Ian Shuttleworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 226407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Shuttleworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Shuttleworth |
| SIGNATURE | SHUTTLEWORTH I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0279-9103 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 310 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Personality and the “Social Cure”: The Role of Ego-Resilience in the Social Identity Approach to Health
This work integrates personality theory with the Social Identity Approach to Health (SIAH), examining the interplay between personality, local community group identification, perceived support, and well-being. Three studies investigated: (a) latent personality profiles based on the five-factor model ( N = 49,692); (b) the relationships between local community identification, perceived support, and well-being across personality profiles ( N = 1,25…
Reassessing general explanations for long-run change in internal migration: Insights from Norway
Internal migration fell in high-income countries such as Australia, the UK, and the United States during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. High-level explanations for these declines have referred to developmental stage (Zelinsky's super-advanced society), changed values and preferences (secular rootedness), and long-run socio-demographic change (second demographic transition). We assess the relevance of these overlapping interp…
Does frequent internet use increase the propensity to change address? UK evidence from Understanding Society on mobility preferences, expectations and moves
Long‐term declines in rates of internal migration have been widely documented in many developed economies. Accompanying this decline has been a proliferation in the everyday use of new technologies such as the internet. New communication technologies have been theorised to influence migration decisions, but the direction of this influence is ambiguous, with some studies finding that they decrease migration, others that they increase it. Using dat…
Not going out during the Covid‐19 pandemic? A multilevel geographical analysis of UK Google Mobility Reports, February 2020–December 2021
The analysis reported in this paper uses Google Mobility Reports to understand subnational trends in population spatial immobility/mobility in the United Kingdom during 2020 and 2021. Using multilevel modelling, it analyses how spatial mobility changed through time in response to the strictness of government lockdown and the annual seasonal cycle of public holidays, and between places in terms of their population composition as measured by the sh…
Migration and partisan identification as British Unionists or Irish Nationalists in Northern Ireland
The notion that mobility weakens collective norms and increases tolerance has a long pedigree in sociology. In this article, we examine the association of migration with partisan identification as British Unionists or Irish Nationalists in Northern Ireland, a region where the overlap of opposing religious and national identities is reflected in the residential segregation of its population. In representative samples of the population, we find tha…
Individual residential mobility, immobility, and political attitudes: The case of Brexit voting intentions in the 2016 UK EU Referendum
One explanation of the results of the UK EU Referendum and the US Presidential Election in 2016 has been as a triumph of citizens of ‘somewhere’—localised and rooted—over the cosmopolitan and spatially mobile citizens of ‘anywhere’, placing residential mobility and its effects on political attitudes at the heart of debates about the causes of populist voting. This paper contributes to these debates by using Understanding Society 1 to examine how …
Declining internal migration? Patterns, causes and prospects
No data are used; this is a review article
The evolution of Catholic/Protestant unemployment inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983–2016
Ethnic and religious differentials in labour market outcomes within many countries have been remarkably persistent. Yet one very well‐known differential—the Catholic/Protestant unemployment differential in Northern Ireland—has largely (although not completely) disappeared. This paper charts its decline since the early 1980s and examines potential explanations using Census data from 1991, 2001 and 2011 together with annual survey data. These data …
At the intersection of urbanisation and counterurbanisation in rural space: Microurbanisation in Northern Iceland
Is internal migration declining in Iceland? Intensities, geographical patterns and population composition 1986–2017
The Nordic countries have higher rates of internal migration than most other Western societies and have not always shared in the declines noted in other countries. This paper examines migration in Iceland during the period 1986–2017 to add to the wider international literature on migration trends. Compared with its Nordic neighbours, Iceland has the highest rates of internal migration and currently also the greatest porosity in terms of internati…
Internal migration in Northern Ireland: Are people becoming more stuck in place
The analysis uses the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study to explore migration trends from 2001 to 2015. Its contributions are to extend this analysis to the period after the 2011 Census, to use administrative data to measure migration not as a transition between places but as (potentially) multiple events over the full 2001–2015 period over different distance bands, to add to the UK evidence base on internal migration trends, and to show how lon…
