Nigel Spence
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nigel Spence |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nigel |
| FAMILY NAME | Spence |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7006-0522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 143 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Screening for coercive control with refugee women accessing settlement services
Despite challenges due to differences in language, interpretation and cultural norms, this study found it feasible to enquire about controlling behaviour with refugee women accessing settlement services, along with other forms of IPV
Identifying and Responding to Intimate Partner Violence in Australian Refugee Settlement Services
International development organisations and the localisation of human rights
International development organisations face a challenge to reconcile their commitments to universal human rights agendas with the growing expectation to localise and decolonise their approaches in order to shift power to local actors. This article draws on research into children’s rights implementation in Vietnam, specifically the introduction of the national child protection system, to highlight the challenges for international organisations in…
Family sustainability and child protection in Vietnam
The Spatial Footprint of the Knowledge Economy: The Role of Intangible Investment in Shaping Regional Inequalities in Great Britain
Since the advent of the knowledge economy it has become evident that the territorial footprint of investment in intangible assets is largely asymmetrical. First, these types of assets tend to be distributed unevenly across space. Second, intangible assets are an important source of productivity growth and competitiveness. Although significant advances have been made in measuring intangible assets and accounting for their effects in economic outco…
The Impact of Intangible Assets on Regional Productivity Disparities in Great Britain
During the past few years there has been a growing consensus in the literature that intangible assets represent a major source of productivity growth. Intangibles facilitate the accumulation of knowledge and information via learning and innovation, allowing, in this way, modern economies to improve the efficiency with which they utilise their resources. Nonetheless, despite the proliferation of studies that investigate the territorial impact of i…
Intangible Investment and Regional Productivity in Great Britain
Melachroinos K. A. and Spence N. Intangible investment and regional productivity in Great Britain, Regional Studies. Investment in intangible assets is considered to be an important driver of territorial competitiveness and wealth creation. Nevertheless, conventional growth accounting analyses treat most intangibles as intermediate expenditure and thus fail to capture the full effect of intangibles on output expansion and productivity dynamics. T…
Energy Consumption and Work-Travel Trips: London, Birmingham, and Manchester, 1981–2001
The changing modal composition and volume of work travel in London, Birmingham, and Manchester and their resultant energy consumption implications are considered in this research. Essentially, the mechanism is to calculate the passenger km travelled by mode and then to apply mode-specific energy consumption parameters to calculate energy consumption. By classifying work-travel trips according to their travel mode and their location and orientatio…
Improving the working environment for workers in children’s welfare agencies
The working environment and workplace ecology of children’s welfare agencies is important to the quality of their service provision. In the past, restructuring and professional development and training have been standard responses to changing needs and demands on children’s services but have generally failed to improve the working environment. This research argues that concrete strategies can be developed from a detailed understanding of signific…
Improving the working environment for workers in children's welfare agencies
Conceptualizing sunk costs in economic geography: Cost recovery and the fluctuating value of fixed capital
Several studies in economic geography have attempted to understand the spatial implications of sunk costs. In this paper it is argued that, although these efforts are most valuable, issues remain that deserve closer examination. The first begs the question whether the introduction of this concept into economic geography has occurred with due regard to the contexts set by the academic fields where the notion originates. If this is not the case, th…
Manufacturing Productivity Growth across European Union States: 1978 – 94
This paper explores the sources of rising manufacturing output and labour productivity across thirteen European Union states between 1978 and 1994. Despite the severe deindustrialisation trends of the past two decades, manufacturing output continued to expand and thus contribute to overall economic growth. The analysis here reveals several key aspects of this process. First, the geographical distribution of the sector across Europe for the entire…
Spatial Variations in New Manufacturing Plant Openings: Some Empirical Evidence from Greece
FOTOPOULOS G. and SPENCE N. (1999) Spatial variations in new manufacturing plant openings: some empirical evidence from Greece, Reg. Studies 33 , 219-229. This research deals with the determinants of regional variation in new plant openings in Greek manufacturing industries over the period 1980-91. Key findings of this first detailed attempt to do so in a Greek context relate to the significant direct effects of regional specialization, the exten…
Regional Economic Performance and Sunk Costs
