Employment Studies

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Issue 27, Summer 2018

• A big juggle: what can employers and policymakers do to support working carers?

• Returning to work after having a child: how families make decisions

• Evaluation of the NHS Innovation Accelerator

• 50 years on from IES' foundation and some Directorial reflections 

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Issue 26, Winter 2017

• Segmenting the UK's self-employed workforce

• Developing inclusive approaches to supporting disabled students in higher education

• Preparing for technical education routes in England

• Are compassionate organisations a possibility?

• Conducting a detailed workforce analysis for Cancer Research UK

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Issue 25, Spring 2017

• The challenges of an ageing workforce

• Foreign-born workers in the UK

• The challenge of employee financial capability

• Flexible higher education - is there a market for accelerated degrees?

• The benefits of vocational education for low-achieving school leavers

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Issue 24, Summer 2016

• NHS nurses: filling the recruitment gap

• Assessing risk of precariousness in work

• Will the Youth Obligation work for disadvantaged young people?

• The benefits of cycling to work

• Improving young people's employability

• The Blue Light programme: Support for emergency services

• IES Viewpoint: UK employment and Brexit: the issues

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Issue 23, Spring 2016

• Progress of the reform programme: issues raised by the Apprenticeship Trailblazers

• Wage bargaining and pay outcomes in Europe

• Employers' graduate recruitment and selection practices and the impact on social mobility

• Managing older workers

• Behavioural insights for organisations

• IES Honorary Fellowship launch

• IES Viewpoint: Plus ça change

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Issue 22, Winter 2015

• Risk Management with a Smile! Getting an early start on health and safety

• Supporting students with mental health issues

• Impact of market integration on employment conditions in road haulage

• The difference managers can make to workplace health

• IES Honorary Fellowship launch

• Vocational Education Research at IES

• IES Viewpoint: Is work getting worse, and worse for the workers?

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Issue 21, Spring 2015

• The impact of intra-EU mobility on UK public services

• Flexible working remains a mainstay of the UK labour market

• Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in further education

• Assistant practitioners in the NHS

• Working together to prevent risk

• The UK labour market after recession and austerity: normal business resumed?

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Issue 20, Autumn 2014

• Evaluation of the Youth Contract for 16-17 year-olds

• Occupational Health and Safety Management Tools: A review for EU-OSHA

• The benefits of using mediation to resolve workplace conflict

• Integrated working in the public sector

• Improving working conditions in the hairdressing sector

• IES Viewpoint: Productivity puzzles and poor performance

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Issue 19, Spring 2014

• Encouraging employers to take on apprentices

• Making apprenticeships more inclusive

• Managing restructuring – is legal regulation necessary?

• Working while studying

• Labour migration from the EU in hard times

• IES examines take-up of business support by rural employers

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Issue 18 (Summer 2013)

Please note, this online version of issue 18 supersedes the printed version, due to an error printed on p7, where a graph was ommitted.

• IES Viewpoint: When can we expect some light at the end of the UK jobs tunnel?

• ESF-supported apprenticeship schemes in EU member states

• Apprenticeship systems in international comparison

• The development of apprentice wages and the impact of the new apprentice rate of the National Minimum Wage

• The Healthy Youth Centre pilot: promoting healthy lifestyles in a youth centre setting

• Fit note study indicates rise of mental health disorders

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Issue 17 (Spring 2013)

• IES Viewpoint: Towards a more entrepreneurial workforce?

• The Work Programme: what’s inside the Black Box?

• IES conference report: The value of higher education: from higher skills pipeline to social mobility passport

• Temporary work – stepping stone or dead end?

• Traineeship provision around Europe

• Involving the workforce in health and safety

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Issue 16 (Autumn 2012)

• IES Viewpoint: Employment Law and the evidence base

• Insights into sector skills needs

• Managing workers affected by cancer in SMEs

• Is the future for young people part-time HE?

• Using flexicurity to support specific groups of workers at company level

• Improving care for dementia sufferers through new technology

• Public sector use of collective conciliation

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Issue 15 (Spring 2012)

• IES Viewpoint: Lies, damned lies and migration statistics

• Leadership and worker involvement on the Olympic Park

• Getting people fit for work

• Tackling child poverty through increasing employability for parents

• The development of wages and productivity and the impact on national competitiveness in the EU

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Issue 14 (August 2011)

• NEET or not: volunteering a new way forward

• The Safe Learner

• Understanding employees' behaviour during workplace conflict

• Evaluating Get Connected

• SMEs and their strategies for coping with recession

• IES Viewpoint: The UL labour market: still stuck in the mud?

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Issue 13 (February 2011)

• IES Viewpoint: Policy learning and the role of research

• Understanding the changes in higher education student finance for full-time undergraduates

• Fit for work? Securing the health of the working-age population

• Work, health and well-being research at IES

• Preventing and managing stress at work – practice around Europe

• Jobcentre Plus and ethnic minority customers

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Issue 12 (September 2010)

• Coalition government and the evidence base

• The future for education and skills: the three ‘A’s

• Protecting the health of the working age population

• The Work Programme – Learning from the Past

• The new government and upcoming EU employment issues

• Survey paints picture of creative graduates

• The dangers of working with isocyanate paints

• Healthy Workplaces Milton Keynes

• Evaluation of HSE’s Moving Goods Safely Intervention

  Additional article:

  The case for creative education

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Issue 11 (February 2010)

• IES Viewpoint

• Greening the European economy

• Peer reviews in EU social protection and social inclusion

• The EU response to the economic crisis

• Whither welfare-to-work?

• Comparing national approaches to managing restructuring

• Improving access to work