Mike Coombes
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 204941 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mike Coombes |
| NOMBRES | Mike |
| APELLIDO | Coombes |
| FIRMA | COOMBES M |
| AFILIACIONES | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0682-0539 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 387 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Assessing mobile phone data as proxy census commuting data for transport geography research
Census commuting datasets underpin much research on spatial patterns of journey-to-work but fewer Censuses now collect such data. Major post-Covid changes to working practices call for mid-2020s commuting data, making any Census 2020/1 commuting datasets less relevant. Detailed geographical research needs commuting flow matrices at a local scale, and sample surveys cannot provide Census-like granular datasets. Declining Census data availability h…
Testing Transferability
Sub‐national economic policies increasingly use labor market areas (LMAs) rather than administrative areas for analysis and implementation. How a set of LMAs was defined influences the results of such analyses, and so accurate policy delivery needs appropriately defined LMAs. Multinational bodies need comparable LMA definitions in many countries, calling for a definition method that is transferable across national boundaries. This article applies…
An evolutionary perspective on the British banking crisis
Developing an evolutionary perspective towards the changing anatomy of the banking sector reveals the enduring tensions and contradictions between spatial centralisation and the possibilities for decentralisation before, during and after the British banking crisis. The shift from banking boom to crisis in 2007 is conceptualised as a significant and on-going moment in the long-term evolution of the historical institutional–spatial dominance of Lon…
Banking on exclusion
In 2013, the UK Government announced that seven of the nation's largest banks had agreed to publish their lending data at the local level across Great Britain. The release of such area based lending data has been welcomed by advocacy groups and policy makers keen to better understand and remedy geographies of financial exclusion. This paper makes three contributions to debates about financial exclusion. First, it provides the first exploratory sp…
Industry structure, entrepreneurship, and culture
Austerity states, institutional dismantling and the governance of sub-national economic development
Austerity states, institutional dismantling and the governance of sub-national economic development: the demise of the regional development agencies in England. Territory, Politics, Governance. Contributing to interpretations of the governance geographies of austerity, the paper explains how, why and in what forms austerity states are constructed by actors in particular political-economic contexts and geographical and temporal settings, how and b…
The Migration-commuting nexus in rural England. A longitudinal analysis
Urban Escalators and Interregional Elevators
This paper uses evidence from the Longitudinal Study for England and Wales to examine the influence on occupational advancement of the city-region of residence (an escalator effect) and of relocation between city-regions (an elevator effect). It shows both effects to be substantively important, though less so than the sector of employment. Elevator effects are found to be associated with moves from slacker to tighter regional labour markets. Esca…
Universities as anchor institutions in cities in a turbulent funding environment
The paper examines universities as anchor institutions in the context of a major upheaval in the funding of English higher education. The various components of these changes are combined into a multivariate indicator of institutional vulnerability for universities in England. This is then linked to a classification of university cities to identify the most vulnerable institutions in the most vulnerable places with the greatest dependence on highe…
From City-region Concept to Boundaries for Governance
Defining city-region boundaries for governance or policy requires robust data analysis reflecting a conceptualisation of city-regions. Geddes introduced the concept to England and both fundamental and contingent features he identified remain valid. Subsequent work has not clarified issues raised by the contingent features and one of these—whether or not cities dominate the region definitions—here structures the review of city-region definition me…
How Far Do England's Second-Order Cities Emulate London as Human-Capital 'Escalators’
In the urban resurgence accompanying the growth of the knowledge economy, second‐order cities appear to be losing out to the principal city, especially where the latter is much larger and benefits from substantially greater agglomeration economies. The view that any city can make itself attractive to creative talent seems at odds with the idea of a country having just one ‘escalator region’ where the rate of career progression is much faster, esp…
An Assessment of Tenure-Specific Housing Market Areas for Housing Planning
Planning for housing in Britain has embraced the use of housing market areas (HMAs) as appropriate geographies to address calls for greater market responsiveness. Tenure is a crucial dimension of the housing market, so it must be central to assessing local housing demands. Despite the wide cleavages between social and private rented sectors, and between both of these sectors and the owner-occupying majority, the geography of tenure-specific HMAs …
Tiered Housing Markets and their Relationship to Labour Market Areas
This paper develops a tiered geography of local housing market areas (HMAs) that provides a national framework for spatial planning. It is derived from a theoretical understanding of the economic basis of HMAs. The analysis explores the relationships between the tiers of the HMA geography and local labour market areas. Drawing on this understanding, the empirical research generates sets of different potential geographies of HMAs for England based…
Family violence and risk of substance use among Mexican adolescents