MELACHROINOS K. A. and SPENCE N. (1999) Regional economic performance and sunk costs, Reg. Studies 33 , 843-855. In industrial organization economics sunk costs, defined as unretrievable costs in the case of market exit, are assumed to determine market structure, firm entry and exit, enterprise investment and pricing strategies. Sunk costs in economic geography have been considered as an ingredient of firm behaviour, an analytical device linking …
Spatial Variations in Net Entry Rates of Establishments in Greek Manufacturing Industries: An Application of the Shift-Share Anova Model
Net entry rates of manufacturing establishments across Greek regions are examined here by means of both an appropriately modified conventional shift-share method and a linear-model variant. All results accord with earlier findings for UK regions, signifying that the main source of variation in spatial net entry patterns stems from within-industry variation in locational preferences across space. However, analysis by establishment size indicates t…
Accounting for Net Entry into Greek Manufacturing by Establishments of Varying Size
A Productivity Growth Interpretation of the Labour Demand Shift‐Share Model
GRAHAM D. J. and SPENCE N. (1998) A productivity growth interpretation of the labour demand shift-share model, Reg. Studies 32, 515-525. This paper proposes modifications to the labour demand shift-share model set out in this journal by CASLER, 1989, to allow for its implementation and to extend its use to analyses of regional labour productivity growth. The paper begins by briefly outlining the theoretical basis for the shift-share method provid…
Net Entry of Firms into Greek Manufacturing: The Effects of Business Conditions
Regional Productivity Dynamics of Manufacturing in Greece
Although employment change captures only one dimension of spatially uneven industrial growth, geographers have often tended to treat it as almost the exclusive indicator of regional performance. As a result, it is not infrequently the case that this more or less sole focus on employment, although valuable in itself, produces an incomplete and sometimes some what distorted view of spatial economic change. The case of regional manufacturing restruc…
Competition for Metropolitan Resources: The 'Crowding Out' of London's Manufacturing Industry
In this paper we consider the extent to which manufacturing activity in London in the 1980s has been influenced by a 'crowding-out' effect as a result of the expansion of 'global-city' functions within the capital. First, a brief outline is provided of the concept of the global city and the related interpretations of urban manufacturing change. We then examine the relevance of global-city hypotheses, focusing on three different empirical aspects …
Road transport infrastructure and regional economic development
Modelling Urban-Rural Population Growth in China
The population of China is still growing despite a dramatic decline in fertility in the past two decades. There are marked urban-rural differentials in fertility and, as a result, the pace of urbanization has significant effects on population growth. In this research an attempt is made to model urban-rural population growth in China. A demoeconomic model of urban and rural sectors is calibrated to account for the long-term trend of urbanization i…
Contemporary Deindustrialisation and Tertiarisation in the London Economy
This study provides an empirical examination of recent change in the London economy to assess the degree to which the processes of deindustrialisation and tertiarisation have affected the capital. Three different components of the London economy are considered-output, establishment structure and employment. It is demonstrated that each of these has changed in different ways and that this raises subtle questions as to how deindustrialisation and t…
The Rediscovery of Accessibility and Economic Potential: The Critical Issue of Self-Potential
Economic potential measures of accessibility seem to have been rediscovered in the research literature recently, as well as in research that informs policy formulation. These new applications are using more and more sophisticated sources of data but are in large measure still operationalising the familiar concepts of market potential. Such potential is calculated for any zone by summing the representative economic mass of all other zones in the s…
Evolution of the motorway network and changing levels of accessibility in Great Britain
An Accessibility Analysis of the Impact of the M25 London Orbital Motorway on Britain
LINNEKER B. J. and SPENCE N. A. (1992) An accessibility analysis of the impact of the M25 London Orbital Motorway on Britain, Reg. Studies 26, 31–47. The M25 London Orbital Motorway seems certain to have affected the general levels of accessibility in Britain. The scale and nature of these accessibility changes are however much less clear and the aims of the paper are to attempt to specify them. The methodology involves calibration of market pote…
The Rediscovery of Accessibility and Economic Potential: The Critical Issue of Self-Potential
Economic potential measures of accessibility seem to have been rediscovered in the research literature recently, as well as in research that informs policy formulation. These new applications are using more and more sophisticated sources of data but are in large measure still operationalising the familiar concepts of market potential. Such potential is calculated for any zone by summing the representative economic mass of all other zones in the s…
Global City Characteristics and Central London's Employment
Evolution of the motorway network and changing levels of accessibility in Great Britain
Improving the working environment for workers in children's welfare agencies
Spatial Variations in New Manufacturing Plant Openings: Some Empirical Evidence from Greece
FOTOPOULOS G. and SPENCE N. (1999) Spatial variations in new manufacturing plant openings: some empirical evidence from Greece, Reg. Studies 33 , 219-229. This research deals with the determinants of regional variation in new plant openings in Greek manufacturing industries over the period 1980-91. Key findings of this first detailed attempt to do so in a Greek context relate to the significant direct effects of regional specialization, the exten…
