01192pab a2200145 454500008004000000100001600040245004900056260000900105300001400114362000800128520084000136650002700976700001601003773002701019180718b1999   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aWren, Colin  aIndustrial restructuring and regional policy  c1999  ap.487-516  aJul  aThe paper examines the changing regional specialisation of UK employment over the period 1971-94, analysing the extent to which UK regional policy has altered the industrial structure of the Assisted Area regions, making them less vulnerable to economic change. All regional economies are found to have become more specialised, but industry has become less geographically concentrated leading to a convergence of regional industrial structures towards the national pattern of employment. These trends are stronger in the Assisted Areas, and have been promoted by the operation of regional policy, but the major policy effect occurs through the large-scale capital grants which have accelerated the employment decline of the traditional manufacturing industries in which the Assisted Areas were relatively over-represented. - Reproduced  aIndustrial development  aTaylor, Jim  aOxford Economic Papers