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As people live for longer and the State Pension age rises, understanding how working lives can be extended in ways which are both sustainable and rewarding has become an increasingly important issue for individuals, employers and policy makers. This study examined how people in their 60s successfully reshaped work to extend their career, on terms which suited their changing needs and priorities.
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The former Department for Business and Trade commissioned this research which aims to inform policy decisions to improve job security, workplace practice and employer awareness of their responsibilities towards pregnant women and parents in the workplace.
Running an effective board in a private, public or voluntary sector organisation is not easy but has the potential to have a major impact on the success of the whole organisation. Each sector brings its own unique challenges, priorities and sets of stakeholders, resulting in different agendas, but there are also many commonalities in terms of good governance and board effectiveness. This paper brings together useful insights into the possible pitfalls and challenges, and offers approaches for unleashing the potential of any organisation's board.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) underpin many aspects of modern living, so for the 10 million disabled people in the UK access to ICT is an important factor in their quality of life. This POSTnote summarises the issues that disabled people face in using ICT and looks at progress towards achieving equivalent access to services for disabled and non-disabled users.
This publication was authored by Tony Wilson before he joined IES.
This paper estimates separately the (i) earnings, (ii) employment and (iii) benefit premiums secured by those who achieve their highest learning aim whilst studying at an English Further Education Institution (FEI), relative to those who have the same highest learning aim, but do not achieve.
The first issue for 2012 includes: macroeconomic trends and prospects; job creation and job losses at a glance (1/1/-31/3/2012); sectoral distribution of job losses/job gains, and top five cases; filling the 'Nokia gap' in Jucu, Romania; restructuring support measures under the spotlight; restructuring in the pharmaceutical sector; and life and work after the offshoring of a clothing factory in Wales.
