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  Working for the Future

  Launch report for the Commission on the Future of Employment Support

  Wilson T, Patel R, Edwards M, Mason B, Muir D | Nov 2022 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report launches a new Commission on the Future of Employment Support, which IES is providing the secretariat for and is being funded by abrdn Financial Fairness Trust.

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  Work in Progress: Interim report of the Commission on the Future of Employment Support

  Campbell B, Dave A, Patel R, Plowden Roberts C, Wilson T | Jul 2023 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report presents findings from the first six months of the Commission’s work, comprising a major Call for Evidence that received around one hundred responses; twenty consultation events, workshops and focus groups; and an extensive review of the literature around ‘what works’ in employment support.

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  Building opportunity

  How social housing can support skills, talent and workforce development

  Alexander K, Evans S, Wilson T | Dec 2022 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report looks at how we can raise employment and address labour market disadvantage for people living in social housing.

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  Supporting Restart participants into self-employment

  Research report

  Buzzeo J, Dave A | Mar 2024 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report covers the ReAct research into support for Restart participants into self-employment and identifies the gaps and improvements that could be made.

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  European Restructuring Monitor Quarterly - 2011, Issue 3

  Hurley J, Riso S, Salvatore L, Rinawi M, Broughton A | Sep 2011 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

  The economic situation continued to be dominated by sovereign debt problems in the eurozone countries. As these continued to remain unresolved, general sentiment had turned negative amid fears of a new second phase of the Great Recession of 2008–9. Growth outlooks in the developed economies had recently been scaled back with below trend growth forecast for 2011–12. Austerity programmes, which had begun to negatively impact public employment, especially in local and central government administrations, had not thus far been accompanied by the hoped-for handover from public to private demand. Within the EU, there were a number of different labour market stories reflecting very different trajectories during and after the 2008–9 crisis. Unemployment in Spain and Ireland continued to rise while other countries severely affected by the crisis – notably the Baltic states – showed signs of a strong recovery. The German unemployment rate was at its lowest level in nearly twenty years (6%) despite a recent easing of growth while the UK unemployment rates were at an eighteen-year high (8.1%). Meanwhile in Greece unemployment had risen by 4 percentage points in the last twelve months.

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  European Restructuring Monitor Quarterly - 2011, Issue 1

  Hurley J, Riso S, Salvatore L, Miginis M, Parker J, Broughton A | Apr 2011 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

  In this edition of the ERM quarterly, we describe some positive recent developments in the IT sector where looming skill shortages were more of a concern than unemployment. We also showcase a potentially interesting industrial restructuring project at the old Fiat plant at Termini Imerese in Sicily.

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  Labour Market Statistics, November 2021

  IES | Nov 2021 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This briefing note sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published on 16 November 2021.

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  Labour Market Statistics, April 2022

  Apr 2022 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This briefing note sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published on 12 April 2022.

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  Trapped or Flexible? Risk transitions and missing policies for young high-skilled workers in Europe

  Synthesis report

  Orlando N, Samek M, Pesce F, Hadjivassilio K, Higgins T, Rickard C, | Feb 2012 | European Commission

  Young people are far more likely than other groups to be employed in non standard and insecure jobs, independently from their education and skills. Recent changes in the macroeconomic context; the ongoing economic crisis, as well as labour market reforms enhancing flexibility have increased the uncertainty in the labour market for young people, as indicated by the increase in youth unemployment, inactivity and precarious jobs. This project, funded as a pilot project by the European Commission and completed in 2011, provided a detailed examination of the labour market condition of young people with tertiary-level qualifications (ISCED level equal to or greater than 5), who had experienced deskilling and unemployment in recent years. In order to better understand how and to what extent young highly skilled workers in Europe were experiencing job insecurity, the project provided an overview on the European labour market conditions, with a specific focus on Spain, Italy and the UK.

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  Labour Market Statistics, July 2023

  Jul 2023 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This briefing note sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published on 11 July 2023.