Treatment programs for young people who have suffered family violence should consider adolescence not only as a stage of vulnerability for substance use but also as a critical time to implement preventive measures. For these measures, a joint strategy for both parents and adolescents should be considered, not only to stop the violence but also warn the parents about the serious consequences of the same
English Rural Housing Market Policy
Recent major policy innovations require each English region to agree the allocation of new housing between sub-regional housing market areas (HMAs). Allocations are to be based upon Housing Market Assessments that consider variation between and within HMAs, which will often embrace both urban and rural areas. Measures of the supply/demand balance within HMAs are to determine the distribution of new housing supply but these measures will be sensit…
Migration and Longer-Distance Commuting in Rural England
Champion T., Coombes M. and Brown D. L. Migration and longer-distance commuting in rural England, Regional Studies. This paper examines whether recent in-migrants to rural settlements in England commute further to work than the longer-term residents of these places, and whether commuting distance differs according to the type of move and the geographical context of their home. The study is based on data from the Individual Controlled Access Micro…
Defining regions for locality health care planning
Finding work in 2001
Early results from the 2001 census of England allow a preliminary analysis of joblessness. People in the prime working ages (25–49) are more likely to be in work than those in their 50s, but the differences are quite subtle: in particular, men without qualifications are not much more likely to be in work when they are younger, despite the suggestions that too many men cease working in their 50s. The evidence supports the view that there is a nati…
Measuring destination attractivity
The power of places to draw migrants is a topic of fundamental interest in geographical and related social studies and also in policy circles. This paper describes and demonstrates the utility of a measure of migration attractivity which is considered superior to those most widely used previously. Following a review of the importance now attached to measuring place attractiveness, the paper documents the deficiencies of the most commonly used met…
Mutuality, De‐Mutualization and Communities
The paper examines the withdrawal of branches from local communities by financial institutions. It assesses whether mutually owned building societies are more adept than the former societies that have converted to public limited companies (plcs), or the high street banks, in serving disadvantaged communities. The paper shows that during the mid‐1990s: mutual building societies were more likely than former societies that have converted to plcs to …
Defining Locality Boundaries with Synthetic Data
Boundaries can be defined by applying a number of alternative techniques to various types of information; the choices made on these decisions should reflect the purpose for which the boundaries will be used. In this paper I report research to define a set of localities intended to provide an up-to-date and relevant definition of local communities across Britain for the very varied purposes of academic social scientists. First, the multidimensiona…
The transformation of the British building society movement
Modelling the Influence of Individual and Spatial Factors Underlying Variations in the Levels of Secondary School Examination Results
There are several strands of research which have recently converged in the analysis of exam results. A long-standing line of enquiry has been to assess the impact of deprivation on educational performance. At the school level, recent work has concentrated on trying to assess the ‘added value’ of the education provided by a school, taking into account the abilities of the children on entry. The need to assess influences operating at different leve…
In search of counterurbanisation
Methodological Steps in the Development of Multivariate Indexes for Urban and Regional Policy Analysis
Urban and regional policies are increasingly targeted by area. The common feature of this drive towards the targeting of public policy is the need for improved information on the candidate areas and better methodologies to aid the prioritisation process. The pressure for more and better information is also increased by recent academic and policy debates around the importance of identifying the distinctiveness of individual regions and localities …
In search of counterurbanisation
Migration and Longer-Distance Commuting in Rural England
Champion T., Coombes M. and Brown D. L. Migration and longer-distance commuting in rural England, Regional Studies. This paper examines whether recent in-migrants to rural settlements in England commute further to work than the longer-term residents of these places, and whether commuting distance differs according to the type of move and the geographical context of their home. The study is based on data from the Individual Controlled Access Micro…
Indicators of Quality of Life
The importance of combining 'subjective' and 'objective' indicators in assessing the quality of life has been increasingly stated as a research goal. A new methodology for measuring quality of life which is an attempt to satisfy this objective is discussed. It includes a perceptually derived set of weightings and 'objectively' measured indicators of social, economic, and environmental characteristics of the largest thirty-eight cities in Britain.…
Substantive Issues in the Definition of “Localities”
COOMBES M. G., GREEN A. E. and OWEN D. W. (1988) Substantive issues in the definition of “localities”: evidence from sub-group local labour market areas in the West Midlands, Reg. Studies 22, 303–318. Local Labour Market Areas (LLMAs) are now widely accepted as the most appropriate areal units for analyses of spatial patterns of employment and unemployment. The most commonly used set of LLMAs in Britain are the Travel-To-Work Areas (TTWAs) of the…
Universities as anchor institutions in cities in a turbulent funding environment