Accessibility Measures Compared in an Analysis of the Impact of the M25 London Orbital Motorway on Britain
A number of established methods exist for measuring levels of accessibility over space. Most notable are those based on market potential and access cost. This research is concerned with the comparison of these methods and the results that they produce in a particular empirical context. Accessibility costs for HGVs by road are measured for 1980s Britain with special reference to the M25 London Orbital Motorway. Specific calculations are made for a…
A multifactor uniform regionalization of British counties on the basis of employment data for 1961
Spence N. A. (1968) A multifactor uniform regionalization of British counties on the basis of employment data for 1961, Reg. Studies 2, 87–104. A more precise approach to the delimitation of regions will ensure a better understanding of specific regional frameworks consistent with their uses in achieving a set of goals. Methods and results of a study of British employment regions in 1961 are presented. The problem is one in efficient multivariate…
Conceptualizing sunk costs in economic geography: Cost recovery and the fluctuating value of fixed capital
Several studies in economic geography have attempted to understand the spatial implications of sunk costs. In this paper it is argued that, although these efforts are most valuable, issues remain that deserve closer examination. The first begs the question whether the introduction of this concept into economic geography has occurred with due regard to the contexts set by the academic fields where the notion originates. If this is not the case, th…
Road transport infrastructure and regional economic development
Modelling Urban-Rural Population Growth in China
The population of China is still growing despite a dramatic decline in fertility in the past two decades. There are marked urban-rural differentials in fertility and, as a result, the pace of urbanization has significant effects on population growth. In this research an attempt is made to model urban-rural population growth in China. A demoeconomic model of urban and rural sectors is calibrated to account for the long-term trend of urbanization i…
Employment Changes in Central London in the 1980s I The Record of the 1980s
Improving the working environment for workers in children’s welfare agencies
The working environment and workplace ecology of children’s welfare agencies is important to the quality of their service provision. In the past, restructuring and professional development and training have been standard responses to changing needs and demands on children’s services but have generally failed to improve the working environment. This research argues that concrete strategies can be developed from a detailed understanding of signific…
Interaction between urban form and mode choice for the work journey: Manchester/Sheffield 1971–1981
Dasgupta M., Frost M. and Spence N. (1985) Interaction between urban form and mode choice for the work journey: Manchester/Sheffield 1971–1981, Reg. Studies 19, 315–328. This paper analyses the intra-city, inter-city and temporal variations in the mode used for the work journey in Manchester and Sheffield. The research examines the interaction between mode choice and urban structure by establishing associations between mode choice and residential…
The Impact of Intangible Assets on Regional Productivity Disparities in Great Britain
During the past few years there has been a growing consensus in the literature that intangible assets represent a major source of productivity growth. Intangibles facilitate the accumulation of knowledge and information via learning and innovation, allowing, in this way, modern economies to improve the efficiency with which they utilise their resources. Nonetheless, despite the proliferation of studies that investigate the territorial impact of i…
Manufacturing Productivity Growth across European Union States: 1978 – 94
This paper explores the sources of rising manufacturing output and labour productivity across thirteen European Union states between 1978 and 1994. Despite the severe deindustrialisation trends of the past two decades, manufacturing output continued to expand and thus contribute to overall economic growth. The analysis here reveals several key aspects of this process. First, the geographical distribution of the sector across Europe for the entire…
Contemporary Deindustrialisation and Tertiarisation in the London Economy
This study provides an empirical examination of recent change in the London economy to assess the degree to which the processes of deindustrialisation and tertiarisation have affected the capital. Three different components of the London economy are considered-output, establishment structure and employment. It is demonstrated that each of these has changed in different ways and that this raises subtle questions as to how deindustrialisation and t…
Policy Responses to Urban and Regional Economic Change in Britain
Regional policy responses were reviewed in the broad context of metropolitan decentralization of population and the continuing disparities in regional unemployment. In spite of the many difficulties surrounding the evaluation of these policies, such as the definition of their nature, the lack of clear and quantifiable objectives and the problem of defining the situation without intervention, evaluations have been attempted. In reviewing these it …
Intangible Investment and Regional Productivity in Great Britain
