockdown (Lee, 2014).…”

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“…Initial indications are that mass unemployment is likely. In normal circumstances, weaker local economies tend to be hit harder and for longer by economic recessions, with protective effects deriving from sectoral specialization, diversity, dynamism and productivity (Fingleton, Garretsen, & Martin, 2012;Han & Goetz, 2015;Ibl, Svoboda, & Siegert, 2018;Kapitsinis, 2018;Kitsos & Bishop, 2018;Webber, Healy, & Bristow, 2018;Wójcik, 2009). Resilience approaches to understanding the impact of recessionary shocks suggest a degree of path dependency, with pre-shock trajectories displaying some inertia and resistance to the shock (Martin, 2018).…”

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Local resistance to rising unemployment in the context of the COVID‐19 mitigation policies across Great Britain

Houston

2020

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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Policies to arrest the rapid spread of the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in whole sectors of the economy and social life being either entirely locked down or severely curtailed in the Spring of 2020. This paper uses a resilience framework to analyse two aspects of ability to resist rising unemployment at local level across Great Britain during the early part of the Covid-19 pandemic when full 'lockdown' measures were in place: (i) level of pre-lockdown unemployment; and (ii) share of employment in sectors most affected by the lockdown. Findings reveal that pre-lockdown unemployment is a stronger predictor than sector mix of the rise in unemployment in the first month of the lockdown. This finding underlines the importance of spatially rebalancing the UK economy, including strong local and regional economic development policies, in order to build resilience to future recessionary shocks.

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“…Consequently, most researchers who solved the problem of adapting the industrial enterprise to the crisis through diversification did not pay enough attention to forecasting crises, formalizing the process of assessing the current or future crisis, and to the diversification not only as a response to the crisis, but also as a preservation of the general vector of strategic development. Kapitsinis N. (2018). In the theory of systems, the crisis is considered as the state of the system, in which its parameters take threshold, critical values.…”

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Scientific and methodical approach to adaptive diversification of industrial enterprise development under crisis conditions

Tarasova

2018

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The article establishes that Ukrainian enterprises operate in the conditions of permanent economic crises and changes in the economic environment as a result of further integration of Ukraine into the world markets. This leads to the discrepancy between the state of domestic industrial enterprises and the requirements of the economic environment. To solve this problem, a scientific and methodical approach has been developed to adapt the diversification of the industrial enterprise development in a crisis that is based on the assessment of the existing and potential crises and the formalization of the assessment of the crisis impact, which enables an industrial enterprise to justify diversification measures in order to adapt to the crisis and to save the planned strategic development benchmarks

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Interpreting business mobility through socio-economic differentiation. Greek firm relocation to Bulgaria before and after the 2007 global economic crisis

Cited by 17 publications

References 38 publications

Being NEET in Youthspaces of the EU South: A Post-recession Regional Perspective

Being NEET in Youthspaces of the EU South: A Post-recession Regional Perspective

Local resistance to rising unemployment in the context of the COVID‐19 mitigation policies across Great Britain

Scientific and methodical approach to adaptive diversification of industrial enterprise development under crisis conditions

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