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Anne Green

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Professor of Regional Economic Development, City-REDI, University of Birmingham. Interested in the geography of labour markets, employment, non-employment, migration, commuting, skills, local economic development, public policy, etc.

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City-REDI @city-redi.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

🎉 Thrilled to share that City-REDI's @anne-e-green.bsky.social has been honoured with the 2025 @regstud.bsky.social Distinguished Service to Regional Studies Award for her outstanding contributions to regional economic development and service to the field! 🌍🏆 www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-rs...

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City-REDI @city-redi.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

📊 New report reveals a growing mismatch in R&D skills—employers face hard-to-fill vacancies amid rising demand for digital, AI, and automation expertise. www.gov.uk/government/p...

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R&D skills supply and demand: workforce trends and projections

An analysis of research and development (R&D) workforce trends, characteristics and skills demand in the UK.

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

As well as the full #workingfromhome project report, the findings are broken down into 5 policy briefings First @anne-e-green.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social reviews evidence on changing work patterns & labour mobility, effects on UK economic geography & policy www.cpc.ac.uk/docs/PB83_Re...

CPC-CG Policy Briefing 83 front cover from May 2025

Regional differentials, changing working patterns and high-skilled labour mobility: An overview

There are ongoing policy concerns around regional inequalities, productivity weakness and the underperformance of the UK’s second-tier cities. Human capital (the knowledge, skills, experiences and attributes of the workforce) is an important factor for the economic and social well-being of people and places. The
geographically uneven distribution of high-skilled labour has been identified as a major contributor to regional inequalities.
The migration of young people to university, followed by job-related moves of graduates and high-skilled workers, leads to a concentration of high-skilled labour in London, the Greater South East and in large cities. The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated pre-existing trends in the take-up of remote/hybrid/home working with
the potential to alter the economic geography of the UK.

This briefing reviews evidence from the UK and abroad on changing working patterns and high-skilled labour mobility, their potential for reshaping the UK’s economic geography, and the associated challenges for policy

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ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

And for the full analysis and findings, explore the #workingfromhome project report www.cpc.ac.uk/docs/2025_Wo... @standrewssgsd.bsky.social @dmuleicester.bsky.social @anne-e-green.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social @jackiewahba.bsky.social @arminegh.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

Image shows front cover of the ESRC Centre for Population Change Report: Working from home: Impacts on residential mobility and spatial inequality

The report cover has an image of Birmingham Centenary Square, Image credit istock.com/holgs 2022.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The propensity of individuals to work from home (WFH) all or some of the time (known as remote
and hybrid working respectively) has proliferated since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in early
2020. The growth of WFH has been particularly pronounced amongst skilled workers. The rise of
WFH, in effectively decoupling the geography of home and work, in theory presents opportunities
for addressing regional inequalities. In the UK case this would involve the redistribution of human
capital and economic activity from areas with ‘overheating’ property markets to other relatively
affordable parts of the country, thus producing a more equitable distribution of human capital and
productive economic activity.
The main objective of this research is to elucidate the relationship between WFH and residential
mobility amongst skilled workers and to consider its implications for spatial inequalities. The analysis
draws on the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) and a three-city case study approach to
assess how the rise of WFH has influenced residential mobilities and the distribution of human
capital in the UK.
The investigation concludes that the types of places that were doing relatively well pre-pandemic
have continued to do so post-pandemic in terms of their ability to attract and retain human capital.
The residential mobility of skilled human capital has not been drastically changed by the rise in WFH.
The potential for WFH to transform spatial inequalities is thus limited.
This paper also contains critical reflections on the availability of secondary quantitative data to
address these important policy topics and offers some recommendations in this respect.

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