Residential mobility in divided societies: How individual religion and geographical context influenced housing moves in Northern Ireland 2001–2011
Residential segregation is pervasive in many societies. People making residential moves in these divided contexts may increase or decrease segregation levels. In this paper, the divided society of Northern Ireland is used as an example to explore how residential mobility relates to residential segregation by religion. Survey evidence for this country consistently shows a preference for mixed neighbourhoods, yet actual patterns of geographical mob…
Geography, psychology and the ‘Big Five’ personality traits: Who moves, and over what distances, in the United Kingdom
Personality, as measured by the ‘Big Five’ dimensions of agreeableness, openness, extroversion, neuroticism and conscientiousness, has been explored in the social psychological literature as a predictor of migration but so far has received very little attention in the geographical literature, which is surprising given its predictive importance and also evidence that the selectivity of migration shapes area personality profiles. Using the Understa…
Spatial mobility and tolerance towards immigrants: The case of Northern Iceland
While the profound effects of spatial mobility on social structures and patterns of interactions have long been recognized, the association of mobility experiences and tolerance towards immigrants has received limited attention. In this paper, we examine such patterns in Iceland, a country with a long history of emigration and return migration of the local population but a recent surge in international immigration. We find in-migrants and locals …
Re‐identifying residential mixing: Emergent identity dynamics between incomers and existing residents in a mixed neighbourhood in Northern Ireland
Research on residential diversification has neglected its impact on neighbourhood identity and overlooked the very different identity‐related experiences of new and existing residents. The present research examines how incoming and established group members relate to their changing neighbourhood in the increasingly desegregated city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Thematic analysis of interviews with 24 residents (12 Protestant long‐term residents,…
Neighborhood Identity Helps Residents Cope with Residential Diversification: Contact in Increasingly Mixed Neighborhoods of Northern Ireland
Research on residential diversification has mainly focused on its negative impacts upon community cohesion and positive effects on intergroup relations. However, these analyses ignore how neighborhood identity can shape the consequences of diversification among residents. Elsewhere, research using the Applied Social Identity Approach (ASIA) has demonstrated the potential for neighborhood identity to provide social and psychological resources to c…
Why did fewer people change address in England and Wales in the 2000s than in the 1970s? Evidence from an analysis of the ONS Longitudinal Study
The paper explores why internal migration rates fell in England and Wales between 1971 to 1981 and 2001 to 2011. It considers all‐address changing rates, short‐distance migration (address changes involving moves of 10 km or less) and long‐distance migration (moves of 50 km or more). It does so by using the Blinder–Oaxaca method to decompose the differences between the 2 time periods into a compositional component (changes in the aggregate migrati…
Spatial and temporal patterns of economic segregation in Sweden's metropolitan areas: A mobility approach
The statistical resources at hand for segregation research are usually almost exclusively confined to annual or decennial records where the only available spatial information is the individual's place of residence. This coarse temporal periodicity and spatial resolution provides a very limited account of people's diurnal lives. Incorporating mobility and temporal dimensions in segregation analysis is advocated within a growing body of research bu…
Religious Identification, Switching, and Apostasy Among Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland: Individual and Cohort Dynamics Between Two Censuses 2001-2011
Religious identification has historically been salient in Northern Ireland as an ethnic-national identity marker. Thirteen years after the Good Friday Agreement that marked the start of the peace process in the country, the question arises whether religious affiliation in Northern Ireland has become less of an ethnonational identity marker and more of a personal choice. This article analyzes religious switching and apostasy between 2001 and 2011,…
Are People Changing Address Less? An Analysis of Migration within England and Wales, 1971-2011, by Distance of Move: Are People Changing Address Less
Expectations of migration and mobility steadily increasing in the longer term, which have a long currency in migration theory and related social science, are at odds with the latest US research showing a marked decline in internal migration rates. This paper reports the results of research that investigates whether England and Wales have experienced any similar change in recent decades. Using the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study …