The paper examines universities as anchor institutions in the context of a major upheaval in the funding of English higher education. The various components of these changes are combined into a multivariate indicator of institutional vulnerability for universities in England. This is then linked to a classification of university cities to identify the most vulnerable institutions in the most vulnerable places with the greatest dependence on highe…
Regulatory Change, Corporate Restructuring and the Spatial Development of the British Financial Sector
MARSHALL J. N., GENTLE C. J. S., RAYBOULD S. and COOMBES M. (1992) Regulatory change, corporate restructuring and the spatial development of the British financial sector, Reg. Studies 26, 453–467. The paper explores the dynamics of employment growth and change in the financial sector in the regions of Britain during the 1980s. Complementing other work which has focused on international and corporate finance, it focuses on personal financial marke…
Changing Places
The authors examine the impact of labor force changes and residential mobility on population size and characteristics in regions of Great Britain. 1 introduces the principal dimensions of socio-economic change which this study will be measuring describes the basis of the Functional Regions perspective and outlines the main features and applications of this approach which we will be using. The next six chapters examine in turn the most important d…
Gender-specific local labour market areas in England and Wales
Austerity states, institutional dismantling and the governance of sub-national economic development
Austerity states, institutional dismantling and the governance of sub-national economic development: the demise of the regional development agencies in England. Territory, Politics, Governance. Contributing to interpretations of the governance geographies of austerity, the paper explains how, why and in what forms austerity states are constructed by actors in particular political-economic contexts and geographical and temporal settings, how and b…
Mutuality, De‐Mutualization and Communities
The paper examines the withdrawal of branches from local communities by financial institutions. It assesses whether mutually owned building societies are more adept than the former societies that have converted to public limited companies (plcs), or the high street banks, in serving disadvantaged communities. The paper shows that during the mid‐1990s: mutual building societies were more likely than former societies that have converted to plcs to …
The use and definition of travel-to-work areas in Great Britain
(1982). The use and definition of travel-to-work areas in Great Britain: Some comments. Regional Studies: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 141-149
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Keith Shaw of the Department of Economics and Government, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, drawing on experience in the North East of England examines the value of the “urban growth coalition” model and the concept of “new urban corporatism” in explaining the power structure underlying contemporary urban regeneration strategies. In the second Article, John Tuppen of the Department of Economics, É…
Defining Locality Boundaries with Synthetic Data
Boundaries can be defined by applying a number of alternative techniques to various types of information; the choices made on these decisions should reflect the purpose for which the boundaries will be used. In this paper I report research to define a set of localities intended to provide an up-to-date and relevant definition of local communities across Britain for the very varied purposes of academic social scientists. First, the multidimensiona…
Urban Escalators and Interregional Elevators
This paper uses evidence from the Longitudinal Study for England and Wales to examine the influence on occupational advancement of the city-region of residence (an escalator effect) and of relocation between city-regions (an elevator effect). It shows both effects to be substantively important, though less so than the sector of employment. Elevator effects are found to be associated with moves from slacker to tighter regional labour markets. Esca…
How Far Do England's Second-Order Cities Emulate London as Human-Capital 'Escalators’
In the urban resurgence accompanying the growth of the knowledge economy, second‐order cities appear to be losing out to the principal city, especially where the latter is much larger and benefits from substantially greater agglomeration economies. The view that any city can make itself attractive to creative talent seems at odds with the idea of a country having just one ‘escalator region’ where the rate of career progression is much faster, esp…
Defining regions for locality health care planning
The transformation of the British building society movement
Job shortfalls’ in British local labour market areas
Owen D. W., Gillespie A. E. and Coombes M. G. (1984) ‘Job short falls’ in British local labour market areas: a classification of labour supply and demand trends, 1971–1981, Reg. Studies 18, 469–488. Using data from the Censuses of Population for 1971 and 1981, this paper applies the ‘labour market accounts’ methodology to the analysis of change in labour demand and supply over the decade in local labour market areas (LLMAs). A cluster analysis of…
Daily Urban Systems in Britain
The theoretical issues of an earlier paper by the authors concerning daily urban systems are now followed by the problems of applying this concept to British data. The complexities of the British urban system pose difficulties for any approach which prohibits overlapping areas, multinodal regions, and recognition of the differing travel patterns of social groups. No single, simple algorithm can cope consistently both with the major metropolitan r…
From City-region Concept to Boundaries for Governance
Defining city-region boundaries for governance or policy requires robust data analysis reflecting a conceptualisation of city-regions. Geddes introduced the concept to England and both fundamental and contingent features he identified remain valid. Subsequent work has not clarified issues raised by the contingent features and one of these—whether or not cities dominate the region definitions—here structures the review of city-region definition me…
