Assessing the Effectiveness of Regional Policy Responses to Mass Redundancies: The Case of the Illawarra Region, Australia

Autor:	Martin O'Brien, Scott Burrows
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Flexibility (engineering) Government Public economics Transparency (graphic) Stakeholder Business Investment (macroeconomics) General Economics Econometrics and Finance Regional policy Representation (politics)
Zdroj:	Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy. 38:144-155
ISSN:	1759-3441 0812-0439
Popis:	Regional economies historically reliant on large‐scale manufacturing are particularly susceptible to episodes of mass employee redundancies. This was evident in the case of the Illawarra region in 2011 following the announcement of BlueScope Steel to close one of its two remaining blast furnaces. In common with recent closures of large manufacturers in regional Australia, the Federal Government reacted with policies to help redundant workers obtain reemployment as well as investment attraction strategies to create employment in the region. The research presented here uses a longitudinal and mixed methods approach to analyse the effectiveness of these policies. We uncovered a number of deficiencies in the implementation and evaluation of these policies and offer a number of recommendations with respect to programme flexibility, stakeholder representation and government transparency.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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