Internal Migration in the Developed World: Are We Becoming Less Mobile
Migration and the Internet
It is widely presumed that information and communication technologies, or ICTs, enable migration in several ways; primarily by reducing the costs of migration. However, a reconsideration of the relationship between ICTs and migration suggests that ICTs may just as well hinder migration; primarily by reducing the costs of not moving. Using data from the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics, models that control for sources of observed and unobserved h…
The effects of information and communication technologies on residential mobility and migration
A common presumption is that the widespread adoption of advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs) over the last several decades enhances residential mobility and migration. This research critically evaluates this presumption from the perspective of the long‐term decline in residential mobility and migration in many developed countries and concludes that ICTs are capable of both enhancing and impeding residential mobility and migr…
Is Longer-Distance Migration Slowing? An Analysis of the Annual Record for England and Wales since the 1970s: Is Longer-Distance Migration Slowing
This paper is prompted by the widespread acceptance that the rates of inter-county and inter-state migration have been falling in the USA and sets itself the task of examining whether this decline in migration intensities is also the case in the UK. It uses annual inter-area migration matrices available for England and Wales since the 1970s by broad age group. The main methodological challenge, arising from changes in the geography of health area…
People and places: Understanding geographical accuracy in administrative data from the census and healthcare systems
Administrative systems such as health care registration are of increasing importance in providing information for statistical, research, and policy purposes. There is thus a pressing need to understand better the detailed relationship between population characteristics as recorded in such systems and conventional censuses. This paper explores these issues using the unique Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (NILS). It takes the 2001 Census enumer…
Sectarian demography, territoriality and political development in Northern Ireland
Is Longer-Distance Migration Slowing? An Analysis of the Annual Record for England and Wales since the 1970s: Is Longer-Distance Migration Slowing
This paper is prompted by the widespread acceptance that the rates of inter-county and inter-state migration have been falling in the USA and sets itself the task of examining whether this decline in migration intensities is also the case in the UK. It uses annual inter-area migration matrices available for England and Wales since the 1970s by broad age group. The main methodological challenge, arising from changes in the geography of health area…
The effects of information and communication technologies on residential mobility and migration
A common presumption is that the widespread adoption of advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs) over the last several decades enhances residential mobility and migration. This research critically evaluates this presumption from the perspective of the long‐term decline in residential mobility and migration in many developed countries and concludes that ICTs are capable of both enhancing and impeding residential mobility and migr…
Spatial and temporal patterns of economic segregation in Sweden's metropolitan areas: A mobility approach
The statistical resources at hand for segregation research are usually almost exclusively confined to annual or decennial records where the only available spatial information is the individual's place of residence. This coarse temporal periodicity and spatial resolution provides a very limited account of people's diurnal lives. Incorporating mobility and temporal dimensions in segregation analysis is advocated within a growing body of research bu…
Are Northern Ireland's Communities Dividing? Evidence from Geographically Consistent Census of Population Data, 1971-2001
There is an extensive literature on various aspects of segregation in Northern Ireland (NI). However, there are no census-based analyses of population change and residential segregation that cover the entire 1971-2001 period using consistent geographical units through time for all NI. This shortcoming is addressed in this paper by an analysis of changes in (i) the spatial distribution of population and (ii) residential segregation between 1971 an…
The Emigration and Employment of Irish Graduates: The Export of High-Quality Labour From the Periphery of Europe
During the late 1980s, emigration of university graduates from the Republic of Ireland rose to unprecedented levels. More than one-quarter of the graduates were living abroad nine months after graduation, according to statistics issued by the Higher Education Authority. After reviewing the changing socio-economic background to Irish emigration since the early 1950s, the second, and major, part of the article will present the findings of a large-s…
Sectarian Readings of Sectarianism: Interpreting the Northern Ireland Census
Sectarian 'headcounting' is a built-in feature of Northern Ireland poli? tics. It was central to the delimitation of Northern Ireland as six of Ulster's nine counties. This was intended to give a 'safe7 two to one majority of Protestants and unionists over Catholics and nationalists; and achieving it had meant the ditching of fellow unionists in Don? egal, Cavan and Monaghan who had been an integral part of Ulster opposition to Irish 'Home Rule'.…