Melachroinos K. A. and Spence N. Intangible investment and regional productivity in Great Britain, Regional Studies. Investment in intangible assets is considered to be an important driver of territorial competitiveness and wealth creation. Nevertheless, conventional growth accounting analyses treat most intangibles as intermediate expenditure and thus fail to capture the full effect of intangibles on output expansion and productivity dynamics. T…
Competition for Metropolitan Resources: The 'Crowding Out' of London's Manufacturing Industry
In this paper we consider the extent to which manufacturing activity in London in the 1980s has been influenced by a 'crowding-out' effect as a result of the expansion of 'global-city' functions within the capital. First, a brief outline is provided of the concept of the global city and the related interpretations of urban manufacturing change. We then examine the relevance of global-city hypotheses, focusing on three different empirical aspects …
Regional Economic Performance and Sunk Costs
MELACHROINOS K. A. and SPENCE N. (1999) Regional economic performance and sunk costs, Reg. Studies 33 , 843-855. In industrial organization economics sunk costs, defined as unretrievable costs in the case of market exit, are assumed to determine market structure, firm entry and exit, enterprise investment and pricing strategies. Sunk costs in economic geography have been considered as an ingredient of firm behaviour, an analytical device linking …
A Productivity Growth Interpretation of the Labour Demand Shift‐Share Model
GRAHAM D. J. and SPENCE N. (1998) A productivity growth interpretation of the labour demand shift-share model, Reg. Studies 32, 515-525. This paper proposes modifications to the labour demand shift-share model set out in this journal by CASLER, 1989, to allow for its implementation and to extend its use to analyses of regional labour productivity growth. The paper begins by briefly outlining the theoretical basis for the shift-share method provid…
Employment and worktravel in a selection of English inner cities
Energy Consumption and Work-Travel Trips: London, Birmingham, and Manchester, 1981–2001
The changing modal composition and volume of work travel in London, Birmingham, and Manchester and their resultant energy consumption implications are considered in this research. Essentially, the mechanism is to calculate the passenger km travelled by mode and then to apply mode-specific energy consumption parameters to calculate energy consumption. By classifying work-travel trips according to their travel mode and their location and orientatio…
Regional Productivity Dynamics of Manufacturing in Greece
Although employment change captures only one dimension of spatially uneven industrial growth, geographers have often tended to treat it as almost the exclusive indicator of regional performance. As a result, it is not infrequently the case that this more or less sole focus on employment, although valuable in itself, produces an incomplete and sometimes some what distorted view of spatial economic change. The case of regional manufacturing restruc…
A multifactor uniform regionalization of British counties on the basis of employment data for 1961
Spence N. A. (1968) A multifactor uniform regionalization of British counties on the basis of employment data for 1961, Reg. Studies 2, 87–104. A more precise approach to the delimitation of regions will ensure a better understanding of specific regional frameworks consistent with their uses in achieving a set of goals. Methods and results of a study of British employment regions in 1961 are presented. The problem is one in efficient multivariate…
Employment and worktravel in a selection of English inner cities
Policy Responses to Urban and Regional Economic Change in Britain: Discussion
Policy Responses to Urban and Regional Economic Change in Britain
Regional policy responses were reviewed in the broad context of metropolitan decentralization of population and the continuing disparities in regional unemployment. In spite of the many difficulties surrounding the evaluation of these policies, such as the definition of their nature, the lack of clear and quantifiable objectives and the problem of defining the situation without intervention, evaluations have been attempted. In reviewing these it …
Regional policy in Great Britain
Interaction between urban form and mode choice for the work journey: Manchester/Sheffield 1971–1981
Dasgupta M., Frost M. and Spence N. (1985) Interaction between urban form and mode choice for the work journey: Manchester/Sheffield 1971–1981, Reg. Studies 19, 315–328. This paper analyses the intra-city, inter-city and temporal variations in the mode used for the work journey in Manchester and Sheffield. The research examines the interaction between mode choice and urban structure by establishing associations between mode choice and residential…
Employment Changes in Central London in the 1980s I The Record of the 1980s
An Accessibility Analysis of the Impact of the M25 London Orbital Motorway on Britain
LINNEKER B. J. and SPENCE N. A. (1992) An accessibility analysis of the impact of the M25 London Orbital Motorway on Britain, Reg. Studies 26, 31–47. The M25 London Orbital Motorway seems certain to have affected the general levels of accessibility in Britain. The scale and nature of these accessibility changes are however much less clear and the aims of the paper are to attempt to specify them. The methodology involves calibration of market pote…
Accessibility Measures Compared in an Analysis of the Impact of the M25 London Orbital Motorway on Britain
A number of established methods exist for measuring levels of accessibility over space. Most notable are those based on market potential and access cost. This research is concerned with the comparison of these methods and the results that they produce in a particular empirical context. Accessibility costs for HGVs by road are measured for 1980s Britain with special reference to the M25 London Orbital Motorway. Specific calculations are made for a…
Global City Characteristics and Central London's Employment
