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Two Become One: The Integration of Male and Female Labour Markets in the English and Welsh Coalfields

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B eatty C. Two become one: the integration of male and female labour markets in the English and Welsh Coalfields, Regional Studies . This paper explores the extent to which the labour markets for men and women are becoming integrated as a single entity. It does so in the specific context of the English and Welsh coalfields, where major job losses in the coal industry fell almost exclusively on men. Using data from 1981 to 2008, the paper presents 'labour market accounts' for the coalfields that reveal changing female labour force participation and employment, and it compares these trends with those among men in the same places. Evidence emerges of two relatively independent labour markets - male and female - operating in the 1980s in the same geographic space. However, over time a degree of integration appears to have occurred. As a result, women increasingly have to compete with men for the same jobs and a greater proportion of new job opportunities in the former coalfields are now going to men.

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  • Christina Beatty, 2016. "Two Become One: The Integration of Male and Female Labour Markets in the English and Welsh Coalfields," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(5), pages 823-834, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:50:y:2016:i:5:p:823-834
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2014.943713
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    1. Paula Walk & Isabell Braunger & Josephine Semb & Carolin Brodtmann & Pao-Yu Oei & Claudia Kemfert, 2021. "Strengthening Gender Justice in a Just Transition: A Research Agenda Based on a Systematic Map of Gender in Coal Transitions," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-27, September.
    2. Humphries, Jane & Thomas, Ryah, 2023. "The best job in the world: breadwinning and the capture of household labor in nineteenth and early twentieth-century British coalmining," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 112186, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Christina Beatty & Steve Fothergill, 2023. "The persistence of hidden unemployment among incapacity claimants in large parts of Britain," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 38(1), pages 42-60, February.

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