The Labour Market Impact of the Run on Northern Rock: Continuity and Evolution in an old Industrial Region

Stuart Dawley (), Neill Marshall (), Andy Pike, Jane Pollard and John Tomaney ()

No 1109, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) from Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography

Abstract: The Northern Rock mortgage bank was a high profile casualty of the credit crunch in 2007. A longitudinal investigation focused on the redundancy and resettlement of employees at the bank provides a case study of the labour market impact of the banking crisis on the North East of England. An evolutionary geographical political economy approach indicates that Northern RockÕs growth and decline was shaped by its location in an old industrial region, and echoes the historical position of the peripheral region in the spatial division of labour. The Northern Rock case highlights the enduring occupational structure of the regionÕs labour market, and suggests older industrial regions may suffer from a process of Ôoccupational disadvantageÕ that restricts their ability to adapt to economic change.

Keywords: Financial crisis; Northern Rock; Labour market impact; Evolutionary geographical political economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2011-06, Revised 2011-06
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