Geography, psychology and the ‘Big Five’ personality traits: Who moves, and over what distances, in the United Kingdom
Personality, as measured by the ‘Big Five’ dimensions of agreeableness, openness, extroversion, neuroticism and conscientiousness, has been explored in the social psychological literature as a predictor of migration but so far has received very little attention in the geographical literature, which is surprising given its predictive importance and also evidence that the selectivity of migration shapes area personality profiles. Using the Understa…
At the intersection of urbanisation and counterurbanisation in rural space: Microurbanisation in Northern Iceland
Analysing Commuting Using Local Regression Techniques: Scale, Sensitivity, and Geographical Patterning
In this paper, two forms of local regression are employed in the analysis of relations between out-commuting distance and other socioeconomic variables in Northern Ireland. The two regression approaches used are moving window regression (MWR) and geographically weighted regression (GWR). For the first approach different window sizes are applied and changes in results assessed. For the second approach, a Gaussian kernel is used and its bandwidth v…
Spatial mobility and tolerance towards immigrants: The case of Northern Iceland
While the profound effects of spatial mobility on social structures and patterns of interactions have long been recognized, the association of mobility experiences and tolerance towards immigrants has received limited attention. In this paper, we examine such patterns in Iceland, a country with a long history of emigration and return migration of the local population but a recent surge in international immigration. We find in-migrants and locals …
Why did fewer people change address in England and Wales in the 2000s than in the 1970s? Evidence from an analysis of the ONS Longitudinal Study
The paper explores why internal migration rates fell in England and Wales between 1971 to 1981 and 2001 to 2011. It considers all‐address changing rates, short‐distance migration (address changes involving moves of 10 km or less) and long‐distance migration (moves of 50 km or more). It does so by using the Blinder–Oaxaca method to decompose the differences between the 2 time periods into a compositional component (changes in the aggregate migrati…
Young People, Job Search and Local Labour Markets: The Example of Belfast
In debates about employability, the role of area perceptions in shaping the labour market behaviour of individuals has been neglected. This paper sets out to gain an understanding of what relatively disadvantaged young people in Belfast know about the geography of labour market opportunities in the city and the locations where they are prepared to work. Using secondary data analysis and primary research methods, it is shown that most young people…
Analysing average travel‐to‐work distances in Northern Ireland using the 1991 census of population: The effects of locality, social composition, and religion
Shuttleworth I. G. and Lloyd C. D. (2005) Analysing average travel‐to‐work distances in Northern Ireland using the 1991 Census of Population: the effects of locality, social composition, and religion, Regional Studies 39 , 909–921. Travel‐to‐work patterns have important implications for national and international debates about employability and the causes of unemployment. Therefore, using Northern Ireland as an example, this paper explores the fa…
Neighborhood Identity Helps Residents Cope with Residential Diversification: Contact in Increasingly Mixed Neighborhoods of Northern Ireland
Research on residential diversification has mainly focused on its negative impacts upon community cohesion and positive effects on intergroup relations. However, these analyses ignore how neighborhood identity can shape the consequences of diversification among residents. Elsewhere, research using the Applied Social Identity Approach (ASIA) has demonstrated the potential for neighborhood identity to provide social and psychological resources to c…
Does Internal Migration in Northern Ireland Increase Religious and Social Segregation? Perspectives from the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (Nils) 2001–2007
Internal migration, because of its selectivity, has been recognised in Britain, Europe, and the USA as a major influence on geographical patterns of ethnic and social segregation. Despite this, and despite its history of communal division, plus accounts which have emphasised population moves as a cause of segregation, far less academic attention has been paid to dynamic migration processes in understanding the evolution of spatial population patt…
Who is going to Toss the Burgers'? Social Class and the Reconstruction of the Northern Irish Economy
As highlighted by Finlayson, in this special issue on (Northern) Ireland, the dominant agenda in terms of political identity is still defined by rival and atavistic nationalisms. In many ways what can be concluded is that the 'Peace Process' cannot, at least in the short to medium term, resolve the nature and grip of sectarianism over (Northern) Irish society. What in effect remains is a process of managing disunity and the opposing nationalisms …
Reporting address changes by migrants: The accuracy and timeliness of reports via health card registers