The Migration-commuting nexus in rural England. A longitudinal analysis
Tiered Housing Markets and their Relationship to Labour Market Areas
This paper develops a tiered geography of local housing market areas (HMAs) that provides a national framework for spatial planning. It is derived from a theoretical understanding of the economic basis of HMAs. The analysis explores the relationships between the tiers of the HMA geography and local labour market areas. Drawing on this understanding, the empirical research generates sets of different potential geographies of HMAs for England based…
Methodological Steps in the Development of Multivariate Indexes for Urban and Regional Policy Analysis
Urban and regional policies are increasingly targeted by area. The common feature of this drive towards the targeting of public policy is the need for improved information on the candidate areas and better methodologies to aid the prioritisation process. The pressure for more and better information is also increased by recent academic and policy debates around the importance of identifying the distinctiveness of individual regions and localities …
Using the Social and Economic Data on the BBC Domesday Disc
The BBC Domesday disc contains an impressive range of socio-economic variables for small geographical areas. This paper outlines the process by which the variables for inclusion on the disc were selected, and the difficulties of obtaining data which provides a comprehensive reflection of the British economy and society. Attention is drawn to the uniquely geographical character of the data contained on the disc--and the fact that information for t…
Business Reorganisation and Regional Development
In this paper the impact of corporate restructuring in the British building societies movement is examined as an example of the changing organisation of the financial services industry, a significant component of the service sector. It is argued that regulatory changes, which have broken down the segmented and compartmentalised nature of the financial sector, have provided the opportunity for large building societies to diversify into new markets…
Towards a More Rational Consideration of Census Areal Units
The utility of data based on areal units, such as British censuses, depends at least as much on the definition of these areal units as on the variables measured. The discontinuation of the local-authority areas used for all previous censuses allows a radical evaluation of the alternative areas for census-data presentation. A conceptual basis is discussed which contrasts simple areal aggregates with genuine 'objects of interest'. It is suggested t…
Daily Urban Systems in Britain
The theoretical issues of an earlier paper by the authors concerning daily urban systems are now followed by the problems of applying this concept to British data. The complexities of the British urban system pose difficulties for any approach which prohibits overlapping areas, multinodal regions, and recognition of the differing travel patterns of social groups. No single, simple algorithm can cope consistently both with the major metropolitan r…
The use and definition of travel-to-work areas in Great Britain
(1982). The use and definition of travel-to-work areas in Great Britain: Some comments. Regional Studies: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 141-149
Job shortfalls’ in British local labour market areas
Owen D. W., Gillespie A. E. and Coombes M. G. (1984) ‘Job short falls’ in British local labour market areas: a classification of labour supply and demand trends, 1971–1981, Reg. Studies 18, 469–488. Using data from the Censuses of Population for 1971 and 1981, this paper applies the ‘labour market accounts’ methodology to the analysis of change in labour demand and supply over the decade in local labour market areas (LLMAs). A cluster analysis of…
An Efficient Algorithm to Generate Official Statistical Reporting Areas
Travel-to-work areas (T.T.W.A.s) are used by the Department of Employment for the reporting of monthly local unemployment statistics. T.T.W.A.s are also used to demarcate those parts of Britain to benefit from the public expenditure on industry under regional policy. The 1984 revision of T.T.W.A. boundaries provided academics with a rare opportunity to help rationalize official statistical areas. This involved the specification of zone-design cri…
Using the Social and Economic Data on the BBC Domesday Disc
The BBC Domesday disc contains an impressive range of socio-economic variables for small geographical areas. This paper outlines the process by which the variables for inclusion on the disc were selected, and the difficulties of obtaining data which provides a comprehensive reflection of the British economy and society. Attention is drawn to the uniquely geographical character of the data contained on the disc--and the fact that information for t…
Gender-specific local labour market areas in England and Wales
Substantive Issues in the Definition of “Localities”
COOMBES M. G., GREEN A. E. and OWEN D. W. (1988) Substantive issues in the definition of “localities”: evidence from sub-group local labour market areas in the West Midlands, Reg. Studies 22, 303–318. Local Labour Market Areas (LLMAs) are now widely accepted as the most appropriate areal units for analyses of spatial patterns of employment and unemployment. The most commonly used set of LLMAs in Britain are the Travel-To-Work Areas (TTWAs) of the…
Changing Places
The authors examine the impact of labor force changes and residential mobility on population size and characteristics in regions of Great Britain. 1 introduces the principal dimensions of socio-economic change which this study will be measuring describes the basis of the Functional Regions perspective and outlines the main features and applications of this approach which we will be using. The next six chapters examine in turn the most important d…
Counterurbanization in Europe
Indicators of Quality of Life
