Publications

Publications graphicWe author and publish a range of resources to keep you up to date with the latest developments in employment, labour market and human resource policy and practice.

All our pdf publications are free to access.

Hold Ctrl or Command to select more than one subject.
 

Search results

  • Thoughts for the day: IES Perspectives on HR 2016

    Feb 2016 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This compilation of bite-sized essays by leading thinkers confronts and expands on existing thinking, plans, and practices in HR and employment. It will help HR leaders think about, plan for, and deal with these ‘known and unknown unknowns’, challenging modern fads, reinforcing some long-standing truths and offering original and practical insights.

  • Shared Parental Leave: Take-up levels, different approaches, and the keys to successful implementation

    Mercer M | Feb 2016 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Conversations with our HR Network members, and recent studies give us an insight into the implementation and take-up of Shared Parental Leave, and the issues that organisations have faced in trying to get it right.

  • What works for the labour market integration of youth at risk

    High Level Learning Exchange on ‘Designing and implementing effective strategies to support the integration and retention in the labour market of youth at risk’

    Hadjivassiliou K | Feb 2016 | European Commission

    This thematic paper was prepared for the high level Learning Exchange on 'Designing and implementing effective strategies to support the integration and retention in the labour market of youth at risk'.

  • Factors facilitating or constraining interventions to protect and promote health of older workers and to help plan and prepare for retirement

    Cox A, Hillage J, Marvell R, Swift S, Taskila T, Bajorek Z, Hind A, Brine J  | Sep 2015 | National Institute for health and Care Excellence (NICE)

    This report presents the third of the three reviews based on qualitative, non-intervention studies which examined factors which enable constrain employers in implementing workplace policies and practices to: protect and promote the wellbeing of older workers, support workers who wish to continue in employment up to and beyond state pensionable age, and affect the quality and outcomes of pre-retirement planning.

  • The effectiveness and cost effectiveness of ways to help older workers plan and prepare for retirement

    Cox A, Hillage J, Marvell R, Swift S, Taskila T, Bajorek Z, Hind A, Brine J  | Sep 2015 | National Institute for health and Care Excellence (NICE)

    This report presents the second of three reviews based on effectiveness studies which examined workplace policies and practices on pre-retirement planning.

  • The effectiveness and cost effectiveness of methods of protecting and promoting the health of older workers

    Cox A, Hillage J, Fletcher L, Marvell R, Wilson S, Miller L, Swift S, Taskila T, Bajorek Z, Hind A, Brine J  | Sep 2015 | National Institute for health and Care Excellence (NICE)

    This report presents the first of three reviews based on effectiveness studies which examined workplace policies and practices in place to protect and promote the health and wellbeing of older workers, and support workers who wish to continue in employment up to and beyond state pensionable age.

  • Pay in Europe in different wage-bargaining regimes

    Speckesser S, Nafilyan V, Ledermaier S | Sep 2015 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound)

    Using a large set of empirical macroeconomic data from a variety of sources, including Eurofound and the European Commission AMECO database, this report analyses how the institutional features of national wage bargaining regimes influence pay outcomes

  • Shared Parental Leave: The new regulations in a nutshell

    Mercer M | Mar 2015 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This paper offers a concise summary of the key facts you need to implement the new Shared Parental Leave and Pay regulations. It also offers an insight into the questions being asked by employers, and what they are doing to address the issues raised.

  • Reasonable Accommodation and Sheltered Workshops for People with Disabilities

    Costs and Returns of Investments

    Mallender J, Liger Q, Tierney R, Beresford D, Eager J, Speckesser A, Nafilyan V | Jan 2015 | European Parliament

    IES participated in this extensive study on costs and returns on investment in measures to improve the labour market situation of disabled people. Our particular focus was on estimating the impact of regulatory reform in the longer term, updating previous impact studies.

  • Benign Neglect? Policies to Support Upward Mobility for Immigrants in the United Kingdom

    Marangozov R | Oct 2014 | Migration Policy Institute

    This report assesses how effectively integration policies in the United Kingdom are helping migrants advance into middle-skilled jobs from low-skilled work or unemployment, focusing in particular on employment services, ESOL, and vocational training.