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IES colleagues honoured in ‘most Influential’ HR list
1 Jul 2022We are extremely proud to congratulate not one but two IES colleagues
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June Labour Market Statistics: Comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
14 Jun 2022This is really grim news on pay and is only likely to get worse. Despite the tightest labour market on record, nominal pay is broadly flat meaning that rocketing inflation is leading to the largest cuts in real pay in at least two decades.
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May Labour Market Statistics: Comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
17 May 2022There’s some good news in today’s figures, with record pay growth in the private sector just about keeping wages ahead of inflation, and unemployment continuing to fall to its lowest since 1974.
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IES launches new Trials Unit to help organisations test and apply evidence of ‘what works’ in public policy and workplace practice
26 Apr 2022IES is pleased to announce the launch of a new Trials Unit, dedicated to supporting organisations to test and evaluate new approaches and apply evidence of what works.
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April Labour Market Statistics: Comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
12 Apr 2022This morning’s Labour Market Statistics are disappointing overall (again). The further sharp fall in unemployment disguises an unexpectedly large rise in the number of people out of work and not looking for work.
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March Labour Market Statistics: Comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
15 Mar 2022This morning’s Labour Market Statistics, covering October 2021 to January 2022, continue to disappoint. A further sharp fall in unemployment, now close to its pre-pandemic record, has masked a further growth in ‘economic inactivity’ as the labour force has continued to shrink overall.
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February Labour Market Statistics: Comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
15 Feb 2022Despite vacancies hitting another record high, employment is still stuck more than half a million below pre-pandemic levels, with low unemployment appearing to be the result of people leaving the labour market entirely.
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January Labour Market Statistics: Comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
18 Jan 2022Today’s jobs figures are disappointing. Despite record vacancies, employment is unchanged on the figures reported last month while economic inactivity appears to be rising.
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December Labour Market Statistics: Comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
14 Dec 2021On the face of it, today’s figures are some rare good news for the government, with unemployment now dropping fast towards pre-crisis levels, employment rising and more than twice as many vacancies as there were last Christmas.
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November Labour Market Statistics: Comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
16 Nov 2021We’ve never seen jobs being filled at a faster rate than now, with three quarters of a million people starting a new job every month since Covid restrictions were eased.