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Facing up to the foundational economy: regional development, public policy and employment in Wales (2025)
Journal Article
Sissons, P., & Green, A. (in press). Facing up to the foundational economy: regional development, public policy and employment in Wales. Regional Studies, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2024.2435521

There has been increasing interest in Foundational Economy (FE) ideas, with academics seeing the FE as a way of thinking radically differently about local development. Amongst policymakers, the Welsh Government has been a leader in exploring ways to... Read More about Facing up to the foundational economy: regional development, public policy and employment in Wales.

Impacts of Long COVID on workers: a longitudinal study of employment exit, work hours and mental health in the UK (2024)
Journal Article
Reuschke, D., Houston, D., & Sissons, P. (2024). Impacts of Long COVID on workers: a longitudinal study of employment exit, work hours and mental health in the UK. PLoS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306122

Background
The COVID-19 pandemic has had enormous implications for the world of work. However, there has been relatively little focus on the employment and workforce challenges of the virus in relation to workforce health, beyond the immediate manag... Read More about Impacts of Long COVID on workers: a longitudinal study of employment exit, work hours and mental health in the UK.

The local low skills equilibrium: Moving from concept to policy utility (2021)
Journal Article
Sissons, P. (2021). The local low skills equilibrium: Moving from concept to policy utility. Urban Studies, 58(8), 1543-1560. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020915859

It is more than three decades since the publication of Finegold and Soskice’s (1988) influential article ‘The failure of training in Britain: Analysis and prescription’. This widely cited publication popularised the notion of the low skills equilibri... Read More about The local low skills equilibrium: Moving from concept to policy utility.