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  • Work Programme Evaluation: Operation of the commissioning model, finance and programme delivery

    Foster S, Metcalf H, Purvis A, Lanceley L, Foster R, Lane P, Tufekci L, Rolfe H, Newton B, Bertram C, Garlick M | Dec 2014 | Department for Work and Pensions

    This report brings together and summarises the main evidence from: the 2013 and 2014 waves of the Work Programme evaluation about the commissioning model, finance and programme delivery; and provider surveys from 2012, 2013 and 2014. The report explores the impact of the commissioning model on the provider market, the operation of the financial model and programme delivery.

  • Evaluation of Day One mandation of prison leavers to the Work Programme

    George A, Metcalf H, Hunter G, Bertram C, Newton B, Skrine O, Turnbull P | Dec 2014 | Department for Work and Pensions

    Since March 2012 prison leavers who make an advance claim to Jobseeker’s Allowance before release, or within 13 weeks of being released, have been referred directly to the Work Programme to receive employment support. This is known as ‘day one mandation’. This report covers: participants’ experiences of making advance benefit claims whilst in prison; participants’ experiences of Work Programme support; and staff perspectives on operating day one mandation.

  • Policy Performance and Evaluation: United Kingdom

    Hadjivassiliou K, Tassinari A, Speckesser S, Swift S, Bertram C | Jun 2015 | CROME, University of Brighton

    This Working Paper on the UK was prepared as part of the Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe (STYLE) project. It seeks to analyse the institutional arrangements structuring youth labour markets in place; provide expert assessment of their effects on young people’s school-to-work transitions; and review policy innovations during and after the Great Recession.

  • Barriers to and triggers of policy innovation and knowledge transfer in the UK

    Hadjivassiliou K P, Tassinari A, Swift S | Aug 2015 | CROME, University of Brighton

    The report presents an exploratory analysis and discussion of the institutional aspects and social learning processes that are in play in the UK in relation to youth-related policies.

  • Assessing the Performance of School-to-Work Transition Regimes in the EU

    Hadjivassiliou K, Tassinari A, Eichhorst W, Wozny F | Oct 2016 | Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)

    This IZA discussion paper jointly researched by IES, Warwick Business School and IZA, aims to respond to questions regarding school-to-work transition programmes following the economic crisis.

  • Increasing the Participation of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Employment: Toolkit

    Jan 2012 | German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

    This report containing IES research outlines the toolkit created as part of the IMPART project. The IMPART project aimed investigate how the European Social Fund (ESF) could best support projects aimed at increasing the participation of migrants and ethnic minorities in employment.

  • Using behavioural insights to examine benefit claimants' approaches to training opportunities

    Gloster R, Bertram C, Buzzeo J, Fletcher L, Tassinari A, Cox A, Vlaev I | Jul 2017 | Department for Education

    This study explored the training decisions of benefit claimants in the context of Skills Conditionality and mandation, with the aim of improving attendance at training and ensuring that training opportunities for benefit claimants are based on an understanding of their motivations and the other factors that influence behaviour.

  • Discrimination and access to employment for female workers with disabilities

    Lodovici M S, Orlando N | Jun 2017 | European Parliament

    This study containing IES research considers the access of women with disabilities to the labour market in Europe, in order to assess how multiple discrimination, in this case gender and disability, affects the employment opportunities of women with disabilities.

  • Discrimination and access to employment for female workers with disabilities: Case study: United Kingdom

    Lodovici M S, Orlando N | Jun 2017 | European Parliament

    This country case study containing IES research considers the the access of women with disabilities to the UK labour market.

  • Evaluation of the Carers in Employment (CiE) Project: Methodological details and tabular findings

    Evaluation of the Carers in Employment (CiE) Project: Methodological details and tabular findings

    Wilson S, Marvell R, Gonzalez-Carreras F | Jan 2018 | Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

    This document presents a technical annex to the IES evaluation of the Carers in Employment (CiE) project. It contains methodological details of interviews conducted as part of the IES evaluation and tabular summaries of monitoring data collected at interim and final stages of the evaluation.