The paper investigates the changes in job creation and destruction flows at a very disaggregated level of analysis. We analyse whether job flows at lower levels of spatial aggregation display regularities that are in line with national ones in a bid to disentangle the role of labour market...

This paper considers the estimation of putative neoclassical aggregate labour demand functions using constant price value data. Regression results normally find that employment is negatively related to the real wage and that the constant-output elasticity of employment with respect to the real...

The aim of this article is to contribute to the conceptual platforms for a critical and creative approach to economic development. Economic development is a practical matter, but practice depends on the frame within which the situation is experienced, conceptually and emotionally. At a general...

Creativity does not result from the talents of a few individuals, but, on the contrary, nourishes itself from the repeated exchanges among a variety of heterogeneous entities that all contribute in their own way to foster the development of new ideas. As a result, the creative activity must be...

Recent university reforms tend to mean budget cuts, economic incentives at all levels and a more powerful management, in the spirit of the new public management. Performance-based pay is often motivated through the principal-agent theory where agents would provide inadequate efforts under a...

Emphasising power in strategic choice, we consider people in actual and potential publics kindling their imagination and ideas in order to shape new directions in the economies in which they have an interest. This paper proposes 'public creativity forums', spaces defined by relations aimed at...

In this paper, we explore the role that cooperation plays in a small-scale creative sector, namely that of UK studio pottery. Drawing upon data from a survey of studio potters, we examine the extent to which these artists cooperate with others in their production activities and then assess the...