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Trip-Multiple Stops: Houston, Alexandria
No full textTextFilm: 8mm digitized by the Texas Archive of the Moving Image.This digitized film from the Donald S. Nelson collection shows ground-level scenes and aerial views of downtown Houston, Texas, including the Cullen Center and Hotel America, Sheraton-Lincoln Hotel, Interstate 45, and Sam Houston Park. It also shows the exterior and grounds of the Rapides Parish Courthouse in Alexandria, Louisiana.UT Librarie
Life is too short to be serious all the time: Donald Duck presents unconventional motivations for publishing in academia
Full text linkIn this food for thought article, we introduce the ‘Donald Duck Phenomenon’ to consider ten unconventional reasons for publishing in academia. These include (i) symbolic immortality, (ii) personal satisfaction, (iii) a sense of pride, (iv) serious leisure, (v) cause credibility, (vi) altruism, (vii) collaboration with a friend or family member, (viii) collaboration with a hero, (ix) conflict or revenge, and (x) for amusement. The article was inspired by the lead author’s social media search for a co-author with the surname ‘Duck’. Through LinkedIn, the lead author, Associate Professor William E. Donald, who is based in the UK and specialises in Sustainable Careers and Human Resource Management, found a collaborator, Dr Nicholas Duck, based in Australia and specialises in Organisational Psychology. While the collaboration may appear somewhat ‘quackers’, per one of Donald Duck’s famous phrases, “Life is too short to be serious all the time, so if you can’t laugh at yourself then call me… I’ll laugh at you, for you”. We hope that this article offers some interesting insights, particularly for academics at the start of their scholarly journey, and acts as a way to stimulate conversation around unconventional reasons for publishing in academia
Fit for work? Health, employability and challenges for the UK welfare reform agenda
Full text linkThis article introduces a special issue of Policy Studies entitled “Fit for work? Health, employability and challenges for the UK welfare reform agenda”. Growing from a shared concern over the need to expand the evidence base around the processes that led to large numbers of people claiming disability benefits in the UK, it brings together contributions from leading labour market and social policy researchers providing evidence and commentary on major reforms to Incapacity Benefit (IB) in the UK. This special issue address three key questions: what are the main causes of the long-term rise in the number of people claiming IBs; what will reduce the number of claimants; and what is likely to deliver policy effectively and efficiently? This introduction first explains and examines the challenges to reforms to IB in the UK, and then, in conclusion, highlights the answers to the previous three questions – first, labour market restructuring and marginalisation have driven the rise in numbers claiming IBs. Second, economic regeneration in the Britain’s less prosperous areas coupled with intensive and sustained supply-side support measures will bring numbers down. Third, delivery need to be flexible and tailored to individual needs and needs to be able to access local and expert knowledge in a range of organisations, including Job Centre Plus, the NHS as well as the private and voluntary sectors
The impact of Long COVID on the UK workforce
Full text linkCOVID-19 is more likely to lead to Long COVID among persons of working age. We outline the first estimates of the impact of Long Covid on employment in the UK. Using estimates of cumulative prevalence of Long COVID, activity-limiting Long COVID in the working-age population and of economic inactivity and job loss resulting from Long COVID, we provide evidence of the profound impact of Long COVID on national labour supply. Since the start of the pandemic, cumulatively 2.9 million people of working age (7% of the total) in the UK have had, or still have, Long COVID. This figure will continue to rise due to very high infection rates in the Omicron wave. Since the beginning of the pandemic, economic inactivity due to long-term sickness has risen by 120,900 among the working-age population, fuelling the UK’s current labour shortage. An estimated 80,000 people have left employment due to Long COVID. We argue that governments need to tackle the twin challenges to public health and labour supply and provide employment protection and financial support for individuals and firms affected by Long COVID.</p
Fit for work? Representations and explanations of the disability benefits 'crisis' in the UK and beyond
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Revisiting the gender gap incommuting through self-employment
No full textThis study employs a novel method to shed new light on disagreement in the literature over the relative contributions of household responsibilities vs labour market factors, and of preferences vs constraints, in accounting for shorter commutes among women. The self-employed are used as comparison group to employees as they have a greater choice over their work location thus enabling us to better control for locational labour market constraints on commutes that typically apply to employees. We use longitudinal data for the United Kingdom and modelling techniques that address issues of selection effects into self-employment and unobserved heterogeneity, for example personality traits, preferences and gender role attitudes. We find little evidence for a gender gap in commuting time among the self-employed suggesting that women do not have a preference per se for short commutes while existing evidence of shorter commutes of women among employees is confirmed. This longitudinal study demonstrates that gender patterns among employees’ commutes are better explained by labour market factors than household responsibility. We conclude that gendered labour market spatial structures and opportunities are more powerful constraints on women’s commuting than the domestic sphere
The intra-urban residential and workplace locations of small business owners
No full textThe notion that buzz, creativity, diversity, openness and a sense of bohemia in cities are important to attract creative workers and entrepreneurs has grown in prominence both in academic literatures and in city economic development strategies. However, there is a disjuncture in the literature and dearth of evidence as to whether entrepreneurs seek bohemian (open, diverse) places in which to live or to locate their business. This study explores the kinds of neighborhood small business owners, in particular entrepreneurial small business owners, live and work in, and the extent to which their intra-urban locational patterns diverge from the general working population. Survey data of small business owners in Edinburgh (UK) uniquely capturing both business location and the residential location of the business owner, and Census data covering all workers with workplaces in Edinburgh are used. Findings support the attraction of some entrepreneurs to bohemian neighborhoods both as places to live and as places to work. Equally, however, findings stress the importance of a diversity of neighborhood types, including attractive suburban neighborhoods, due to business cycle and personal life course effects making non-bohemian neighborhoods also attractive to small business owners
The unevenness in the local economic impact of COVID-19 presents a serious challenge to the government’s ‘levelling up’ agenda
No full textDonald Houston illustrates how places with the weakest economies prior to the lockdown have been hardest hit during the pandemic, with seaside towns, rural coastal areas, and the north and southwest of England being particularly affected. Affluent and high-tech or high-productivity areas, and to some extent industrial areas, are least affected
Sanford Bates Correspondence to Donald Hendricks Letter
No full textThe first page of a letter addressed to Donald Hendricks from Sanford Bates concerning books from Bates' library to be transferred to Sam Houston State University
Sanford Bates Correspondence to Donald Hendricks
No full textA letter addressed to Donald Hendricks from Sanford Bates concerning books from Bates' library to be transferred to Sam Houston State University. A list of books is attached
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