Evolution of the motorway network and changing levels of accessibility in Great Britain
Contemporary Deindustrialisation and Tertiarisation in the London Economy
This study provides an empirical examination of recent change in the London economy to assess the degree to which the processes of deindustrialisation and tertiarisation have affected the capital. Three different components of the London economy are considered-output, establishment structure and employment. It is demonstrated that each of these has changed in different ways and that this raises subtle questions as to how deindustrialisation and t…
The Rediscovery of Accessibility and Economic Potential: The Critical Issue of Self-Potential
Economic potential measures of accessibility seem to have been rediscovered in the research literature recently, as well as in research that informs policy formulation. These new applications are using more and more sophisticated sources of data but are in large measure still operationalising the familiar concepts of market potential. Such potential is calculated for any zone by summing the representative economic mass of all other zones in the s…
Road transport infrastructure and regional economic development
Modelling Urban-Rural Population Growth in China
The population of China is still growing despite a dramatic decline in fertility in the past two decades. There are marked urban-rural differentials in fertility and, as a result, the pace of urbanization has significant effects on population growth. In this research an attempt is made to model urban-rural population growth in China. A demoeconomic model of urban and rural sectors is calibrated to account for the long-term trend of urbanization i…
Net Entry of Firms into Greek Manufacturing: The Effects of Business Conditions
Regional Productivity Dynamics of Manufacturing in Greece
Although employment change captures only one dimension of spatially uneven industrial growth, geographers have often tended to treat it as almost the exclusive indicator of regional performance. As a result, it is not infrequently the case that this more or less sole focus on employment, although valuable in itself, produces an incomplete and sometimes some what distorted view of spatial economic change. The case of regional manufacturing restruc…
Competition for Metropolitan Resources: The 'Crowding Out' of London's Manufacturing Industry
In this paper we consider the extent to which manufacturing activity in London in the 1980s has been influenced by a 'crowding-out' effect as a result of the expansion of 'global-city' functions within the capital. First, a brief outline is provided of the concept of the global city and the related interpretations of urban manufacturing change. We then examine the relevance of global-city hypotheses, focusing on three different empirical aspects …
Accounting for Net Entry into Greek Manufacturing by Establishments of Varying Size
A Productivity Growth Interpretation of the Labour Demand Shift‐Share Model
GRAHAM D. J. and SPENCE N. (1998) A productivity growth interpretation of the labour demand shift-share model, Reg. Studies 32, 515-525. This paper proposes modifications to the labour demand shift-share model set out in this journal by CASLER, 1989, to allow for its implementation and to extend its use to analyses of regional labour productivity growth. The paper begins by briefly outlining the theoretical basis for the shift-share method provid…
Spatial Variations in New Manufacturing Plant Openings: Some Empirical Evidence from Greece
FOTOPOULOS G. and SPENCE N. (1999) Spatial variations in new manufacturing plant openings: some empirical evidence from Greece, Reg. Studies 33 , 219-229. This research deals with the determinants of regional variation in new plant openings in Greek manufacturing industries over the period 1980-91. Key findings of this first detailed attempt to do so in a Greek context relate to the significant direct effects of regional specialization, the exten…
Regional Economic Performance and Sunk Costs
MELACHROINOS K. A. and SPENCE N. (1999) Regional economic performance and sunk costs, Reg. Studies 33 , 843-855. In industrial organization economics sunk costs, defined as unretrievable costs in the case of market exit, are assumed to determine market structure, firm entry and exit, enterprise investment and pricing strategies. Sunk costs in economic geography have been considered as an ingredient of firm behaviour, an analytical device linking …
Spatial Variations in Net Entry Rates of Establishments in Greek Manufacturing Industries: An Application of the Shift-Share Anova Model
Net entry rates of manufacturing establishments across Greek regions are examined here by means of both an appropriately modified conventional shift-share method and a linear-model variant. All results accord with earlier findings for UK regions, signifying that the main source of variation in spatial net entry patterns stems from within-industry variation in locational preferences across space. However, analysis by establishment size indicates t…
Improving the working environment for workers in children’s welfare agencies
The working environment and workplace ecology of children’s welfare agencies is important to the quality of their service provision. In the past, restructuring and professional development and training have been standard responses to changing needs and demands on children’s services but have generally failed to improve the working environment. This research argues that concrete strategies can be developed from a detailed understanding of signific…
Improving the working environment for workers in children's welfare agencies
Economics (25 works) · Geography (23 works) · Economic geography (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (12 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (10 works) · Regional science (10 works) · Productivity (9 works)