Publications

This evaluation identifies the factors that influenced employment and progression outcomes for participants of the Connecting Communities employment support programme, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the place-based approach to employment support more broadly.

The Institute for Employment Studies has partnered with Phoenix Insights to develop two in-depth reports which analyse women’s finances through the lens of the workplace.

Slides and a webinar recording that introduces our new Commission on the Future of Employment Support.

This report looks at how we can raise employment and address labour market disadvantage for people living in social housing.

In this report IES reviews the literature (available at the time) on methods for investigating the causal impact of policy interventions before identifying those most likely to be relevant to the DWP Employment Data Lab.

This report sets out how the lack of flexible jobs at the point of hire, in particular part-time opportunities, traps certain groups of people out of work or in low-pay – parents, older workers and people with disabilities.

Abbie Winton suggests that as well as looking at pay for a solution to the current recruitment challenges, there is also a need to understand which other parts of the employment offer need to be adapted to make work more appealing to a broader potential pool of workers.

This briefing note sets out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published on 15 November 2022.

This paper is being published to accompany a new Commission on the Future of Employment Support, which IES is providing the secretariat for and is being funded by abrdn Financial Fairness Trust.

This report launches a new Commission on the Future of Employment Support, which IES is providing the secretariat for and is being funded by abrdn Financial Fairness Trust.