IES response to the 2018 Autumn Budget
Read our response to the Chancellor's Budget, including our views on announcements relating to mental health, skills and Universal Credit.
UK labour market tightens but wage growth remains sluggish; no turning point in sight
Institute director, Nigel Meager comments on the July release of ONS labour market statistics as the 'inexorable tightening of the UK labour market continues'.
Is the Work Programme working?
Three new reports from the evaluation of the Work Programme have been published by the Department for Work and Pensions.
The Work Programme: what’s inside the Black Box?
The Work Programme is a new, integrated welfare-to-work programme, which was implemented across Great Britain in June 2011. It is commissioned through private and voluntary sector contractors and is designed to provide support to long-term unemployed and inactive people to assist them to gain work.