The high-quality academic books, upper-level student texts and journal articles on our Business, Management and Economics list offer fresh perspectives on the economy, the future of work and organisations, and the relationship between business and addressing global social challenges.
The list is home to a number of series including Organizations and Activism and Feminist Perspectives on Work and Organization, all of which are edited by leading scholars from the field, along with our journals in the area: Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, Work in the Global Economy and Global Political Economy.
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This chapter provides a summary of the key findings, along with a discussion of their implications for research, theory and policy making. It then turns to address the research limitations and concludes with an agenda for future research.
This chapter presents and interprets the results obtained from the statistical analyses of the 2000 Families Survey data to shed light upon the poverty impact of international migration for migrants and their descendants. It starts by summarising the key tendencies emerging from the descriptive analyses of the entire sample and the sub-sample of the settlers spread across multiple European destinations. It then outlines the probit results obtained through the comparisons drawn between the settlers, returnees and stayers spanning three family generations. This is followed by a presentation of the results arising from the probit estimations performed with the sub-sample of settlers. The chapter concludes by explaining the narrative behind the statistical findings.
This chapter presents the aims, significance and structure of the book. As well as highlighting the major gaps existing within the international migration literature, it outlines the unique features of the study and explains the significance of its theory-driven, multi-site and intergenerational approach to understanding migrant poverty.
This chapter maps out the empirical works focussed on the relationship between poverty and international migration while situating them within the wider literature that qualitatively or quantitatively examines the socio-economic performances of international migrants and/or their descendants. It then presents the current research evidence on the incidence, persistence and determinants of migrant poverty. It concludes by explaining the ways in which this book will contribute to closing the gaps existing within the field.
International migration is a life-changing process, but do the migrants and their families fare economically better than those who stayed behind?
Drawing on the largest database available on labour migration to Europe, this book seeks to shed light upon this question through an exploration of poverty outcomes for three generations of settler migrants spanning multiple European destinations, as compared with their returnee and stayer counterparts living in Turkey.
As well as documenting generational trends, it investigates the transmission of poverty onto the younger generations. With its unique multi-site and intergenerational perspective, the book provides a rare insight into the economic consequences of international migration for migrants and their descendants.
This chapter aims to outline the methodological approach taken to empirically investigate migrant poverty. It starts by depicting the key characteristics of the target population and the sample to demonstrate its appropriateness for the exploration of migrant poverty from a multi-site and intergenerational perspective. This is followed by a presentation of the survey design and implementation, along with the methods, techniques and instruments used in sampling, data collection and analysis. The chapter ends with a detailed exposition of the dependent and independent variables and their links to the resource-based model.
This chapter aims to introduce the approach taken here to define, measure and explain migrant poverty. To this end, it first evaluates the existing definitions of poverty and monetary and multi-dimensional perspectives on poverty measurement, and then presents the definition and the measurement method adopted here. Building upon a critical evaluation of relevant theories from the wider international migration literature, it outlines the core components of the resource-based model adapted from the author’s earlier work to examine the relationships between poverty and international migration. The chapter concludes by setting out research hypotheses for statistical testing.
The social contract both creates significant social problems associated with inequalities and ties the hands of social policy as an effective means of meeting the size of the challenges accumulated in society. This final chapter of the book makes the case to change the conditions in which social policies are designed and delivered, in order to make them more effective. However, through considering contemporary social attitudes it is argued that these attitudes fluctuate within the ‘possibility space’ of the social contract and, therefore, represent a degree of homeostasis within a political economy heavily influenced by neoliberalism. The political economy requires a ‘phase shift’ to recalibrate complex systems in order to make them more tractable to social policy objectives. The chapter concludes through suggesting a range of measures of the type required to achieve a phase shift in society.
This chapter focuses on globalisation, the political economy and social policy, including how the wealthy capitalist economies have been complicit in strengthening the hand of capital. The global ‘race to the bottom’ has limited the ‘possibility space’ for social policy development through lowering corporation taxes, deregulating financial and labour markets and cutting welfare spending. Focusing on examples of climate change adaptation and the COVID-19 pandemic, the consequences of neoliberalism for social policy delivery are explored. Reduced capacity and increased fragmentation have impacted on the resilience of health and social care systems to external shocks. Neoliberalism and NPM have weakened the local state in England and, therefore, its role in shaping the social contract. In considering devolution, it is argued that greater powers and resources will enhance the responsiveness and accountability of the local state to its citizens and strengthen local democracy. Finally, Brexit is explored as a consequence of the social contract and a possible intensification of its trajectory.
Health inequalities provide a very good example of the complex relationship between the social contract, the political economy and the types and resourcing of policy responses. Despite an established evidence base about the material and structural causes of health inequalities, a narrow (medical) framing of health as the absence of disease and illness predominates across systems. In this respect, the NHS provides a form of collectivism that is valued by both the centre-left and the centre-right, given it does not unduly challenge the notion of individual rights and responsibilities within the social contract. Ultimately, the NHS is designed to deal with symptoms rather than the much more complex and deeply ingrained social inequalities causing them. The political economy is a key component in a complex systems approach to understanding health inequalities but policy development has not been calibrated accordingly, which goes a long way in explaining the persistence of these inequalities.
