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Managing older workers
5 May 2016Demographic changes are increasing the number of older people at work, and legislative changes such as the abolition of the default retirement age, coupled with less advantageous pension arrangements, mean that older workers are less likely to be moving into retirement as early as was previously the case. IES has conducted research into the enabling factors and constraints on employers looking to support those who wish to continue in employment up to and beyond state pensionable age.
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Employers' graduate recruitment and selection practices and the impact on social mobility
5 May 2016Recent work by IES on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills highlights the challenges facing employers when looking to recruit graduates, the approaches they adopt to attract and select graduates and how these have changed over time. The research also contributes pertinent qualitative evidence to the current debates around social mobility and higher education (HE).
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Wage bargaining and pay outcomes in Europe
5 May 2016In the European Union, around two-thirds of workers are covered by some form of collective agreement, pointing towards the importance of wage bargaining for macroeconomic outcomes in the 'European Social Model'. IES undertook research for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions to better understand the effects of the different characteristics of (national) wage bargaining regimes on pay outcomes. Our study delivers new empirical evidence on the impact of bargaining institutions on macroeconomic outcomes, incorporating key features of national wage negotiation systems such as centralisation and coordination.
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Progress of the reform programme: issues raised by the Apprenticeship Trailblazers
5 May 2016The Apprenticeship Trailblazers are the government's key response to the Richard Review, putting employers at the heart of developments in order to increase trust in and uptake of Apprenticeships. IES was involved in tracking the process and experiences of the earliest employer networks that took forward the design of the new Apprenticeship standards.
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Older worker health - a looming crisis?
22 Apr 2016Stephen Bevan discusses what employers can do to tackle the looming problem of older worker health and how our European counterparts are approaching this issue.
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Moving the mountain. Can HR open minds to unlock learning?
18 Apr 2016Amanda Callen debates why employers are reticent to embrace the benefits that adopting a growth mindset can bring.
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Time for employers to take up the social mobility baton from HE
15 Apr 2016As new research confirms that the social mobility gap remains ten years after graduating, Emma Pollard outlines why employers are not doing enough to tackle the problem.
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More apprenticeships, but some are locked out
17 Mar 2016During National Apprenticeships Week, Jonathan Buzzeo discusses the evidence from IES's new research for Centrepoint and whether government policy changes will help the hardest-to-reach young people.
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Gender pay gap reporting: Let's get on with it
8 Mar 2016On International Women's Day, Duncan Brown considers the reactions to the gender pay reporting requirements, and asks why we're not getting started already.