On the Margins: Disabled people's experience of employment in Donegal, West Ireland
Traditionally, studies of disabled people’s access to the labour market have \nbeen largely restricted to labour market 'censuses' , often conducted by government agencies, \nand econometric studies. This paper explores disabled people’s access to and experiences of \nemployment in Donegal, West Ireland, using a qualitative approach. Twelve disabled \npeople and four non-disabled helpers, divided into two focus groups, were interviewed using \nan…
Re‐identifying residential mixing: Emergent identity dynamics between incomers and existing residents in a mixed neighbourhood in Northern Ireland
Research on residential diversification has neglected its impact on neighbourhood identity and overlooked the very different identity‐related experiences of new and existing residents. The present research examines how incoming and established group members relate to their changing neighbourhood in the increasingly desegregated city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Thematic analysis of interviews with 24 residents (12 Protestant long‐term residents,…
Redundancy, Readjustment, and Employability: What Can We Learn from the 2000 Harland & Wolff Redundancy
Large-scale redundancies have been a common feature of the UK industrial landscape in recent years and a changing labour market and institutional context supports the need for ongoing research into this important area. In this paper the authors examine the postredundancy experience of workers who were made redundant from Harland & Wolff in Belfast in 2000 to identify the factors that affected the employability of those workers and to consider som…
Religious Identification, Switching, and Apostasy Among Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland: Individual and Cohort Dynamics Between Two Censuses 2001-2011
Religious identification has historically been salient in Northern Ireland as an ethnic-national identity marker. Thirteen years after the Good Friday Agreement that marked the start of the peace process in the country, the question arises whether religious affiliation in Northern Ireland has become less of an ethnonational identity marker and more of a personal choice. This article analyzes religious switching and apostasy between 2001 and 2011,…
Residential Segregation in Northern Ireland in 2001: Assessing the Value of Exploring Spatial Variations
Segregation measures have been applied in the study of many societies, and traditionally such measures have been used to assess the degree of division between social and cultural groups across urban areas, wider regions, or perhaps national areas. The degree of segregation can vary substantially from place to place even within very small areas. In this paper the substantive concern is with religious/political segregation in Northern Ireland—parti…
Distance between Home and Work: A Multilevel Analysis of Individual Workers, Neighbourhoods, and Employment Sites in Northern Ireland
We explore the distances between home and work for employees at twenty-eight different employment sites across Northern Ireland. Substantively, this is important for better understanding the geography of labour catchments. Methodologically, with data on the distances between place of residence (566 wards) and place of work for some 15 000 workers, and the use of multilevel modelling (MLM), the analysis adds to the evidence derived from other cens…
Is internal migration declining in Iceland? Intensities, geographical patterns and population composition 1986–2017
The Nordic countries have higher rates of internal migration than most other Western societies and have not always shared in the declines noted in other countries. This paper examines migration in Iceland during the period 1986–2017 to add to the wider international literature on migration trends. Compared with its Nordic neighbours, Iceland has the highest rates of internal migration and currently also the greatest porosity in terms of internati…
Sectarian Readings of Sectarianism: Interpreting the Northern Ireland Census
Sectarian 'headcounting' is a built-in feature of Northern Ireland poli? tics. It was central to the delimitation of Northern Ireland as six of Ulster's nine counties. This was intended to give a 'safe7 two to one majority of Protestants and unionists over Catholics and nationalists; and achieving it had meant the ditching of fellow unionists in Don? egal, Cavan and Monaghan who had been an integral part of Ulster opposition to Irish 'Home Rule'.…
The Emigration and Employment of Irish Graduates: The Export of High-Quality Labour From the Periphery of Europe
During the late 1980s, emigration of university graduates from the Republic of Ireland rose to unprecedented levels. More than one-quarter of the graduates were living abroad nine months after graduation, according to statistics issued by the Higher Education Authority. After reviewing the changing socio-economic background to Irish emigration since the early 1950s, the second, and major, part of the article will present the findings of a large-s…
Inequalities in the uptake of science at GCSE: Evidence from Northern Ireland
The paper analyses the impact of individual/family background and school characteristics on science uptake at GCSE in Northern Ireland using survey data by means of a series of multilevel logistic models. Selecting two outcome variables ('science' in its widest sense and a more restricted definition of 'hard' science), it shows that attendance at grammar school and parental labour‐market status are significant determinants of science uptake, and …
