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This report presents local governments' evidence needs on supporting people to enter and remain in employment, and proposes evidence reviews to address these.
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This report builds on the interim findings published in September 2025 to provide evidence on whether the JobsPlus model can be adapted to the UK context and effectively implemented to improve employment outcomes.
A visual representation of all topics covered at the IES Progression in Employment conference.
The purpose of this report is to estimate the impact of the introduction of the NLW in April 2016 and its successive uprating on employment and hours worked.
This infographic summarises the findings from research conducted by IES into realistic job previews to recruit and retain key professionals. The infographic details best use examples, potential benefits and top tips for employers.
Report to the Office for Students by the Institute for Employment Studies and Researching Equity, Access and Participation
New IES research highlights a job market where young people struggle for secure and rewarding work
New IES research highlights a benefit system failing to support homeless young people in precarious employment.
Stephen Bevan explores the benefits of being an explicitly more ‘conversational’ company in an ever more complex knowledge-based economy.
The report looks at the financial position of higher education students in England in the academic year 2014 to 2015.
This report examines the transition that female Service Leavers (SLs) make from the Armed Forces into civilian paid employment.
The research, led by IES on behalf of RSSB, has found face-to-face and e-learning training to be equally effective methods for training line managers in supporting staff with mental health problems. The study is the first randomised controlled trial of its kind to compare the two mental health training for line managers formats.
