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Employers do not discriminate between foreign-born and UK-born candidates
10 Oct 2016IES report finds that there is little evidence of key UK sectors targeting foreign-born workers specifically, even in the case of hard-to-fill vacancies.
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Meaningful work. Part 2: How to destroy the meaning of work
6 Oct 2016Professor Katie Bailey considers factors which can encourage a sense of meaningless at work and describes how this sentiment presents itself to employees.
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Meaningful work. Part 1: Where can we find it?
29 Sep 2016In the first of this two-part blog, Professor Katie Bailey considers how jobs can be meaningful and what employers can do to raise levels of meaningfulness in their organisations.
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Higher education in a post-Brexit world
28 Sep 2016Joy Williams outlines the current issues facing higher education in the UK and the surrounding debate following the UK's decision to leave the EU.
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IES Viewpoint: UK employment and Brexit: the issues
27 Sep 2016Nigel Meager, Institute Director, considers the potential impact that Brexit could have on employment and introduces the IES Brexit Observatory.
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The Blue Light Programme: Support for emergency services
27 Sep 2016Kate Spiegelhalter writes on IES' evaluation of Mind's Blue Light programme and the benefits of schemes which work with people who are dealing with mental health issues.
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Improving young people's employability
27 Sep 2016Rosa Marvell considers IES research on behalf of STEMNET looking at the positive impacts that a focus on employability skills can bring to young people.
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The benefits of cycling to work
27 Sep 2016Sam Swift considers the benefits of the Cycle to Work scheme and looks at the wider impacts such schemes could have on UK workers and the economy.
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Will the Youth Obligation work for disadvantaged young people?
27 Sep 2016Jonathan Buzzeo considers the Youth Obligation with a look at IES' evaluation of the DWP's Intensive Activity Programme.
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Assessing risk of precariousness in work
27 Sep 2016Andrea Broughton writes on recent IES research for the European Parliament looking at precarious employment in Europe and the balance between flexibility and protecting the employment rights and terms and conditions of workers.