Intercensal population change in the Belfast urban area 1971-91: The Correlates of Population Increase and Decrease in a Divided Society
This paper analyses population change in the Belfast Urban Area (BUA) [of Northern Ireland] between 1971 and 1991 in its socio-economic context to understand the nature of urban social change. Although considering religious factors as a cause of population change, the research compares the BUA with other urban areas and relates developments in Belfast to some literature on sociospatial polarisation and the ¿underclass'.... The results suggest tha…
On the Margins: Disabled people's experience of employment in Donegal, West Ireland
Traditionally, studies of disabled people’s access to the labour market have \nbeen largely restricted to labour market 'censuses' , often conducted by government agencies, \nand econometric studies. This paper explores disabled people’s access to and experiences of \nemployment in Donegal, West Ireland, using a qualitative approach. Twelve disabled \npeople and four non-disabled helpers, divided into two focus groups, were interviewed using \nan…
Sectarian demography, territoriality and political development in Northern Ireland
Who is going to Toss the Burgers'? Social Class and the Reconstruction of the Northern Irish Economy
As highlighted by Finlayson, in this special issue on (Northern) Ireland, the dominant agenda in terms of political identity is still defined by rival and atavistic nationalisms. In many ways what can be concluded is that the 'Peace Process' cannot, at least in the short to medium term, resolve the nature and grip of sectarianism over (Northern) Irish society. What in effect remains is a process of managing disunity and the opposing nationalisms …
Young People, Job Search and Local Labour Markets: The Example of Belfast
In debates about employability, the role of area perceptions in shaping the labour market behaviour of individuals has been neglected. This paper sets out to gain an understanding of what relatively disadvantaged young people in Belfast know about the geography of labour market opportunities in the city and the locations where they are prepared to work. Using secondary data analysis and primary research methods, it is shown that most young people…
Analysing average travel‐to‐work distances in Northern Ireland using the 1991 census of population: The effects of locality, social composition, and religion
Shuttleworth I. G. and Lloyd C. D. (2005) Analysing average travel‐to‐work distances in Northern Ireland using the 1991 Census of Population: the effects of locality, social composition, and religion, Regional Studies 39 , 909–921. Travel‐to‐work patterns have important implications for national and international debates about employability and the causes of unemployment. Therefore, using Northern Ireland as an example, this paper explores the fa…
Analysing Commuting Using Local Regression Techniques: Scale, Sensitivity, and Geographical Patterning
In this paper, two forms of local regression are employed in the analysis of relations between out-commuting distance and other socioeconomic variables in Northern Ireland. The two regression approaches used are moving window regression (MWR) and geographically weighted regression (GWR). For the first approach different window sizes are applied and changes in results assessed. For the second approach, a Gaussian kernel is used and its bandwidth v…
Redundancy, Readjustment, and Employability: What Can We Learn from the 2000 Harland & Wolff Redundancy
Large-scale redundancies have been a common feature of the UK industrial landscape in recent years and a changing labour market and institutional context supports the need for ongoing research into this important area. In this paper the authors examine the postredundancy experience of workers who were made redundant from Harland & Wolff in Belfast in 2000 to identify the factors that affected the employability of those workers and to consider som…
Reconceptualising local labour markets in the context of cross-border and transnational labour flows: The Irish example
Labour Immigration and Northern Ireland
There is controversy about the numerical size of recent transnational population flows since they include a large (but unknown) proportion of undocumented workers who by definition fall outside the ambit of administrative systems. However, something significant is clearly afoot in many advanced countries; it has been argued, for example, that the USA saw more immigration in the 1990s than in the classic 'years of immigration' in the early 20 t h …
Spatial Mobility, Workers and Jobs: Perspectives from the Northern Ireland Experience
Shuttleworth I. and Green A. E. Spatial mobility, workers and jobs: perspectives from the Northern Ireland experience, Regional Studies. How best to address local concentrations of worklessness is a key question for labour market, economic development and social inclusion policy. Historically, initiatives in Northern Ireland have focused on moving ‘jobs to workers’, but in changed political circumstances there is now greater emphasis on encouragi…
Are Northern Ireland's Communities Dividing? Evidence from Geographically Consistent Census of Population Data, 1971-2001
