Paul Seaman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5442589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Seaman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Seaman |
| SIGNATURE | SEAMAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dundee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Living Wage
This article examines the theoretical underpinning of living wage campaigns. The article uses evidence, derived from the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey from 2005 to 2008, to examine the extent to which a living wage will address low pay within the labour force. We highlight the greater incidence of low pay within the private sector and then focus upon the public sector where the living wage demand has had most impact. The article builds upon th…
Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland
Social justice and social policy in Scotland offers a critical engagement with the state of social policy in one of the devolved nations of the UK, a decade after the introduction of devolution. Promoting greater social justice has been held up as a key vision of successive Scottish administrations since devolution began. It is argued throughout this important book that the analysis of Scottish social policy must therefore be located in wider deb…
Devolution as a Policy Crucible
The election of the Scottish government, in May 2007, raised expectations that devolution may at last give rise to a sea change in the development of welfare policy. Certainly, in the areas of education and health the newly elected Scottish National Party (SNP) Scottish government, despite its minority control of the parliament, lost no time in announcing significant changes to previous policies in the areas of hospital closures and primary schoo…
Devolution and Entrenched Household Poverty
The Scottish National Party led Scottish Government has identified household poverty as a key focus for its anti-poverty strategy. The government's ‘Solidarity Target’ seeks to both increase wealth and increase the share of total income gained by the bottom three deciles. The ability to demonstrate the advantages of policy divergence within Scotland, relative to the other parts of the United Kingdom, is central to the government's aim of gaining …
The Question of Economic Growth and Inequality in Contemporary Scotland
The OECD has been forecasting for some time that the U K economy wil l be in recession in 2009 (OECD 2008a, Table 1, p.3).1 Even its earlier, more optimistic, June 2008 forecast of 1.8% GDP growth for 2008 was based on increasing the rate of growth of government expenditure on consumption goods from 1.9% to 2.3% between 2007 and 2008 and a rise in government's gross fixed investment from 4.2% to 6.3%. Th is is at a time when growth in private con…
Devolution and inequality
This paper assesses the impact of devolution within the United Kingdom on household equality in terms of both income and social inclusion, with particular focus on the two most established examples of devolution – Scotland and Wales. Uniquely this paper provides the first quantitative assessment of devolution in the UK. Using British Household Panel Study data it suggests that devolution appears to have had no discernable impact on income inequal…
Universal versus Targeted Benefits
UK government policy over the past thirty years has seen a movement away from universal provision of welfare towards the targeting of welfare. The advent of devolution in Scotland, and to a lesser degree Wales, has, however, created new policy forums in which the shift towards targeted benefits has been reversed in a number of important fields. Welfare provision in relation to children is a further key area in which this policy debate has emerged…
Devolution and inequality
This paper assesses the impact of devolution within the United Kingdom on household equality in terms of both income and social inclusion, with particular focus on the two most established examples of devolution – Scotland and Wales. Uniquely this paper provides the first quantitative assessment of devolution in the UK. Using British Household Panel Study data it suggests that devolution appears to have had no discernable impact on income inequal…
The Living Wage
This article examines the theoretical underpinning of living wage campaigns. The article uses evidence, derived from the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey from 2005 to 2008, to examine the extent to which a living wage will address low pay within the labour force. We highlight the greater incidence of low pay within the private sector and then focus upon the public sector where the living wage demand has had most impact. The article builds upon th…
Devolution as a Policy Crucible
The election of the Scottish government, in May 2007, raised expectations that devolution may at last give rise to a sea change in the development of welfare policy. Certainly, in the areas of education and health the newly elected Scottish National Party (SNP) Scottish government, despite its minority control of the parliament, lost no time in announcing significant changes to previous policies in the areas of hospital closures and primary schoo…
Devolution and Entrenched Household Poverty
The Scottish National Party led Scottish Government has identified household poverty as a key focus for its anti-poverty strategy. The government's ‘Solidarity Target’ seeks to both increase wealth and increase the share of total income gained by the bottom three deciles. The ability to demonstrate the advantages of policy divergence within Scotland, relative to the other parts of the United Kingdom, is central to the government's aim of gaining …
The Question of Economic Growth and Inequality in Contemporary Scotland
The OECD has been forecasting for some time that the U K economy wil l be in recession in 2009 (OECD 2008a, Table 1, p.3).1 Even its earlier, more optimistic, June 2008 forecast of 1.8% GDP growth for 2008 was based on increasing the rate of growth of government expenditure on consumption goods from 1.9% to 2.3% between 2007 and 2008 and a rise in government's gross fixed investment from 4.2% to 6.3%. Th is is at a time when growth in private con…
Universal versus Targeted Benefits
UK government policy over the past thirty years has seen a movement away from universal provision of welfare towards the targeting of welfare. The advent of devolution in Scotland, and to a lesser degree Wales, has, however, created new policy forums in which the shift towards targeted benefits has been reversed in a number of important fields. Welfare provision in relation to children is a further key area in which this policy debate has emerged…
Devolution and inequality
This paper assesses the impact of devolution within the United Kingdom on household equality in terms of both income and social inclusion, with particular focus on the two most established examples of devolution – Scotland and Wales. Uniquely this paper provides the first quantitative assessment of devolution in the UK. Using British Household Panel Study data it suggests that devolution appears to have had no discernable impact on income inequal…
Devolution and Entrenched Household Poverty
The Scottish National Party led Scottish Government has identified household poverty as a key focus for its anti-poverty strategy. The government's ‘Solidarity Target’ seeks to both increase wealth and increase the share of total income gained by the bottom three deciles. The ability to demonstrate the advantages of policy divergence within Scotland, relative to the other parts of the United Kingdom, is central to the government's aim of gaining …
The Question of Economic Growth and Inequality in Contemporary Scotland
The OECD has been forecasting for some time that the U K economy wil l be in recession in 2009 (OECD 2008a, Table 1, p.3).1 Even its earlier, more optimistic, June 2008 forecast of 1.8% GDP growth for 2008 was based on increasing the rate of growth of government expenditure on consumption goods from 1.9% to 2.3% between 2007 and 2008 and a rise in government's gross fixed investment from 4.2% to 6.3%. Th is is at a time when growth in private con…
Devolution as a Policy Crucible
The election of the Scottish government, in May 2007, raised expectations that devolution may at last give rise to a sea change in the development of welfare policy. Certainly, in the areas of education and health the newly elected Scottish National Party (SNP) Scottish government, despite its minority control of the parliament, lost no time in announcing significant changes to previous policies in the areas of hospital closures and primary schoo…
Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland
Social justice and social policy in Scotland offers a critical engagement with the state of social policy in one of the devolved nations of the UK, a decade after the introduction of devolution. Promoting greater social justice has been held up as a key vision of successive Scottish administrations since devolution began. It is argued throughout this important book that the analysis of Scottish social policy must therefore be located in wider deb…
The Living Wage
This article examines the theoretical underpinning of living wage campaigns. The article uses evidence, derived from the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey from 2005 to 2008, to examine the extent to which a living wage will address low pay within the labour force. We highlight the greater incidence of low pay within the private sector and then focus upon the public sector where the living wage demand has had most impact. The article builds upon th…
Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (4 works) · Devolution (biology (3 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works) · Inequality (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works)