The importance of combining 'subjective' and 'objective' indicators in assessing the quality of life has been increasingly stated as a research goal. A new methodology for measuring quality of life which is an attempt to satisfy this objective is discussed. It includes a perceptually derived set of weightings and 'objectively' measured indicators of social, economic, and environmental characteristics of the largest thirty-eight cities in Britain.…
Business Reorganisation and Regional Development
In this paper the impact of corporate restructuring in the British building societies movement is examined as an example of the changing organisation of the financial services industry, a significant component of the service sector. It is argued that regulatory changes, which have broken down the segmented and compartmentalised nature of the financial sector, have provided the opportunity for large building societies to diversify into new markets…
Regulatory Change, Corporate Restructuring and the Spatial Development of the British Financial Sector
MARSHALL J. N., GENTLE C. J. S., RAYBOULD S. and COOMBES M. (1992) Regulatory change, corporate restructuring and the spatial development of the British financial sector, Reg. Studies 26, 453–467. The paper explores the dynamics of employment growth and change in the financial sector in the regions of Britain during the 1980s. Complementing other work which has focused on international and corporate finance, it focuses on personal financial marke…
Monitoring equal employment opportunity at the workplace
The fact that the 1991 Census of Population included a race and ethnic question followed evidence from the 1989 test Census that this was not likely to arouse strong public opposition - while the case for race and ethnic data in the Census was overwhelming. This article focuses on the necessity of the data for the proper implementation of the Race Relations Act 1976, especially in relation to employment. It demonstrates how the linking of race an…
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Keith Shaw of the Department of Economics and Government, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, drawing on experience in the North East of England examines the value of the “urban growth coalition” model and the concept of “new urban corporatism” in explaining the power structure underlying contemporary urban regeneration strategies. In the second Article, John Tuppen of the Department of Economics, É…
Methodological Steps in the Development of Multivariate Indexes for Urban and Regional Policy Analysis
Urban and regional policies are increasingly targeted by area. The common feature of this drive towards the targeting of public policy is the need for improved information on the candidate areas and better methodologies to aid the prioritisation process. The pressure for more and better information is also increased by recent academic and policy debates around the importance of identifying the distinctiveness of individual regions and localities …
In search of counterurbanisation
The transformation of the British building society movement
Modelling the Influence of Individual and Spatial Factors Underlying Variations in the Levels of Secondary School Examination Results
There are several strands of research which have recently converged in the analysis of exam results. A long-standing line of enquiry has been to assess the impact of deprivation on educational performance. At the school level, recent work has concentrated on trying to assess the ‘added value’ of the education provided by a school, taking into account the abilities of the children on entry. The need to assess influences operating at different leve…
Measuring destination attractivity
The power of places to draw migrants is a topic of fundamental interest in geographical and related social studies and also in policy circles. This paper describes and demonstrates the utility of a measure of migration attractivity which is considered superior to those most widely used previously. Following a review of the importance now attached to measuring place attractiveness, the paper documents the deficiencies of the most commonly used met…
Mutuality, De‐Mutualization and Communities
The paper examines the withdrawal of branches from local communities by financial institutions. It assesses whether mutually owned building societies are more adept than the former societies that have converted to public limited companies (plcs), or the high street banks, in serving disadvantaged communities. The paper shows that during the mid‐1990s: mutual building societies were more likely than former societies that have converted to plcs to …
Defining Locality Boundaries with Synthetic Data
Boundaries can be defined by applying a number of alternative techniques to various types of information; the choices made on these decisions should reflect the purpose for which the boundaries will be used. In this paper I report research to define a set of localities intended to provide an up-to-date and relevant definition of local communities across Britain for the very varied purposes of academic social scientists. First, the multidimensiona…
Finding work in 2001
Early results from the 2001 census of England allow a preliminary analysis of joblessness. People in the prime working ages (25–49) are more likely to be in work than those in their 50s, but the differences are quite subtle: in particular, men without qualifications are not much more likely to be in work when they are younger, despite the suggestions that too many men cease working in their 50s. The evidence supports the view that there is a nati…
Defining regions for locality health care planning
Migration and Longer-Distance Commuting in Rural England
Champion T., Coombes M. and Brown D. L. Migration and longer-distance commuting in rural England, Regional Studies. This paper examines whether recent in-migrants to rural settlements in England commute further to work than the longer-term residents of these places, and whether commuting distance differs according to the type of move and the geographical context of their home. The study is based on data from the Individual Controlled Access Micro…
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