There is an extensive literature on various aspects of segregation in Northern Ireland (NI). However, there are no census-based analyses of population change and residential segregation that cover the entire 1971-2001 period using consistent geographical units through time for all NI. This shortcoming is addressed in this paper by an analysis of changes in (i) the spatial distribution of population and (ii) residential segregation between 1971 an…
Local differences, perceptions and Incapacity Benefit claimants: Implications for policy delivery
Geographical unevenness in labour market and social conditions is one reason why the ‘local’ has been emphasised increasingly in the delivery of labour market policy in the UK. This article explores the extent to which there are local differences in labour market conditions using the characteristics and experiences of Incapacity Benefit (IB) claimants in Northern Ireland as an example. It then offers some comments on the potential for policy init…
Distance between Home and Work: A Multilevel Analysis of Individual Workers, Neighbourhoods, and Employment Sites in Northern Ireland
We explore the distances between home and work for employees at twenty-eight different employment sites across Northern Ireland. Substantively, this is important for better understanding the geography of labour catchments. Methodologically, with data on the distances between place of residence (566 wards) and place of work for some 15 000 workers, and the use of multilevel modelling (MLM), the analysis adds to the evidence derived from other cens…
Spatial Mobility Intentions, the Labour Market and Incapacity Benefit Claimants: Evidence from Northern Ireland
The paper analyses the work-related spatial mobility intentions of incapacity benefit (IB) claimants in Northern Ireland using a new survey dataset. Greater understanding of the prospective mobility of benefit claimants contributes to debates about employability, inclusion in the labour market and arguments about spatial mismatch. The analysis finds that IB claimants are not markedly less mobile than other population groups; that mobility is shap…
Evaluation of Gridded Population Models Using 2001 Northern Ireland Census Data
There is growing interest in the use of gridded population models which potentially offer advantages of stability through time and ease of integration with nonpopulation data sources. This paper assesses the accuracy of models of the type introduced by Martin in 1989. Population counts for census output areas (OAs) are reallocated to a 100 m grid and then compared with true 100 m cell population counts uniquely available from the 2001 Northern Ir…
Does Internal Migration in Northern Ireland Increase Religious and Social Segregation? Perspectives from the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (Nils) 2001–2007
Internal migration, because of its selectivity, has been recognised in Britain, Europe, and the USA as a major influence on geographical patterns of ethnic and social segregation. Despite this, and despite its history of communal division, plus accounts which have emphasised population moves as a cause of segregation, far less academic attention has been paid to dynamic migration processes in understanding the evolution of spatial population patt…
Reporting address changes by migrants: The accuracy and timeliness of reports via health card registers
Residential Segregation in Northern Ireland in 2001: Assessing the Value of Exploring Spatial Variations
Segregation measures have been applied in the study of many societies, and traditionally such measures have been used to assess the degree of division between social and cultural groups across urban areas, wider regions, or perhaps national areas. The degree of segregation can vary substantially from place to place even within very small areas. In this paper the substantive concern is with religious/political segregation in Northern Ireland—parti…
Spatial and Social Disparities: Understanding Population Trends and Processes-Volume 2
"Spatial and Social Disparities: Understanding Population Trends and Processes—Volume 2." Population Studies, 67(3), pp. 379–380
Is Longer-Distance Migration Slowing? An Analysis of the Annual Record for England and Wales since the 1970s: Is Longer-Distance Migration Slowing
This paper is prompted by the widespread acceptance that the rates of inter-county and inter-state migration have been falling in the USA and sets itself the task of examining whether this decline in migration intensities is also the case in the UK. It uses annual inter-area migration matrices available for England and Wales since the 1970s by broad age group. The main methodological challenge, arising from changes in the geography of health area…
People and places: Understanding geographical accuracy in administrative data from the census and healthcare systems
Administrative systems such as health care registration are of increasing importance in providing information for statistical, research, and policy purposes. There is thus a pressing need to understand better the detailed relationship between population characteristics as recorded in such systems and conventional censuses. This paper explores these issues using the unique Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (NILS). It takes the 2001 Census enumer…
Sociology (36 works) · Geography (33 works) · Economics (29 works) · Population (26 works) · Demography (25 works) · Political science (24 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (23 works) · Demographic economics (19 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (19 works) · Demography (18 works)